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Modular wireless fixed network for wide-area metering data collection and meter module apparatus

  • US 20060244631A1
  • Filed: 02/15/2006
  • Published: 11/02/2006
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/13/2001
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A scalable and modular fixed-base wireless network system for wide-area metering data collection comprising:

  • at least one meter module for monitoring, storing, encoding and periodically transmitting metering data;

    at least one base station for receiving, decoding, storing and forwarding metering data; and

    a data operations center, which communicates with said receiver base station and receives decoded metering data from the base station, said data operations center processing, validating and storing metering data in a database that it maintains for meter modules operating in the network system.

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