CN117202165A - Electric energy meter HPLC module with remote upgrading function and upgrading method - Google Patents

Abstract

The invention provides an electric energy meter HPLC module with a remote upgrading function and an upgrading method, in the method, because the electric power carrier module can simultaneously use a plurality of receiving beams to receive configuration from a network in a preset time, for example, a first receiving beam receives a first transmitting beam from network equipment and a second receiving beam receives a second transmitting beam from the network equipment, so as to reduce transmission delay of the configuration, and when the electric power carrier module uses a third configuration determined by the first configuration and the second configuration to upgrade the electric energy meter, upgrade failure caused by communication overtime can be avoided.

Description

Electric energy meter HPLC module with remote upgrading function and upgrading method

Technical Field

The invention relates to the field of communication, in particular to an electric energy meter HPLC module with a remote upgrading function and an upgrading method.

Background

The evolution of random wireless technology has advanced, the internet of things (Internet of things, ioT) has been applied to fifth generation (5th generation,5G) mobile communication systems, such as mass internet of things communication (Massive Machine Type Communication, mctc) defined by the third generation partnership project (3rd generation partnership project,3GPP), where devices can communicate via an air interface or PC5 connection. Taking an electric power scene as an example, a large number of electric energy meters can be accessed to network equipment through an air interface so as to automatically update and upgrade through configuration issued by the network equipment.

However, a large number of electric energy meters are connected to the network device, so that a large amount of communication resources of the network device are occupied, resources are tense, upgrading is affected, and upgrading failure may occur.

Disclosure of Invention

The embodiment of the invention provides an electric energy meter HPLC module with a remote upgrading function and an upgrading method, which are used for improving the communication efficiency under mass equipment through multi-beam simultaneous communication, so that the electric energy meter cannot be failed in upgrading due to communication overtime.

In order to achieve the above purpose, the invention adopts the following technical scheme:

in a first aspect, an upgrade method of an electric energy meter with a remote upgrade function is provided, and the upgrade method is applied to an HPLC module of a power carrier, and the method includes: the power carrier module receives a first sending beam from network equipment through a first receiving beam and receives a second sending beam from the network equipment through a second receiving beam within a preset time, wherein the first sending beam carries a first configuration of the electric energy meter, and the second sending beam carries a second configuration of the electric energy meter; the power carrier module determines a third configuration according to the first configuration and the second configuration; and the power carrier module updates the current configuration of the electric energy meter according to the third configuration.

In a possible design, the power carrier module includes a first antenna panel and a second antenna panel, the first receive beam is a main receive beam of the power carrier module, and the main receive beam includes two receive beams that are respectively generated by the first antenna panel and the second antenna panel and are both directed to the network device; and the second receiving beam is a secondary receiving beam of the power carrier module, and the secondary receiving beam comprises one receiving beam which is generated by the first antenna panel or the second antenna panel and is directed to the network device.

Optionally, the first configuration received by the two reception beams included in the primary reception beam is a secondary configuration, and the second configuration received by the one reception beam included in the secondary reception beam is a primary configuration.

The auxiliary configuration is characterized by a first bit sequence with a length of N, N is an integer greater than 1, i traverses 1 to N for the ith bit of the first bit sequence, (i+Yi) mod 2=xi, yi is a random number generated by a pseudo-random algorithm i times, if the value of Xi is 0, the ith bit is carried in a receiving beam generated by the first antenna panel in the main receiving beam, and if the value of Xi is 1, the ith bit is carried in the receiving beam generated by the second antenna panel in the main receiving beam. Or, the auxiliary configuration is characterized by a first bit sequence with a length of N, the main configuration is characterized by a second bit sequence with a length of M, N and M are integers greater than 1, i traverses 1 to N for the ith bit in the bit sequence, (i×m+yi) mod 2=xi, yi is a random number generated i times by a pseudo-random algorithm, if the value of Xi is 0, the ith bit is carried in a receiving beam generated by the first antenna panel in the main receiving beam, and if the value of Xi is 1, the ith bit is carried in a receiving beam generated by the second antenna panel in the main receiving beam.

For example, the primary configuration includes names and values of various types of parameters in the third configuration, and the secondary configuration includes an association relationship between names and values of various types of parameters in the third configuration.

Further, the power carrier module determines a third configuration according to the first configuration and the second configuration, including: and when the first configuration is the auxiliary configuration, the power carrier module uses the auxiliary configuration to recover the second configuration which is the main configuration, so as to obtain the third configuration. For example, the power carrier module uses the auxiliary configuration to restore the second configuration that is the main configuration, to obtain the third configuration, including: and the power carrier module establishes association relations between names and values of various types of parameters in the main configuration by using the auxiliary configuration to obtain the third configuration.

Optionally, the time-frequency resources carrying the two reception beams included in the primary reception beam are discontinuous, and the time-frequency resources carrying the one reception beam included in the secondary reception beam are continuous.

