CIM Issues #5950
Updated by David Haynes 11 months ago
The "readCycle" and "Cycle Day" are throwbacks to when utilities read meters manually. A meter reading person would walk a route. Different utilities take different approaches, and use different labels, but they might label 1/4 of the meters "Week1", another fourth of the meters "Week2", another "Week3", and the last group "Week4". Each month, when it was the first, second, third, or fourth week of the month, the meter reader would walk his route and read that meter that week. Then, after running the data through an MDMS, it would go to billing, be printed, and mailed to the consumer. The printing, stuffing, and mailing might occur in the early days of the following week. Each utility has their own process. This label was to help utilities understand how they affiliate data with certain locations.