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Utility monitoring device, system and method

  • US 9,171,458 B2
  • Filed: 10/25/2012
  • Issued: 10/27/2015
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/02/2007
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A monitoring device for monitoring usage of a commodity supplied by a utility and contemporaneously displaying at least two usage metrics on a portable computing device, comprising:

  • a receiver for receiving information relating to at least a first of said at least two usage metrics, said first usage metric relating to present consumption rate or aggregate consumption of the commodity; and

    a transmitter for transmitting said usage metrics by way of a wireless communications system to the portable computing device having a local display and a processor programmed to receive said at least two usage metrics and cause said local display to display a varying illuminated area whose colour and area variation are each indicative of a respective one of the at least two usage metrics.

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