Nuances of heating apartments
Consumers are disconnected from heating for various reasons. Of course, those consumers are not obliged to pay for the absence of heating. The amount for payment decreases in proportion to the time of heating off, but:
- Disconnections happen at different levels (apartment, entrance, house, highway, central heating station, thermal power station). At different levels, data is entered into the system by different users or even by different organizations. There should not be two deductions for accruals if a heating shutdown is entered for the same time at different levels. Therefore, in the system during the calculation, we analyze the intersection of outages available at different levels of the heating network.
- The greater the accuracy of the intersection of the heating cut-offs, the greater the volume of the base and the time of calculations. In most programs, this analysis is simply not carried out. It is possible and with more accuracy, but the data in hours and minutes is not analyzed for the intersection with other hours and minutes.
It is not enough to calculate the amount of meter reading due to outages. Consumers are disconnected from heating for various reasons. To divide the amount of meter reading between different reasons, if the period of heating cut-off intersects, there may be either a reduction in the implementation of heating or a loss of heating. We apply an algorithm based on the priorities of taking counter readings for various reasons and provide a summary of meter readings for each act and reason.
Recalculations of previous periods. If the shutdown is entered "backdated", then how to justify the consumer the amount of meter reading, if that period already had other readings of the meter readings, and the new meter readings are partially overlapping already known in the system. To do this, we store the entire history of data on the readings of meter readings, the results of taking account readings, the tariffs in effect at all times, squares, neighbors, and much more.
The balance of consumption and consumption of group meters. It is difficult to justify to the consumer with a group accounting meters the additional charge for the past period, when the hindsight for one neighbor reduced the heated area, because of which part of its heating consumption was redistributed to other neighbors. After all, neither tariffs, nor the area of the consumer has changed, and the fee has been added. We provide several types of printouts in the context of the meter, the consumer and the history of charging.
Change the input data during the billing period. To calculate who in the middle changed the area of the room, there were heating outages, or the beneficiaries registered and decreased incorrectly, and if in the middle of the month the tariff changed and the changes are received late, it is necessary to recalculate for the previous periods.
And so on. The amount to pay is not just a tariff multiplied by the area. In Excel, this can not be calculated. And on the basis of accounting transactions, it is unlikely that it will be possible.
