Method for collecting data, sensor and supply network

US11422005B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignees

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

Inventors

• Petra Joppich-Dohlus · Rathsberg, DE
• Thomas Kauppert · Nuremberg, DE
• Achim Schmidt · Wrist, 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: Aug 23, 2022
• Expiry date: Apr 14, 2040

Classification

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

Abstract

A method collects data during operation of a local sensor as a component of a supply network for distributing a consumable. The supply network contains a master in communication with the local sensor via a primary communication path. The sensor contains a measuring element which supplies, as raw measurement data, elementary measurement units. A wired primary communication path is provided between the sensor and the master. To define the measurement resolution of the sensor, the conditions for generating time stamps are defined in advance using a correlation model. The 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 via the primary communication path so that the raw measurement data acquired by the measuring element is reconstructed using the correlation model on the basis of the time stamps received by the master, and analyzed.