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title: "Meter"
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# Meter

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## Meter

The **Meter** is a core asset type in the Bazefield platform representing a meter at a power plant. It serves as a foundational asset for collecting and organizing telemetry data at a variety of points in the plant, monitoring energy flow, validating performance, and ensuring accurate reporting. Each meter asset is uniquely identified and associated with a parent site (e.g a “[wind farm](/product/docs/wind-farm)”, “[solar farm](/product/docs/solar-farm)”, etc.).

### Functional Description

A **Meter** continuously records electrical parameters such as voltage, current, power, and energy at specific points in a Power Plant, such as after AC Collection, Energy Management, and Interconnection points within the **AC Power Layer** (see [Domain Categories](/product/docs/domain-categories) for a broader description of the AC Power layer and related assets across different power plants). Meters can be used for grid export and import tracking, internal consumption monitoring, or performance verification of renewable assets like [wind turbines](/product/docs/wind-turbine) or [solar inverters](/product/docs/pv-inverter). Meters are commonly check meters which are used for internal verification of values within a plant boundary, and as revenue meters used for billing and settlement purposes.

## Core Data Model

While the data model of individual meters may vary by vendor, Bazefield offers a pre-installed *CORE* data model to account for the most common points, events, and attributes relevant to all makes and models of meters. Type and model variations are then handled typically through smart [Model Inheritance](/product/docs/asset-model).

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### Core Attributes

Attributes are fixed key, value pairs used to represent non-time series data associated with each asset (read more about [Attributes](/product/docs/attributes)). While attribute values can differ from asset to asset, critical shared (e.g. *CORE*) attributes defining a meter asset type, pre-installed in Bazefield are described below. These are often pre-requisite data required for the Bazefield applications to function fully.

Required for basic Bazefield Core functionality

Optional attributes for common additional modelling

*Depending on your version of Bazefield, there may be additional advanced attributes not listed here to support data integrations or migrations with other systems.*

| Name | Key | Description |  |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Latitude | latitude | GPS coordinates for the meter using WGS 84 system in decimals |  |
| Longitude | longitude | GPS coordinates for the meter using WGS 84 system in decimals |  |
| Time Zone | timeZone | Local time zone where the meter is located |  |
| Max Ramp Threshold | slope | Used to filter out the abnormal increases/jumps in meter readings. The recommended value is twice the total DC capacity in kW of the modules connected to this meter, i.e. total DC Capacity * 2. If unconfigured, no filtering is applied. |  |
| Serial Number | sn | Serial Number of the meter |  |
| Altitude (m) | altitude | Meter elevation from sea level (m) |  |

### Certified Product Templates

This section lists the common, shared point, event, and other data templates applicable to a meter asset type pre-installed by the Bazefield product team.

Required for Bazefield Core Dashboard functionality

Optional templates for common additional data streams/sources

| Template Type | Name | Description |  |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Point Template | [Core Real-Time Data](/product/docs/core-real-time-data-meter) | Common raw (or transformed) real time SCADA data model for meters. Raw data with minor scale equations for validation or transformation. |  |