What does the entity"Exporting" do on z-wave

Configuration Z-Wave
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Hello
What does the entity “exporting” do on a sensor? It’s default always “false”. What can I use it for?

sensor.power_heat_up_alarm_level 0
sensor.power_heat_up_alarm_type 0
sensor.power_heat_up_energy 36.34
sensor.power_heat_up_exporting False
sensor.power_heat_up_power 396.7
sensor.power_heat_up_power_2 14.2
sensor.power_heat_up_power_management 254
sensor.power_heat_up_sourcenodeid

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I would like to know it too.
BTW these “exporting” entities generates a lot of (useless?) log.
What’s their purpose? Can we safely remove them?
Thanks,
Claudio

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I have no idea what they do, but in my configuration I chose to hide all “exporting” and “sourcenodeid” entities automatically, I don’t use them, and don’t know what I would use them for:

zwave:
  usb_path: /dev/ttyACM0
  network_key: !secret zwave_network_key
  device_config_glob:
    "sensor.*_exporting*":
      ignored: true
    "sensor.*_sourcenodeid*":
      ignored: true
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