Collection system integration

Collection Systems Integration (CSI) is the end-to-end process of requesting and receiving meter readings from multiple sources and providing extracts and operational reports to billing systems. IEE integrates multiple collection systems and stores data in a central repository for use in reports, billing, and exporting to external systems. The CSI process is made up of following tasks:

• System Administration. Set up system parameters, code tables, and security.

• System Operations. Set up, schedule, manage and monitor tasks, and create task templates.

• Configuration. Set up customer attributes, system parameters, reporting criteria, and route attributes.

• Request Processing. Manages movement of meter reading requests from the customer information system to IEE's collection systems.

• Data Capture. This part of the schedule represents storage of the meter readings, status codes and changes that are collected during the meter reading process.

• Response Processing. Manages the transfer of collected meter readings from IEE to the CIS for billing purposes.

• Applications. Create user-defined calculations and set up validations specific to register data.

• Reporting. End users can view reports that address the both the data in the repository as well as status information during the process of collecting and distributing requests and readings.

For more information about data flow, see The end-to-end explanation and The end-to-end picture.

Related topics:

• The end-to-end explanation

• CSI administration

• Operational reporting