Virtual Meter

Requirements

The Core Services of the Edge Compute Platform need to have been installed.

These services can be deployed by adding the "App - ECP Virtual Meter" application from the Marketplace to your own space (see Marketplace).

Figure 1.

Thing Description

See Things documentation on how to manage Things in Studio.

A Thing for this device driver uses a schema as described on this page.

Once it exists in Studio it can be synced to the Cluster (Asset) as shown on the Sync Things page.

{
    "@type": [
        "swx:Meter",
        "swx:Virtual"
    ],
    "id": "<leave blank when creating a thing>",
    "title": "Meter",
    "description": "Virtual Meter",
    "category": "<set to the cloud category to be used>",
    "properties": {
        "UD_DTYPE_KWH_ODM": {
            "title": "kWh ODM",
            "type": "number",
            "readOnly": true
        },
        "UD_DTYPE_KW_AVG": {
            "title": "kW",
            "type": "number",
            "readOnly": true,
            "minimum": -5,
            "maximum": 25
        },
        "dataUsagePollSecs": {
            "title": "Data Usage Poll Secs",
            "type": "integer",
            "readOnly": false
        }
    },
    "actions": {
        "correctKwhOdm": {
            "input": {
                "title": "Correct the kWh ODM value",
                "type": "object",
                "properties": {
                    "newValue": {
                        "title": "The new value",
                        "type": "number"
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    },
    "events": {
        "negativeKw": {
            "title": "Negative kW",
            "description": "kW Usage is Negative",
            "data": {
                "type": "number"
            }
        }
    }
}