Validation statuses

The validation status indicates the results of the validation set.

Do not confuse validation statuses with reading statuses. Reading statuses indicate conditions associated with the reading, such as Alarm, Clock Reset, or Power Outage. For more information, Reading Status Codes.

Typically, readings have multiple validation statuses.

The first validation status indicates the original state of the data when it entered IEE. For example, if an external system assigned a validation status, IEE tracks this status by including it in the validation results. The first validation status is referred to as the source validation status. The source validation status does not affect the IEE validation statuses.

The next three validation statuses indicate the results of the validation set assigned to the validation slot.

Each validation status attribute defaults to NV (Not Validated) until the validation process runs and assigns a different validation status. If only the primary validation set ran on the data, the two remaining validation slots have a status of NV.

Each validation status has one of the following values:

  • Pass (PV). IEE ran validation, and the data fell within acceptable parameters.

  • Warn (WV). IEE ran validation, and the data fell outside the pre-defined warning threshold.

  • Fail (FV). IEE ran validation, and the data fell outside the pre-defined error threshold.

  • Not Validated (NV). IEE did not run validation because no validation set was assigned to this validation slot or none of the validation rules were appropriate for the Unit Of Measure for the channel.

  • Manual Accept (MA). IEE failed or warned the data during the validation process, but a user manually marked the data as accepted (for example, pass status).

The three IEE validation statuses conform to the following naming convention:

VEESET<slot number><validation status>

Typically, the validation slots correspond to the following validation set types:

Table 24 Validation set types

Validation Set Type

Validation Slot Number

Billing

1

Load Research

2

Other

3

For example, a chunk of data passes the Billing validation set in validation slot 1 but fails the Load Research validation set in validation slot 2. Validation slot 3 does not have an assigned validation set. This chunk of data enters IEE without a specific source validation status. The validation status for this data is written as follows:

NV VEESET1PV VEESET2FV VEESET3NV

The estimation and editing processes add interval status codes when results are saved. IEE writes interval status codes before the source validation status code. For example, if the estimation process determines that estimation is needed due to data being out of the high or low limits, the validation status is written as follows:

ESTNEEDED LIMIT NV VEESET1PV VEESET2FV VEESET3NV