In a second aspect, an electric energy meter power carrier HPLC module with a remote upgrade function is provided, and is applied to an electric energy meter, where the power carrier module is configured to: the power carrier module receives a first sending beam from network equipment through a first receiving beam and receives a second sending beam from the network equipment through a second receiving beam within a preset time, wherein the first sending beam carries a first configuration of the electric energy meter, and the second sending beam carries a second configuration of the electric energy meter; the power carrier module determines a third configuration according to the first configuration and the second configuration; and the power carrier module updates the current configuration of the electric energy meter according to the third configuration.

In a possible design, the power carrier module includes a first antenna panel and a second antenna panel, the first receive beam is a main receive beam of the power carrier module, and the main receive beam includes two receive beams that are respectively generated by the first antenna panel and the second antenna panel and are both directed to the network device; and the second receiving beam is a secondary receiving beam of the power carrier module, and the secondary receiving beam comprises one receiving beam which is generated by the first antenna panel or the second antenna panel and is directed to the network device.

Optionally, the first configuration received by the two reception beams included in the primary reception beam is a secondary configuration, and the second configuration received by the one reception beam included in the secondary reception beam is a primary configuration.

The auxiliary configuration is characterized by a first bit sequence with a length of N, N is an integer greater than 1, i traverses 1 to N for the ith bit of the first bit sequence, (i+Yi) mod 2=xi, yi is a random number generated by a pseudo-random algorithm i times, if the value of Xi is 0, the ith bit is carried in a receiving beam generated by the first antenna panel in the main receiving beam, and if the value of Xi is 1, the ith bit is carried in the receiving beam generated by the second antenna panel in the main receiving beam. Or, the auxiliary configuration is characterized by a first bit sequence with a length of N, the main configuration is characterized by a second bit sequence with a length of M, N and M are integers greater than 1, i traverses 1 to N for the ith bit in the bit sequence, (i×m+yi) mod 2=xi, yi is a random number generated i times by a pseudo-random algorithm, if the value of Xi is 0, the ith bit is carried in a receiving beam generated by the first antenna panel in the main receiving beam, and if the value of Xi is 1, the ith bit is carried in a receiving beam generated by the second antenna panel in the main receiving beam.

For example, the primary configuration includes names and values of various types of parameters in the third configuration, and the secondary configuration includes an association relationship between names and values of various types of parameters in the third configuration.

Further, the power carrier module is configured to: and when the first configuration is the auxiliary configuration, the power carrier module uses the auxiliary configuration to recover the second configuration which is the main configuration, so as to obtain the third configuration. For example, the power carrier module uses the auxiliary configuration to restore the second configuration that is the main configuration, to obtain the third configuration, including: and the power carrier module establishes association relations between names and values of various types of parameters in the main configuration by using the auxiliary configuration to obtain the third configuration.

Optionally, the time-frequency resources carrying the two reception beams included in the primary reception beam are discontinuous, and the time-frequency resources carrying the one reception beam included in the secondary reception beam are continuous.

In a third aspect, an electronic device is provided, comprising: a processor and a memory; the memory is for storing a computer program which, when executed by the processor, causes the electronic device to perform the method of the first aspect.

In one possible design, the electronic device according to the third aspect may further include a transceiver. The transceiver may be a transceiver circuit or an interface circuit. The transceiver may be for use in the electronic device of the third aspect to communicate with other electronic devices.

In an embodiment of the present invention, the electronic device in the third aspect may be a terminal, or a chip (system) or other parts or components that may be disposed in the terminal, or a system including the terminal.

In a fourth aspect, there is provided a computer-readable storage medium comprising: computer programs or instructions; the computer program or instructions, when run on a computer, cause the computer to perform the method of the first aspect.

In summary, the method and the system have the following technical effects:

because the power carrier module can use a plurality of receiving beams to receive the configuration from the network at the same time within the preset time, for example, the first receiving beam receives the first transmitting beam from the network device and the second receiving beam receives the second transmitting beam from the network device, so as to reduce the transmission delay of the configuration, and when the power carrier module uses the third configuration determined by the first configuration and the second configuration to upgrade the electric energy meter, the upgrade failure caused by the overtime communication can be avoided.

Drawings

Fig. 1 is a schematic architecture diagram of an upgrade method system of an electric energy meter with a remote upgrade function according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 2 is a flow chart of an upgrading method of an electric energy meter with a remote upgrading function according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 3 is a schematic structural diagram of an electronic device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Detailed Description

The technical scheme of the invention will be described below with reference to the accompanying drawings.

