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Method for site appraisal for the operation of a data radio receiver, particularly for the capture of consumption data

US8787838B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

Diehl Metering Systems GmbH · DE

Inventors

Thomas Kauppert · Nuremberg, DE
Klaus Gottschalk · Winkelhaid, DE
Thomas Uhlmann · Muhr am See, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Jun 9, 2011
Grant date	Jul 22, 2014
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Feb 24, 2032

Classification

Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
CPC primaryH04B17/27
WIPO fieldTelecommunications
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

The suitability of a fixed or current mobile operating location for the receiver (19) in a data memory (13, 15) for picking up the consumption data (12) transmitted by a data radio channel in a wireless local data capture system (11) from consumption points (14) to a data memory (13, 15) can easily and reliably be qualitatively assessed in situ or for the purpose of remote diagnosis by virtue of a channel scan being initiated and the memory receiver (17) performing an RSSI measurement, which is preferably presented as a histogram (20) against current channel use. This renders permanent sources of interference and link budget problems in the data radio (particularly UHF) channel and also temporary sources of interference and collision problems in this channel identifiable and thereby avoids costly receiver location changes, without use of radio-specific specialist personnel, after a site has previously been selected for the receiver installation only empirically but inexpediently.

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