Data Owners

Overview

In the Data Interchange ecosystem, Data Owners oversee the management of cold chain data and processes. In many cases, Data Owners are the public health leaders of a country, with overall responsibility for collection, distribution, and reporting on cold chain data. In other cases, organizations that fund cold-chain infrastructure will play the role of Data Owner, empowered to manage cold-chain data in the context of a well-defined public health program.

It’s common for Data Owners to establish partnerships with manufacturers of smart refrigerators and/or data loggers to implement monitoring programs on behalf of the Data Owner. In this common case, the manufacturers are the source of cold-chain telemetry data (i.e., Telemetry Providers), but it is the Data Owner who determines how that data is routed to implement their country’s cold-chain monitoring program.

Within the Data Interchange, Data Owners can perform the following activities:

• Manage data destinations, to control how data is distributed within their cold-chain monitoring program;
• Pause (or resume) data flows from Telemetry Providers to Telemetry Consumers.
• Monitor how much data is being received from each Telemetry Provider;

These three primary functions provide Data Owners with centralized control over the collection and routing of their cold-chain data. The remainder of this document provides additional detail to help Data Owners configure and manage data routing within the Data Interchange.

What does this document cover?

This document provides the information necessary for a Data Owner to establish a new organizational account on the Data Interchange, login, and begin managing the routing of telemetry data between Telemetry Providers and Telemetry Consumers. This page is divided into three sections:

• Understanding the onboarding process
• Establishing a Data Owner organizational account
• Managing the routing of telemetry data between Telemetry Providers and Telemetry Consumers

Onboarding process for Data Owners

There is a simple, three-step process to establish a Data Owner organization on the Data Interchange and begin managing telemetry data:

1. Request the creation of a new Data Owner organizational account;

   This step requires you to provide some basic information about the Data Owner organization with the Data Interchange Administrator, who will create the new organizational account on the Data Interchange. Once this steps is complete, you (or a representative that you designate from your Data Owner organization) will receive a invitation to finalize the login credentials for the account.

2. Login to the Data Interchange and, optionally, create accounts for additional Data Interchange users in your organization;

3. View and manage data routing rules for your organization.

More detail on these steps is provided below.

Request creation of a new Data Owner organization

As the name suggests, a Data Owner represents an agency or organization that has ownership or direct responsibility for end-to-end management of telemetry data for a jurisdiction or set of cold chain devices. In the Data Interchange ecosystem, the Data Owner manages the routing of telemetry data from Telemetry Providers to Telemetry Consumers. A single Data Owner organization will be associated with one or more human representatives (“Users” or “Agents”) that have login accounts to the Data Interchange and can view (and, optionally, manage) the details of all data flows that are associated with their organization.

To create a new Data Owner organization, send an email to the Data Interchange Administrator at datatools@nhgh.org. This email should include the following information:

• Organization or agency name
• Your name
• Your role within the organization
• Your selected Display Name and URI (from previous step) – if available
• The country or jurisdiction for which the organization has responsibility for cold chain telemetry data
• Optional information:
  • A list of Telemetry Providers that will need access to the Data Interchange to send telemetry data to your organization;
  • A list of Telemetry Consumers that will need access to the Data Interchange to consume telemetry data on behalf of your organization;

By default, the Data Interchange Administrator will create a User account for the person who originated the request. This User account will allow the requestor to login to the Data Interchange. If you would like to designate an alternate User, please provide the following details for the User:

• First and last name
• Email address

Once Data Interchange Administrator creates the Data Owner organization, the User (identified in the request) will receive an email notification with instructions to complete the account registration process. By following these instructions, the User will be able to login to the Data Interchange and create any additional Users – associated with the Telemetry Consumer organization – that may be desired.

Login and create additional Users

Login in in to the Data Interchange management dashboard. Create additional users for your Data Owner organization by navigating to the Users section of website and clicking the Create User button.

View and manage data routing rules for your organization

From the Control Center page, the Data Owner can view the list of data sources (Telemetry Providers), the number of active devices from each source, and the list of data destinations. A representative of the Data Owner can configure which data sources are routed to each destination by clicking on a destination and then enabling (or disabling) the data sources that will be routed to the selected destination. The representative may optionally disable or enable data routing for an entire destination using the toggle-switch that is displayed with each destination.

Also from the Control Center page, the Data Owner can grant a Telemetry Consumer access to a destination. If you require additional destinations to achieve your desired data routing objectivies, please contact the Data Interchange Administrator, who can create one or more additional destinations on behalf of your Data Owner organization.