The technical scheme of the embodiment of the invention can be applied to various electric energy meter upgrading method systems with remote upgrading functions, such as a wireless network (Wi-Fi) system, an electric energy meter upgrading method system with remote upgrading functions of any object (vehicle to everything, V2X), an electric energy meter upgrading method system with remote upgrading functions of equipment (D2D), an electric energy meter upgrading method system with remote upgrading functions of the Internet of vehicles, a fourth generation (4th generation,4G) mobile electric energy meter upgrading method system with remote upgrading functions, such as a long-term evolution (long term evolution, LTE) system, a global interconnection microwave access (worldwide interoperability for microwave access, wiMAX) electric energy meter upgrading method system with remote upgrading functions, a fifth generation (5th generation,5G) such as a new air interface (new radio, NR) system, a future electric energy meter upgrading method system with remote upgrading functions and the like.

In the embodiment of the invention, the indication can comprise direct indication and indirect indication, and can also comprise explicit indication and implicit indication. In the specific implementation process, the manner of indicating the information to be indicated is various, for example, but not limited to, the information to be indicated may be directly indicated, such as the information to be indicated itself or an index of the information to be indicated. The information to be indicated can also be indicated indirectly by indicating other information, wherein the other information and the information to be indicated have an association relation. It is also possible to indicate only a part of the information to be indicated, while other parts of the information to be indicated are known or agreed in advance. For example, the indication of the specific information may also be achieved by means of a pre-agreed (e.g., protocol-specified) arrangement sequence of the respective information, thereby reducing the indication overhead to some extent. And meanwhile, the universal part of each information can be identified and indicated uniformly, so that the indication cost caused by independently indicating the same information is reduced.

The specific indication means may be any of various existing indication means, such as, but not limited to, the above indication means, various combinations thereof, and the like. Specific details of various indications may be referred to the prior art and are not described herein. As can be seen from the above, for example, when multiple pieces of information of the same type need to be indicated, different manners of indication of different pieces of information may occur. In a specific implementation process, a required indication mode can be selected according to specific needs, and the selected indication mode is not limited in the embodiment of the present invention, so that the indication mode according to the embodiment of the present invention is understood to cover various methods that can enable a party to be indicated to learn information to be indicated.

It should be understood that the information to be indicated may be sent together as a whole or may be sent separately in a plurality of sub-information, and the sending periods and/or sending timings of these sub-information may be the same or different. Specific transmission method the embodiment of the present invention is not limited. The transmission period and/or the transmission timing of the sub-information may be predefined, for example, predefined according to a protocol, or may be configured by the transmitting end device by transmitting configuration information to the receiving end device.

The "pre-defining" or "pre-configuring" may be implemented by pre-storing corresponding codes, tables, or other manners that may be used to indicate relevant information in the device, and the embodiments of the present invention are not limited to the specific implementation manner. Where "save" may refer to saving in one or more memories. The one or more memories may be provided separately or may be integrated in an encoder or decoder, processor, or electronic device. The one or more memories may also be provided separately as part of a decoder, processor, or electronic device. The type of memory may be any form of storage medium, and embodiments of the invention are not limited in this regard.

The "protocol" related to the embodiment of the present invention may refer to a protocol family in the communication field, a standard protocol similar to a frame structure of the protocol family, or a related protocol applied to a future upgrade method system of an electric energy meter with a remote upgrade function, which is not specifically limited in the embodiment of the present invention.

In the embodiment of the invention, the descriptions of "when … …", "in the case of … …", "if" and "if" all refer to that the device will perform corresponding processing under some objective condition, and are not limited in time, nor do the descriptions require that the device must have a judging action when implementing, nor do the descriptions mean that other limitations exist.

In the description of the embodiments of the present invention, unless otherwise indicated, "/" means that the objects associated in tandem are in a "or" relationship, e.g., A/B may represent A or B; the "and/or" in the embodiment of the present invention is merely an association relationship describing the association object, and indicates that three relationships may exist, for example, a and/or B may indicate: a alone, a and B together, and B alone, wherein A, B may be singular or plural. Also, in the description of the embodiments of the present invention, unless otherwise indicated, "plurality" means two or more than two. "at least one of" or the like means any combination of these items, including any combination of single item(s) or plural items(s). For example, at least one (one) of a, b or c may represent: a, b, c, a-b, a-c, b-c, or a-b-c, wherein a, b, c may be single or plural. In addition, in order to facilitate the clear description of the technical solution of the embodiments of the present invention, in the embodiments of the present invention, the words "first", "second", etc. are used to distinguish the same item or similar items having substantially the same function and effect. It will be appreciated by those of skill in the art that the words "first," "second," and the like do not limit the amount and order of execution, and that the words "first," "second," and the like do not necessarily differ. Meanwhile, in the embodiments of the present invention, words such as "exemplary" or "such as" are used to mean serving as examples, illustrations or explanations. Any embodiment or design described herein as "exemplary" or "e.g." in an embodiment should not be taken as preferred or advantageous over other embodiments or designs. Rather, the use of words such as "exemplary" or "such as" is intended to present related concepts in a concrete fashion that may be readily understood.

