Units and Common Areas

   Units

A Unit is either a virtual or physical segment in a Site. The Unit inherits the physical location and GPS coordinates of its Site.

• The Unit name is unique within a Site. A Unit with the same name can be defined at another Site.
• A Unit normally has a physical location, but Units can also be virtual, without any identifiable physical location. Virtual Units are normally used as a repository for unmetered Common Areas.
• The Unit inherits the minimum balance configured at the Site level; this can be overridden at the Unit level.

• Using a Commercial Mall as an example:

  • Site: The mall itself.
  • Units: The shops within the mall and metered Common Areas within the mall.
  • Virtual Common Area: All unmetered Common Areas.

In most cases, a Unit is an identifiable physical segmentation within a Site. In some cases, a Unit can be virtual; a virtual Unit normally represents all un-metered Common Areas.  Units usually have Meters and Consumers associated with them.

• A Unit is defined within the context of a Site.
• Units and Sites can be Tagged.
• Tagging enables the creation of multi-hierarchical structures.

Common Areas

• Special types of Units can be a physical segmentation of a Site or a virtual segmentation.
• A Unit can be flagged as a Common Area. The default is to a non-common area unit.
• There can be more than one Common Area Unit per Site.
• There can be more than one virtual Unit per Site.