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type: "mappings"
title: "DeviceMetric Mappings"
resource: "DeviceMetric"
---

# DeviceMetric Mappings

- **DeviceMetric**: w5=administrative.device; DIM=Metric; BICEPS=MetricDescriptor
- **DeviceMetric.identifier**: w5=FiveWs.identifier
- **DeviceMetric.status**: w5=FiveWs.status
- **DeviceMetric.operationalStatus**: DIM=Metric::Metric-Status; BICEPS=Metric/ActivationState
- **DeviceMetric.category**: w5=FiveWs.class; DIM=Metric::Metric-Specification::category; BICEPS=MetricDescriptor/MetricCategory; ACOM=Filled in when this can be derived from SystemInfo.observation-type-list[i]
- **DeviceMetric.type**: w5=FiveWs.what[x]; DIM=type = VMO::Type
type.text = VMO::Label-String; BICEPS=MetricDescriptor/Type; ACOM=SystemInfo.observation-type-list[i]
- **DeviceMetric.device**: w5=FiveWs.subject
- **DeviceMetric.unit**: DIM=unit = Metric::Unit-Code
unit.text = Unit::Label-String; BICEPS=MetricDescriptor/Unit; ACOM=UCUM unit used for SystemInfo.observation-type-list[i] observations
- **DeviceMetric.color**: DIM=Metric::Color
- **DeviceMetric.measurementFrequency**: DIM=value = Metric::Measure-Period::value or Metric::Metric-Specification::update-period
unit = Metric::Measure-Period::unit-code; BICEPS=MetricDescriptor/DeterminationPeriod
- **DeviceMetric.availability**: BICEPS=MetricDescriptor/MetricAvailability
- **DeviceMetric.calibration.type**: DIM=Metric::Metric-Calibration::cal-type
- **DeviceMetric.calibration.state**: DIM=Metric::Metric-Calibration::cal-state
- **DeviceMetric.calibration.time**: DIM=Metric::Metric-Calibration::cal-time