New: An electric utility is starting an Advanced Meter Infrastructure (AMI) roll-out for their residential customers. The initial plan is to roll out devices from their manufacturer with potentially three different

device models. The customer has not decided what head-end systems they will use to communicate with these devices. Based on the customer's initial roll-out strategy, the devices will have to be configured consistently to support existing tariffs for billing.

Which is a valid consideration to determine the setup of device type administrative data for this implementation?