Method for collecting data, sensor, data collector, and supply network

US11118938B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignees

• Diehl Metering Systems GmbH · DE
• Diehl Metering S.A.S. · FR

Inventors

• Achim Schmidt · Wrist, DE
• Thomas Kauppert · Nuremberg, DE
• Petra Joppich-Dohlus · Rathsberg, DE
• Stefan Schmitz · San Francisco, US
• Christoph Sosna · Nuremberg, DE
• Klaus Gottschalk · Winkelhaid, DE
• Guy Bach · Schweighouse, FR
• Aster Breton · Mulhouse, FR

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 16, 2019
• Grant date: Sep 14, 2021
• Expiry date: Dec 16, 2039

Classification

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

Abstract

A method for collecting data, preferably in connection with a consumption, a physical or physico-chemical parameter and/or an operating state in a supply network for consumables. A measuring element of a local sensor provides elementary measuring units, which correspond to at least one physical or physico-chemical variable or parameter, as raw measurement data. In order to determine the measurement resolution of the sensor, the conditions for generating time stamps are determined in advance using a correlation model, time stamps of successive raw measurement data are generated in the sensor on the basis of the correlation model, the time stamps are transmitted and the raw measurement data acquired by the measuring element are reconstructed and evaluated on the basis of the time stamps using the correlation model. The temporal offset between a sensor and a receiver is corrected by transmitting telegrams to compensate for the temporal offset.