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Methods and systems of reading utility meters and methods and systems of transmitting utility meter data

  • US 9,752,895 B2
  • Filed: 11/01/2012
  • Issued: 09/05/2017
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/24/2011
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A method of polling of meter data measured by a plurality of utility measuring devices and transmitted over a plurality of wireless local area network (WLAN) channels, comprising:

  • capturing a plurality of frames of a WLAN protocol which are transmitted periodically by the plurality of utility measuring devices over the plurality of WLAN channels, said plurality of frames are of a type of Management Frames,wherein a format of said plurality of frames is defined according to said WLAN protocol for communication before a WLAN association with an interrogation device is established,wherein each of said plurality of frames contains meter data of respective each of said plurality of utility measuring devices embedded in an Information Element (IE) field of said plurality of frames, wherein said plurality of frames are of the type of the Management Frames, said IE field and said Management Frames are defined according to said WLAN protocol, andwherein said transmission periodically by the plurality of utility measuring devices is conducted without establishing the WLAN association with the interrogation device;

    extracting said meter data from said each of said plurality of frames; and

    updating a plurality of consumer records, each one of the consumer records according to respective said meter data from the respective said each of said plurality of utility measuring device.

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