Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Optimized data collection in a wireless fixed network metering system
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Application No.: US12344015Application Date: 2008-12-24
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Publication No.: US09612132B2Publication Date: 2017-04-04
- Inventor: Andrew J. Borleske , Kenneth C. Shuey , Robert T. Mason, Jr. , David V. Uy
- Applicant: Andrew J. Borleske , Kenneth C. Shuey , Robert T. Mason, Jr. , David V. Uy
- Applicant Address: US NC Raleigh
- Assignee: Elster Solutions, LLC
- Current Assignee: Elster Solutions, LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US NC Raleigh
- Agency: Baker & Hostetler LLP
- Main IPC: G01D4/00
- IPC: G01D4/00

Abstract:
Methods and systems regarding an electricity meter in a wireless network are disclosed. The network may comprise a collector and a plurality of electricity meters that measure consumption of electricity and that bi-directionally communicate wirelessly with the collector. The electricity meter may have an established association with at least one battery-powered meter that measures consumption of a commodity other than electricity. The electricity meter may receive information about measured consumption of the other commodity from the battery-powered meter and store the received information. The electricity meter may transmit both information about consumption of electricity measured by the electricity meter and the information about consumption of the other commodity received from the associated battery-powered meter to the collector via the wireless network and also to a remotely located display associated with the electricity meter.
Public/Granted literature
- US20090167558A1 OPTIMIZED DATA COLLECTION IN A WIRELESS FIXED NETWORK METERING SYSTEM Public/Granted day:2009-07-02
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