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Method for selecting an outstation using a control center in a transmission system

US7236498B1 · kind B1 · utility

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Filing dateMar 5, 1999
Grant dateJun 26, 2007
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Expiry dateMar 5, 2019

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  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY04S40/12
  • WIPO fieldElectrical machinery, apparatus, energy
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

The method serves for calling a substation (USm) by a central station (Z) in a transmission system for the purposes of information transmission by way of a communication channel (m) called from a plurality of communication channels. The plurality of communication channels is subdivided into communication groups (GRI, GRII, GRIII) of the same property or the same parameter values. Within a selected communication group (GRII) a communication channel (m) is called, which is still communication-free. If all (n) communication channels of the communication group (GRII) are already busy, the central station (Z) goes into a waiting condition until at least one of the communication channels of the communication group (GRII) becomes communication-free. The method permits optimum, parallel and synchronous utilisation of all available communication means for a group of the substations so that the central station (Z) by way of communication channels of that group acquires simultaneously and in optimum fashion data, in particular measurement data of electricity meters, of all associated substations.

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