Method for acquiring and communicating data of a smart-metering meter and device for executing the method

US10209092B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Diehl Metering Systems GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Hristo Petkov · Nuremberg, DE
• Thomas Lautenbacher · Erlangen, DE
• Thomas Kauppert · Nuremberg, DE
• Klaus Gottschalk · Winkelhaid, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 26, 2017
• Grant date: Feb 19, 2019
• Expiry date: Jul 26, 2037

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y04S20/30
• WIPO field: Measurement
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

Mobile units moving in a local network environment and at times in the vicinity of meters of the network, at least temporarily bypass relay functions of a concentrator operated in a stationary manner, if the relay function is not yet available, for instance during construction, for radio communication of data packets of the meter linked into the smart-metering network to a center. The mobile units are persons and/or vehicles with communication devices such as smartphones for long-distance links over the Internet or in the mobile radio standard. The communication devices, as modified mobile radio telephones, receive data packets from meters by using hardware or a software app over a short-distance link to the mobile unit being accidentally temporarily located in the vicinity of the meter. Long-distance communication of packets from mobile unit to center then takes place over the Internet or the mobile radio standard.