With Billing report, it is possible to create billing reports for an organization and its sub-organization for any selected month in a year. The generated report contains the:
- Organization key (orgKey) ;
- Parent organization key (parentOrgKey);
- Total number of billable things (countBillableThings) ;
- Total number of things (countThings);
- Total number of connections (countConnections);
- Number of API calls made (CountApiCalls) ;
- Total amount of storage(countStorage) used by the organization;
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The number of LwM2M messages (countLwm2mMessages) transmitted between the server and the LwM2M devices;
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The number of trigger actions executed by the server for the organization (countTriggerActions). If actions are executed within a loop, the trigger action count will increment for each iteration of the loop;
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The number of SMS messages transmitted and received by the platform (countSms). Does not count SMS messages sent using the CDP.
What is a Billable Thing?
A billable thing is a thing that has connected to the platform after the first day of the given month. For example:
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If a device has never connected, it is not billable in the current month.
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If a device connected last month, and has not connected since, it is not billable in the current month.
A device is considered to have connected if it establishes a session (over HTTP/S, MQTT/S, LwM2M, etc), transmits data, or sends an API command since the beginning of the month.
There are 4 ways of publishing data to a Thing that will update the Last Seen timestamp:
1 - User on behalf of a device;
2 - Application on behalf of a device;
3 - Device itself;
4 – Binding a Thing.
The Last SeenTimestamp will always reflect a data publish (via one of the methods described above) to the Thing – This is, publishing attributes, properties, alarms, locations, etc…
LastUpdated is the last time the Thing was edited (thing.update) – e.g. edit the name or description, add info like ICCID, adding/removing tags or security tags, changing Thing Definition, etc…
The device does not have to connect during the billing month to become a billable thing. It could be updated by something else and become billable as well.
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