Method for operating a mobile readout system and readout receiver

US10863253B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Diehl Metering Systems GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Guy Bach · Schweighouse, FR
• Bernard Dockwiller · Talange, FR
• Eric Perrin · Metz, FR
• Thomas Blank · Regensburg, DE
• Petra Joppich-Dohlus · Rathsberg, DE
• Thomas Kauppert · Nuremberg, DE
• Klaus Gottschalk · Winkelhaid, DE
• Stefan Herr · Greenville, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 5, 2019
• Grant date: Dec 8, 2020
• Expiry date: Jul 5, 2039

Classification

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

Abstract

A method operates a mobile readout system having at least one stationary consumption meter and a mobile readout receiver for reading out the consumption meter as the readout receiver moves past the consumption meter. A two-way communication takes place between the consumption meter and the readout receiver by using the consumption meter to transmit status information stored in the consumption meter, using the readout receiver to receive the status information, using the readout receiver to request additional information from the consumption meter by using a request command, and transmitting encrypted additional information from the consumption meter to the readout receiver. A readout receiver having a receiver for acquiring data from a plurality of spatially distributed consumption meters by using radio transmission according to the method is also provided.