Does Cognite Unit Catalog can support relative measure units ?

Hi ​@Marwen TALEB!

Cognite unit catalog is designed around the principle that each unit should have a deterministic conversion path to SI units. When we designed the catalog we identified that this approach covers the vast majority of industrial unit conversion requirements and ensures consistency across the platform. However, it doesn't accommodate specific units that require dynamic conversion factors like currencies or units that require context-dependent or calibration-based conversions, like gAPI.

I don’t know exactly the context in which you need to consume this time series data, but unfortunately for the time being you’ll have to implement some client side logic to handle unit conversion cases that don’t conform to the existing functionality provided in CDF. You could potentially store free text unit definition in time series and write some client side logic to handle the conversion as needed for these nonstandard units.

For a native solution, we can convert this question into a Product Idea and monitor interest from other CDF users. If this turns out to be a common challenge amongst our user base, we can consider an improvement to our catalog to accommodate these types of units. ​@Mithila Jayalath can you convert this into a Product Idea?