Maintaining Devices

You use the Device portal is used to display and maintain devices.

Refer to About Meters, About Items, and About Communication Components for additional information about specific types of devices.

You can access the portal by selecting Menu, then Device, then Device. You are brought to a query portal with options for searching. Once your record has been selected you are brought to the maintenance portal to view and maintain the selected record.

The Device portal includes the following zones:

  • Device: defines the basic attributes of the device
  • Device Configuration Overview: lists the device configurations for the device
  • Device Activities: lists activities related to the device in date descending order
  • Device Events: lists the most recent device events associated to the device in descending order
  • Device Exceptions: lists the first 50 VEE exceptions for all measuring components for the device, sorted by the exception creation date in descending order
  • Device Characteristics: displays characteristics defined for the device. To add device characteristics, click the Edit link in the zone title bar.
    Note: Only characteristics of types defined for the device’s type in the Valid Device Characteristic Types zone on the Device Type portal can be defined for the device.
Note: When asset management functionality is installed with Oracle Utilities Customer Cloud Service or Oracle Utilities Customer To Meter, devices are maintained using the Device tab of the Asset portal (see Maintaining Assets).

Assets and Devices

In Oracle Utilities Meter To Customer, devices are created when an asset is created (or replicated) The type of device created is based on the template device identified in the Configuration Mapping section of the specification referenced on the asset or associated with the asset type.

Device identifiers for devices created via an asset can not be changed in the Device portal. These identifiers must be changed in the Asset portal.

Devices created via an asset can not be deleted in the Device portal. If a device’s related asset is deleted in the Asset portal., the device is deleted as well.