Enhanced meter management solution
AssigneeCognizant Technology Solutions U.S. Corporation
InventorsChristopher Bui, Alon Raskin, Jagathguru Chandrasekharan, William Edens
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Abstract
A method includes receiving, from a first head end system (HES), a first raw file including a first set of events in a first HES specific format, and modifying the first set of events in the first raw file by a first HES adapter to create a first unified formatted file. The first unified formatted file is in a unified format, and the first HES adapter is connected to the first HES. The method further include transforming, by a core HES adapter, the first unified formatted file to a first data management formatted file according to a data management format, and consuming the first data management formatted file.
Claims20
A method comprising:
- receiving, by a central computer system executing a customer information system (CIS), a first raw file comprising a plurality of usage data in terms of meter reads;
- determining, by the CIS, whether the meter reads exist for meters not saved in the meter database;
- storing, by the CIS, a raw version of the plurality of usage data in a meter database;
- converting, by the CIS, the plurality of usage data to a data management format;
- storing, by the CIS, in the database, the plurality of usage data in the data management format;
- framing, by the CIS, the plurality of usage data in the data management format by aggregating the meter reads into two buckets relating to peak and off peak usage, wherein the framing includes mapping to a Time of Use (TOU) structure, and wherein framing procedures are assigned at a level of:
- register/channel, meter program, rate category and device group;
- and
- billing, by the CIS, a utility's end customers using the plurality of usage data in the data management format, wherein the framing and the billing is decided based on a type and quantity of validation errors.
A system comprising:
- a meter database;
- and
- a computer processor comprising instructions for causing the computer processor to perform operations comprising:
- receiving, by a central computer system executing a customer information system (CIS), a first raw file comprising a plurality of usage data in terms of meter reads;
- determining, by the CIS, whether the meter reads exist for meters not saved in the meter database;
- storing, by the CIS, a raw version of the plurality of usage data in the meter database;
- converting, by the CIS, the plurality of usage data to a data management format,
- storing, by the CIS, in the database, the plurality of usage data in the data management format;
- framing, by the CIS, the plurality of usage data in the data management format by aggregating the meter reads into two buckets relating to peak and off peak usage, wherein the framing includes mapping to a Time of Use (TOU) structure, and wherein framing procedures are assigned at a level of:
- register/channel, meter program, rate category and device group;
- and
- billing, by the CIS, a utility's end customers using the plurality of usage data in the data management format, wherein the framing and the billing is decided based on a type and quantity of validation errors.
A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising computer readable program code for causing a computer system to perform operations comprising:
- receiving, by a central computer system executing a customer information system (CIS), a first raw file comprising a plurality of usage data in terms of meter reads;
- determining, by the CIS, whether the meter reads exist for meters not saved in the meter database;
- storing, by the CIS, a raw version of the plurality of usage data in a meter database;
- converting, by the CIS, the plurality of usage data to a data management format;
- storing, by the CIS, in the database, the plurality of usage data in the data management format;
- framing, by the CIS, the plurality of usage data in the data management format by aggregating the meter reads into two buckets relating to peak and off peak usage,
- wherein the framing includes mapping to a Time of Use (TOU) structure, and
- wherein framing procedures are assigned at a level of:
- register/channel, meter program, rate category and device group;
- and
- billing, by the CIS, a utility's end customers using the plurality of usage data in the data management format, wherein the framing and the billing is decided based on a type and quantity of validation errors.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.