Central base for private radiocommunication local network and radiocommunication device comprising same

• US 20060035650A1
• Filed: 09/02/2003
• Published: 02/16/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 09/03/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Inventel Systems
• Original Assignee: Inventel Systems
• Inventors: Carreel, Eric, Olivier, Henri-Nicolas, Amberny, Oliver, Deguet, Bruno
• Application Number:
  US10/526,707
• Publication Number:
  US 20060035650A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/462
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 2203/5441 Wireless systems or telephone
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 2203/5445 Local network
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 2203/5491 using filtering and bypassing
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 3/54 Systems for transmission via power distribution lines
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72502 with one base station connected to a single line
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/02 including a Bluetooth interface

Abstract

The invention concerns a central base for a private wireless local area network wherein the central base includes electronic circuits that include an electronic central unit and which is supplied with electricity with at least one live supply line intended to be connected to an external electricity power source. The central base is suitable for communicating on the one hand with a public telecommunication network, and on the other hand with at least one wireless peripheral device according to a digital bi-directional wireless protocol for a private wireless local area network.

Claims

1. A central base for a private wireless local area network, this central base comprising electronic circuits that include an electronic central unit and that are supplied with electricity by at least one live supply line intended to be connected to an external electricity power source, said central base being suitable for communicating:

on the one hand, with a public telecommunication network (3),

and on the other hand, with at least one wireless peripheral device, according to a digital bidirectional wireless protocol for a private wireless local area network,

characterized in that it comprises an interface circuit which is controlled by the electronic central unit of said central base and which is connected to said supply line, this interface circuit being suitable for sending and receiving messages on said supply line,

and in that the interface circuit of the central base is suitable for sending and receiving high frequency periodic signals representative of sent and received messages, and the central base comprises a low-pass filter suitable for filtering said high frequency periodic signals between the interface circuit of the central base and at least a portion of the electronic circuits of the central base.

2. The central base as claimed in claim 1, in which the interface circuit of the central base is installed in drop and insert mode on said supply line.

3. The central base as claimed in claim 1, in which the interface circuit of the central base is suitable for sending and receiving periodic signals at a frequency lying between 100 and 500 kHz.

4. The central base as claimed in claim 1, in which the interface circuit of the central base is controlled by the electronic central unit of the central base via a serial interface controller.

5. The central base as claimed in claim 1, suitable for sending outgoing alphanumeric messages at least to the public telecommunication network and for receiving incoming alphanumeric messages at least from said public telecommunication network, the electronic central unit of the central base being suitable for:

(a) recognizing at least certain incoming alphanumeric messages intended for an external interface module, called service messages, and for causing to be generated on the supply line, by said interface circuit of the central base, a message corresponding to each incoming service message,

(b) and when it receives a message received by the interface circuit of the central base on the supply line, determining whether this message must be transmitted to the outside and, in this case, sending an outgoing alphanumeric message, called outgoing service message, corresponding to the message received.

6. The central base as claimed in claim 5, also suitable for sending outgoing alphanumeric messages to at least one wireless peripheral device by using said wireless protocol, and for receiving incoming alphanumeric messages from said wireless peripheral device.

7. A wireless device comprising a central base as claimed in claim 1 and an external interface module, distinct from the central base, which itself comprises:

an electronic central unit,

and an interface circuit controlled by said electronic central unit of the external interface module and which is connected to said supply line, this interface circuit of the external interface module being suitable for communicating with the interface circuit of the central base by sending and receiving messages on said supply line.

8. The wireless device as claimed in claim 7, in which the interface circuit of the external interface module is installed in drop and insert mode on said supply line.

9. The wireless device as claimed in claim 7, in which the interface circuit of the external interface module is suitable for sending and receiving high frequency periodic signals representative of messages sent and received, and the external interface module comprises a low-pass filter (L2) suitable for filtering said high frequency periodic signals between the interface circuit of the external interface module and an electricity supply device intended to connect said supply line to the external electricity power source.

10. The wireless device as claimed in claim 7, in which the interface circuit of the external interface module is suitable for sending and receiving periodic signals at a frequency lying between 100 and 500 kHz.

11. The wireless device as claimed claim 7, in which the interface circuit of the external interface module is controlled by the electronic central unit of said external interface module via a serial interface controller.

12. The wireless device as claimed in claim 7, in which the central base and the external interface module are suitable for communicating together according to a half-duplex asynchronous protocol.

15. The wireless device as claimed in claim 7, comprising a central base, and in which the electronic central unit of the external interface module is suitable for causing messages intended to be sent by the central base in the form of outgoing service messages to be generated on the supply line, by the interface circuit of said external interface module.

13. The wireless device as claimed in, also comprising an external electronic device distinct from the external interface module and communicating with the electronic central unit of said external interface module.

14. The wireless device as claimed in claim 13, in which the external electronic device is chosen from a sensor, an actuator and a centralized command and control device suitable for being connected to a plurality of sensors and actuators.