Distributed utility monitoring, such as for monitoring the quality or existence of a electrical, gas, or water utility
US7283916B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Jul 5, 2005 |
| Grant date | Oct 16, 2007 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jul 5, 2025 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06Q50/06
- WIPO fieldMeasurement
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
In a system for automatic meter reading of utility meters, a utility supply measuring system may include one or more collector units, wherein each one of the collector units accesses a supply of a utility, wherein the accessing occurs in addition to receiving meter reading data from a telemetry device, such as a telemetry device coupled to a utility. In accessing the supply of the utility, the collector unit component may itself be at least loosely coupled to a utility supply, or may communicate with a device that monitors quality, such as an outage detector. A method for transmitting utility supply data for such communications may include continuously transmitting a PN sequence code over a single channel.
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