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”, “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 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 or solar inverters. 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.

Core Attributes

Attributes are fixed key, value pairs used to represent non-time series data associated with each asset (read more about 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	Common raw (or transformed) real time SCADA data model for meters. Raw data with minor scale equations for validation or transformation.