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Optimized data collection in a wireless fixed network metering system

  • US 9,612,132 B2
  • Filed: 12/24/2008
  • Issued: 04/04/2017
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/26/2007
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. In a wireless network comprising a collector and a plurality of electricity meters that measure consumption of electricity and that bi-directionally communicate wirelessly with the collector to transmit information about measured consumption of electricity to the collector, each of the electricity meters having a wireless communication path to the collector that is either a direct communication path to the collector or an indirect communication path through one or more other electricity meters that serve as repeaters, a method performed by a select one of the electricity meters, comprising:

  • receiving a message, from a battery-powered meter that measures consumption of a commodity other than electricity, which designates the select one of the electricity meters as an associated meter, such that an association is established with the battery-powered meter that measures consumption of a commodity other than electricity;

    in response to establishing the association, receiving information about measured consumption of the other commodity from the associated battery-powered meter and storing the received information; and

    transmitting both information about consumption of electricity measured by the select one electricity meter and the information about consumption of the other commodity received from the associated battery-powered meter to the collector via the wireless network.

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