Owner's manual

May 2010 Badger
®
READCENTER
®
Installation and Operation Manual
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Badger Meter, Inc. — CONFIDENTIAL AND PROPRIETARY — 21
Account Fields
 For fields passed to the handheld or laptop, sizes listed may vary from what can be
displayed.
 Field sizes listed may vary from those defined in the structure of the input file from the
billing system.
Customer
This section displays the Account ID,
First Name, Last Name, House #, and
other information associated with the
customer where the meter is located.
Field Name Type Size Description
Account ID Alphanumeric 50 Used to link the billing system record to the
READCENTER record. (see note below).
Description Alphanumeric 50 Optional customer information.
First Name Alphanumeric 50 First name of the customer who lives at the address—if a
residence—where the meter is located.
Last Name Alphanumeric 50 Last name or business name of the customer at the
address where the meter is located.
House # Alphanumeric 50 Number of the address—residence or business— where
the meter is located.
Street Name Alphanumeric 50 Street name of the address where the meter is located.
City Account Table 50 Optional—city where the meter is located.
State Account Table 50 Optional—state where the meter is located.
Zip/Postal Account Table 50 Optional—zip/postal code where the meter is located.
Category Account Table 50 Optional—for future development to identify a customer
category such as residential or commercial.
Account ID Note:
 TheAccountIDisassociatedwiththephysicallocationofthemeteranddoesnotchange
whenthemeter,module,ortenantchanges.IfthebillingAccount#doesnotfitthiscriterion,
alocationidentifier–ifoneexists–maybeused.
 Thecombinationofthe
AccountIDandService#(undertheRegistrationtab)formsaunique
identifierforeachmeterreading. IfthelastdigitsoftheAccountIDholdatenantnumber,
READCENTERwillbeconfiguredtostoreitseparatelyinoneofthefieldsundertheUtilityUse
tab.IfREADCENTERdoesnot
findarecordwiththecombinedAccountIDandService#
specifiedintheinputfilefromthebillingsystem,itwillcreateanewrecordwithaclean
readinghistory.