Method for collecting data, sensor and supply network

US11399222B2 · 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: Jul 26, 2022
• Expiry date: Jan 21, 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, 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 supplies raw measurement data in the form of elementary measurement units that correspond to a physical or physico-chemical variable or parameter. In order to define the measurement resolution of the sensor, the conditions for generating time stamps are defined in advance using a correlation model, time stamps of successive items of raw measurement data are generated in the sensor on the basis of the correlation model, the time stamps are transmitted so that the raw measurement data acquired by the measuring element is reconstructed on the basis of the time stamps using the correlation model, and analyzed. The transmission is performed with a dynamically adaptable redundancy.