C2M Study Flashcards
Person or Business, Account and Service Agreement (SA)
Are the entities that store demographic information
Service Point (SP) (Meter Location) and Premise (Service Location)
Are the entities that store geographic information
Person or Business and Account
Are the entities combination that create a customer
Account and Service Agreement (SA)
Are the entities that store financial information
Service Point attributes
- Main Information
- Field Information
- Measurement Cycle
- SP Characteristics
- SP Geographic Information
- Device History
- Usage Subscriptions
- SP Activity History
- SP Business Flags
SP Categories
Metered, Item-Based and Unbadged
Premise attributes
- Address
- Characteristics (Taxing Jurisdictions)
- Life Support
- Geographic Data (Time Zone, Area Code, Lati/Long)
Premise has ____ SPs
May have zero, one or more SPs
Service Agreement (SA) attributes
- Rate Information (Contract Riders, Contract Values)
- Chars-Qty & Rec, Charges (Characteristics, Contract Quantity, Budget Amount)
- Terms and Conditions
- Billable Charge Template.
When a service is started, attributes that this service can have defaulted
- Rate Information (Contract Rider, Contract Values)
- Chars, Qty & Rec. Charges (Characteristics, Contract Quantity, Budget Amount)
- Terms and Conditions
- Billable Charge Template.
Accounts characteristics
- Never expire
- Reference one or more persons
- Have a unique ID
- Can’t be deleted
- Are stored in system in dormant or inactive statuses.
CCS-C2M Business Object (BO) that would specify the valid rates for a customer
Service Agreement Type
Is the scenario when customers sign up to receive certain types of notifications and define the delivery details that the notifications should use
A Subscription Notification
Subscription Notification process
A CIS event occurs and triggers a notification to be initiated and sent to the customer (bill is due, for example), so CCS/C2M sends the notification using the specific contact details for the notification type.
Process to configure a Subscription Notification
- Navigating to Account Notebook dashboard
- Then going to Account Portal tab
- Then going to Subscription Communication Preferences zone
Items to create Financial Transactions
Bill Segments, payment segments and adjustments.
Situations to cancel a Financial Transaction (FT)
FTs are never canceled, but if is the case when the source of a FT is canceled, it will create a reversal of the original FT.
How to store an accounts balance
An Accounts Balance is not stored, but calculated, therefore is equal to the sum of all FTs linked to its SAs.
Difference between current balance and payoff balance
Current balance is how much the customer thinks he/she/it owes to the utility company and for pay off balance is how much the customer actually/really owes to the utility company, in other words, how much they would owe if they wanted to close the account.
Examples when the current balance is not equal to pay off balance
- Having a Service Agreement that have Budget
- Deposit SAs
- Loan SAs
- Charitable Contribution SAs
T/F a person may have one or more identifiers, may be linked to other persons for information purposes and can be associated to multiple accounts at a point in time.
TRUE
T/F Accounts can be associated to multiple persons at a point in time.
TRUE
T/F that the system requires an account to exist before service can be started
TRUE
T/F Bills are created/generated for each account that a person has and, are produced for account to be sent to the account’s person
TRUE
T/F FTs determine an accounts balance
TRUE
T/F Bill segments, payment segments and adjustments create FTs
TRUE
T/F SAs can exist independently or linked to traditional services (gas, electricity and water), for example, security deposit SA.
TRUE
T/F a current balance can be equal to the payoff balance
TRUE
T/F An account expire after some years of inactivity
FALSE
T/F An account expire when it doesn´t have at least one activity SA and that account balance is linked directly to the account
FALSE
T/F A User must choose a start option for each service to be started
FALSE
Difference between an Asset and a Component
An Asset is an object in an infrastructure (Meters, Transformers) or any other material item owned or managed by an organization and a Component is other kind of object that is installed on another device, usually an Asset
An Asset’s attributes
- Asset Type
- Status
- Specification
- Identification Information
- Settings
- Disposition Details
- Operational Device Vendor
The reason why components cannot be installed/attached to a SP
Components should be installed on top of an asset/device to be attached to a SP
An Asset´s disposition is …
The combination of its Location (Storage Location or Asset Location) and Status
T/F An Assets disposition can change
Yes, throughout its lifecycle, an Assets Disposition changes as the asset is moved between locations and services statuses.
Is an asset’s identification information
Badge, Serial and Pallet numbers
Settings of an asset are composed by
Current Firmware Version, Configuration
Disposition Details
Current Status and Location
Operational Device Vendor
Warranty Information and Device Vendor
Asset Type attributes
- Which are Valid Service History Types
- What are Valid Location Types
- The Asset Business Object
- Asset Attribute Types
What does the Asset Business Object refers to
Whether it’s a smart meter, analog meter and so on
Examples of components
Encoder, Receiver, Transmitter (ERT) , face plates on gas meters, communication cards on smart devices
Most residential clients have these kind of component
Encoder, Receiver, Transmitter (ERT)
Besides Asset _______ can also have disposition
Components
Asset disposition statuses
- In Receipt
- In Stores
- Installed
- In Repair
- Retired
- Rejected
What is an implication that components can have Specifications
So components are also one type of asset same way that assets have specifications, is the same way components will also have specifications
Specification Attributes
- Asset Type
- Manufacturer
- Model
- Configuration Mapping
- Firmware Information
Is any specification that is associated to the current specification by relation
Peer Specification
If you have two separate relationships and two separate specifications, but one specification is linked to other specification, if that link is there. What is it called?
Peer Specification
Device Attributes that are the same regardless of the number of Measuring Components
Manufacturer and Model, Serial Number, Badge Number; for Smart Meters (the Head-End System (HES))
Measuring Component attributes
Type of Measuring Component, Channel ID, Channel Multiplier
Types of Measuring Component
Physical, Aggregator, Scratchpad and Standalone
What does the MC Type define?
Unit of Measure (UOM), Time Of Use (TOU), Service Quantity Identifiers (SQI), whether it is Scalar or Interval
How many configurations a device can have?
A device can have multiple Device Configurations over time, but not at the same time
How many MCs can a device have?
A device can have multiple MCs
How is the MC associated to a device
Via Device Configuration
Store its attributes in MC Type
Seconds Per Interval (SPI)
What do you need when you require a field in the device?
Some identifier to define the device, so that you can load data to it, but it doesn’t have to be necessarily the serial number
Process to configure a device with net metering
Creating Device -> Device Configuration ->Two MCs, One for SQI Delivered and the Other for SQI Received
Difference between subtractive MCs and consumptive MCs
Subtractive produces a single measurement over a period of time, a reading by itself doesn’t indicate a usage amount (reading A - reading B = usage) and scalar demand; then there is consumptive, its measured at predictable intervals (e.g., every 15 mins)
Where is the Device Configuration Business Object installed?
It is installed at a SP
How many devices can be installed at a SP?
Only One Device can be installed at a given period of time