IEE data model

Configuration data includes your organizational structure as well as the logical and physical devices within the IEE database. Organizational entities include Customer and Account, Logical and physical entities include Route, Service Point, and Meter.

The physical location (or locations) on a premise, where the utility company considers the commodity that it supplies (water, gas, energy, and so on), to be delivered to the customer. The service point(s) is not necessarily the same location on the premise where the commodity is metered. Service points are unaffected by meter and account changes. Some utilities and utility software refer to a service point alternatively as a point of delivery.

A route or route element is a collection of service points that is read by mobile, handheld or fixed network collection systems on a specific schedule.

Configuration entities are linked to one another in various ways. For example, an Account entity can only exist if it is associated with a Customer entity. A Service Point entity can have one or more Service Point Channels associated with it.

Some entity values are temporal in that they can change over time. These changes do not affect the associations (links) between entities.

This diagram shows the IEE configuration entities: