WO2008033293A3 - Distributing metering responses for load balancing an amr network - Google Patents

Distributing metering responses for load balancing an amr network Download PDF

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WO2008033293A3
WO2008033293A3 PCT/US2007/019634 US2007019634W WO2008033293A3 WO 2008033293 A3 WO2008033293 A3 WO 2008033293A3 US 2007019634 W US2007019634 W US 2007019634W WO 2008033293 A3 WO2008033293 A3 WO 2008033293A3
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amr
network
request
responses
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Stuber Michael T Garrison
John E Buffington
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Itron Inc
Stuber Michael T Garrison
John E Buffington
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G01—MEASURING; TESTING
    • G01R—MEASURING ELECTRIC VARIABLES; MEASURING MAGNETIC VARIABLES
    • G01R22/00—Arrangements for measuring time integral of electric power or current, e.g. electricity meters
    • G01R22/06—Arrangements for measuring time integral of electric power or current, e.g. electricity meters by electronic methods
    • G01R22/061—Details of electronic electricity meters
    • G01R22/063—Details of electronic electricity meters related to remote communication

Abstract

Disclosed are methodology and corresponding apparatus subject matters for providing improved efficiency in the collection of data from a large number of metrology devices (142, 144, 146, 148, 152, 154, 156, 158) associated with an Automated Meter reading (AMR) network. AMR network operation produces randomly spaced transmissions from individual nodes in the network. When an AMR system wishes to retrieve data from a large number of points over an AMR network, a broadcast or multicast request is transmitted to appropriate nodes. A time window is defined either in such request or in the devices themselves such that start and end offsets from the time of the request are received by the node. The start offset provides a quiet period to insure request delivery to all the appropriate nodes. The end offset provides a time by which the requested data must be returned. Responses are sent randomly within the window established by the start and stop offset times.
PCT/US2007/019634 2006-09-15 2007-09-10 Distributing metering responses for load balancing an amr network WO2008033293A2 (en)

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US11/899,981 2007-09-07

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