Method for communication between at least one meter device and an airborne device

US10962977B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignees

• Diehl Metering Systems GmbH · DE
• Diehl Metering GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Hristo Petkov · Nuremberg, DE
• Thomas Lautenbacher · Erlangen, DE
• Thomas Kauppert · Nuremberg, DE
• Klaus Gottschalk · Winkelhaid, DE
• Raphael Mzyk · Kammerstein, DE
• Philip Roehrle · Ansbach, DE
• Michael Traenkler · Ringelstein, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 30, 2018
• Grant date: Mar 30, 2021
• Expiry date: Jun 19, 2039

Classification

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

Abstract

A method provides communication between a meter and a flying device. The meter records consumption data. The flying device performs flight movements to a prescribed target position of the meter. Radio signals are received by a reception device and information is ascertained, relating to the transmission quality of a radio channel, based on the received signals. A poor transmission quality, satisfaction of which is dependent on the quality of the information, results in the reception of received signals and the ascertainment of the information being repeated after a communication protocol for communication with the meter has been changed, a position of the flying device being altered and/or a directivity of the reception device is altered until the transmission quality or a termination condition is satisfied. Upon having a satisfactory quality condition, meter information is captured and a message for controlling the operation of the meter is sent to the meter.