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TRANSMISSION LINE MEASURING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONNECTIVITY AND MONITORING

  • US 20140145858A1
  • Filed: 09/22/2011
  • Published: 05/29/2014
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/22/2010
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A data acquisition device for acquiring data from a transmission line comprising:

  • at least one sensor for determining at least one of a parameter and image associated with the transmission line;

    a radio interface for communicating to at least one of a monitoring device and at least one neighboring data acquisition device via a radio communication link within a selected range; and

    a processing device connected to the at least one sensor and the radio interface, the processing device being programmed to receive and process inputs from the at least one sensor, and to generate messages for transmission via the radio interface;

    wherein the processing device is configured to participate in multi-hop communications via the radio communication link by receiving messages generated by other data acquisition devices, and determining from information provided in each of the messages which operation to perform from among process the message, repeat the message, and ignore the message.

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