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MCS301 meter - product Manual 1.25 MetCom Solutions GmbH
Below information for an uniquely identification of the device are provided:
Fabrication Number
Object (IC 1): “M-Bus Device ID 1 channel X”
Type octet string containing the ASCII encoded fabrication
number. The length of the octet string matches the length of
the fabrication number.
Manufacturer
Object (IC 72): M-Bus client channel
X Attribute: manufacturer_id
Version
Object (IC 72): M-Bus client channel
X Attribute: version
Medium
Object (IC 72): M-Bus client channel
X Attribute: device type
Conversion of M-Bus VIF into COSEM scaler_unit
In the MCS301 meter the scenario 2 is used
1.
The E-meter automatically configures the COSEM scaler_unit according to the
corresponding information contained in VIF.
2.
The COSEM scaler_unit is manually configured in the E-meter. In this case the E-
meter automatically converts the values coming from the M-bus device
considering the information provided by VIF
.