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Electronic electric meter for networked meter reading

  • US 20040061625A1
  • Filed: 09/26/2003
  • Published: 04/01/2004
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/05/1997
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A commodity monitoring network comprising:

  • a commodity provider operable to provide a commodity;

    at least one measuring device being operable to measure a utilization characteristic of the commodity provided by the commodity provider, and to generate utilization data based on the characteristic; and

    a gateway node including a network handler and a communication handler, the network handler being operable to receive data from the commodity provider, to generate network data based on the data received, and to send the network data to the communication handler, the communication handler being operable to receive the network data sent from the network handler, to generate communication data based on the received network data, to wirelessly transmit the communication data to the measuring device, and to wirelessly receive data including the utilization data from the measuring device.

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