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Electronic electric meter for networked meter reading

  • US 7,277,027 B2
  • Filed: 09/26/2003
  • Issued: 10/02/2007
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/05/1997
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A commodity monitoring network comprising:

  • a commodity provider operable to provide a commodity;

    at least one measuring device being operable to measure a utilization characteristic of the commodity provided by the commodity provider, and to generate utilization data based on the characteristic; and

    a gateway node including a transceiver section, a network interface module and a programmable controller,the transceiver section having a plurality of communication channels and wirelessly receiving data including the utilization data and a channel selection from the device,the network interface module being operable to be coupled to the transceiver section, andthe programmable controller operable to be coupled to the transceiver section, to process the channel selection from the transceiver section, and to set the transceiver section at a transceiver frequency corresponding to the channel selection.

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