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Usage Subscription

Review From The Fundamentals Course

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Subscribing To Usage (Bill Determinants)

Usage is periodically sent to the CIS and other systems
A usage subscription (US) must exist before a customer or a SP's
usage can be calculated
The US controls how usage is calculated and the SPs whose
consumption is used to calculate the usage
Via an install event linked to the
MC's device configuration

Electric
US

Electric
SP

12393921

Electric
MC

KWH

GE
Model: 12-A

Usage (Bill Determinants)

UOM / TOU

Usage

kWh / On peak

1200.1 kWh

kWh / Off peak

401.2 kWh

kWh / Shoulder

654.8 kWh

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Bill determinants (usage) are derived

from the final measurements of the MCs
installed at the usage subscription's SPs
during the calculation period

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Final Measurements
Date/Time

Final
Consumption

1-Jan-10 3:00pm

15.1 kWh

1-Jan-10 3:15pm

12.3 kWh

1-Jan-10 3:30pm

14.3 kWh

Multiple Service Points and Multiple MCs

At any instant in time:

A US may be linked to multiple SPs

A SP may be linked to multiple USs

An SP may be linked to a single device configuration

A device configuration may have multiple MCs

During a usage calculation's time-period:

The SPs linked to the US can change (SPs can be added and removed)

The device configurations installed at the SP can change (due to device reconfigurations and meter
exchanges)
The above means that usage can be calculated using multiple SPs and MCs
A meter exchange has occurred at
this SP (i.e., there are multiple
install events for the SP)

12393921
Electric SP
15 Oak St
Electric
US

GE
Model: 12-A

81829121
This US uses
consumption from 2 SPs
located at 2 different
locations

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81829121
KWH

Electric SP
1066 Maple Drive

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KWH

GE
Model: 12-A

KWH

GE
Model: 12-A

A Usage Subscription Has Contacts

A contact exists for every individual or business related to a usage subscription
A US may have 0 to many contacts

0 is possible when the subscription is not related to a customer's

consumption
A contact may be referenced on many USs
A contact has a 1:1 correlation with a "person" in the CIS and the CIS is the
system of record

How contacts are kept in sync with the CIS is described in the Advanced Course

Main Customer
ABC Supply

Electric SP
15 Oak St
Electric US
Electric SP
1066 Maple Drive

Billing Contact
John Carlos
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Service Providers
The service point chapter described how service providers can
be associated with a market and/or the SPs in a market
Recall that this information is optional and typically only set
up in deregulated markets
USs, on the other hand, must reference a service provider
This is the identity of the subscribing system
In other words, an implementation must set up a service
provider for systems that subscribe to bill determinants
The service provider can be defined on the US type and
overridden on the US (seldom required, but possible)

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Tables and MOs

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Service
Provider

Defines the types of SPs that

can be linked to its USs

SP Type

Valid SP Type

US Type
CH, X

Foreshadowing: defines
override values for factor
(variables) referenced in
bill determinant rules

Fallback

Valid Service
Provider

The subscribing
system
Factor

Override

Valid Usage
Calc Group

Factor Override
Usage
Subscription
ST, CH, X

US Type /
Usage Group

US / SP
CH, X

Fallback (this is
effective dated)

US / Usage
Group

Usage
Group

Foreshadowing: defines
how bill determinants
(usage) is calculated

US / Identifier

One or more SPs

is related to a US
SP

US / Contact

Override (this is
effective dated)

US Contact
Relationship
Type

US Identifier
Type

One or more
contacts is
related to a US

A US may have
many forms of ID

SP/Contact

Legend
Contact Type
CH, X

Contact
CH, X

Contact Name

A contact may have many

names, phones, email
addresses, and forms of
identification

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Contact
Identifier

Contact Phone

Contact Email

A contact may
be referenced
directly on a SP
(e.g., a site
manager)

Trans. Data
Admin Data
Master Data
FW Data
MO Boundary

Contact Name
Type

Contact
Identifier Type

Contact Phone
Type

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Contact Email
Type

Described
elsewhere
ST - Status
CH - Characteristics
X - CLOB

BO Definition

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BO Definition
Contact and US follow the classic pattern (the master data's
identifying BO is defined on the related admin object and
snapshot on the master data instance at creation time)
Contact

Contact
Type

Business
Object

Business
Object
US

US Type

Legend
Tran. Data
Admin Data
Master Data
FW Data

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Practice 8-1 (15 Minutes)

In this practice, you will design and set up the suite of admin data necessary to
support the following usage subscriptions:

A residential water usage subscription that is linked to your residential

water SP

A residential waste-water usage subscription that is linked to the same

residential water SP

An electric usage subscription that is linked to the your electric SP

These usage subscriptions will be linked to same customer

After the admin data is in place, please create USs and link your residential
water and electric SPs to them

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8-1 Data Overview

This practice will use one of the service
providers that is already set up in demo
(in real life, an implementation would
have to set up a service provider for the
subscriber)

Service
Provider

Fallback

2
SP Type

3
Valid SP Type

Usage
Subscription

US Type

SP
US / SP

US Type /
Usage Group

US / Contact

Legend

Contact Type

Trans. Data

Contact

Admin Data
Master Data
Contact Name

This practice will use one of the

contact types that is already set
up in demo (in real life, an
implementation would have to
set up a contact type)

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Contact
Identifier

Contact Phone

Contact Email

FW Data
MO Boundary
Described
elsewhere
ST - Status
CH - Characteristics
X - CLOB

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8-1 Solution
Contact
1

Navigate to Main / Customer Information / + Contact to

add a new contact. Please select the Person contact type
when prompted.

This field only exists in

demo (it is used to define
the name of the scenario
a contact is associated
with so people can find
use-cases by entering the
scenario name on 360
(in the Name filter)

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Enter a name that you can

remember
Enter a Social Security Number in the format
shown (but use some random numbers rather
than the mask characters)

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8-1 Solution
US Types
2

US Type

Description

Identifying BO

RW-W-RES

RW - Water Residential

Usage Subscription Type

RW-WW-RES

RW - Waste Water Residential

Usage Subscription Type

RW-E-RES

RW - Electric Residential

Usage Subscription Type

Reference your water SP type

Please use the same SP type when setting up the waste water
usage subscription type
Please use the electric residential SP type when setting up the
electric usage subscription type

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8-1 Solution
Usage Subscription
3

Navigate to Main / Usage / + Usage Subscription to add a

new water residential usage subscription. Please select
your RW - Water Residential US type when prompted.

Select your water residential

service point using the search

Repeat for the waste water usage subscription

(using the same water service point).
Repeat for the electric usage subscription. Make
sure to select the electric residential service
point.
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8-1 Solution
Checkpoint
Navigate to 360 Search and enter your customer's Name.

If you've set everything up correctly, your

customer should look as follows. Notice how the
water and waste water usage subscriptions have
a single MC whereas the electric has two (one for
the generated, the other for the consumed).

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Review Questions

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