Method for collecting data, sensor and supply network

US11245969B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignees

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

Inventors

• Stefan Schmitz · San Francisco, US
• Thomas Kauppert · Nuremberg, DE
• Petra Joppich-Dohlus · Rathsberg, DE
• Achim Schmidt · Wrist, DE
• 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: Feb 8, 2022
• Expiry date: Apr 23, 2040

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 of 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 at least one physical or physico-chemical 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, and the time stamps are transmitted via a wired connection and/or via a radio path. The raw measurement data are reconstructed and evaluated based on the time stamps with the correlation model. The conditions for generating time stamps can be changed dynamically within the framework of the correlation model.