The network architecture and the service scenario described in the embodiments of the present application are for more clearly describing the technical solution of the embodiments of the present application, and do not constitute a limitation on the technical solution provided by the embodiments of the present application, and those skilled in the art can know that, with the evolution of the network architecture and the appearance of the new service scenario, the technical solution provided by the embodiments of the present application is applicable to similar technical problems.

In order to facilitate understanding of the embodiments of the present application, an upgrade method system of an electric energy meter with a remote upgrade function, which is shown in fig. 1, will be described in detail. Fig. 3 is a schematic architecture diagram of an upgrade method system of an electric energy meter with a remote upgrade function, where the upgrade method of an electric energy meter with a remote upgrade function is applicable.

As shown in fig. 1, the system for upgrading an electric energy meter with a remote upgrading function may include: a plurality of terminal devices.

The terminal device may be a terminal having a wireless transceiving function or a chip system provided in the terminal. The terminal device may also be referred to as a User Equipment (UE), an access terminal, a subscriber unit, a subscriber station, a mobile station, a remote terminal, a mobile device, a user terminal, a wireless communication device, a user agent, or a user device. The terminal device in the embodiment of the present application may be a mobile phone (mobile phone), a tablet computer (Pad), a computer with a wireless transceiving function, a Virtual Reality (VR) terminal device, an augmented reality (augmented reality, AR) terminal device, a wireless terminal in industrial control (industrial control), a wireless terminal in unmanned driving (self driving), a wireless terminal in remote medical (remote medical), a wireless terminal in smart grid (smart grid), a wireless terminal in transportation security (transportation safety), a wireless terminal in smart city (smart city), a wireless terminal in smart home (smart home), a vehicle-mounted terminal, an RSU with a terminal function, or the like. The terminal device of the present application may also be an in-vehicle module, an in-vehicle component, an in-vehicle chip, or an in-vehicle unit that is built in a vehicle as one or more components or units, and the vehicle may implement the method provided by the present application through the in-vehicle module, the in-vehicle component, the in-vehicle chip, or the in-vehicle unit. The communication between terminals may be a communication between terminals, which may also be referred to as side-by-side communication.

The terminal device is provided with a plurality of antenna panels (paths), such as a first antenna panel and a second antenna panel. Each of the plurality of antenna panels may transmit or receive a plurality of beams in a different direction, referred to as the plurality of beams of the antenna panel.

A beam refers to a special transmitting or receiving effect with directivity formed by a transmitter or receiver of a network device or terminal through an antenna array, similar to a beam formed by a flashlight converging light into one direction. The signal is sent and received in a beam mode, so that the transmission data distance of the signal can be effectively improved. The beams used for communication between terminals may also be referred to as sidelobes.

The beam may be a wide beam, or a narrow beam, or other type of beam. The technique of forming the beam may be a beamforming technique or other technique. The beamforming technique may specifically be a digital beamforming technique, an analog beamforming technique, or a hybrid digital/analog beamforming technique, etc.

The beams generally correspond to resources. For example, when performing beam measurement, the network device measures different beams through different resources, the terminal feeds back the measured resource quality, and the network device can know the quality of the corresponding beam. During data transmission, the beam can also be indicated by its corresponding resource. For example, the network device indicates a transmission configuration indication-state (state) through a transmission configuration number (transmission configuration index, TCI) field in downlink control information (downlink control information, DCI), and the terminal determines a beam corresponding to the reference resource according to the reference resource included in the TCI-state.

In a communication protocol, the beams may be characterized specifically as digital beams, analog beams, spatial filters (spatial domain filter), spatial filters (spatial filters), spatial parameters (spatial parameter), TCI-states, etc. The beam used to transmit the signal may be referred to as a transmit beam (transmission beam, or Tx beam), spatial transmit filter (spatial domain transmission filter), spatial transmit filter (spatial transmission filter), spatial transmit parameters (spatial domain transmission parameter), spatial transmit parameters (spatial transmission parameter), and the like. The beams used to receive the signals may be referred to as receive beams (or Rx beams), spatial receive filters (spatial domain reception filter), spatial receive filters (spatial reception filter), spatial receive parameters (spatial domain reception parameter), spatial receive parameters (spatial reception parameter), and the like.

It will be appreciated that embodiments of the application are described in terms of beams in general, but that beams may alternatively be understood as other equivalent concepts and are not limited to the concepts mentioned above.

It may be further understood that the embodiment of the present application is described by taking an example that the terminal device is a power carrier HPLC module.

Fig. 2 is a schematic flow chart of a method according to an embodiment of the present invention. The upgrading method of the electric energy meter with the remote upgrading function is applicable to the system and relates to interaction between the power carrier HPLC module, namely the terminal and network equipment.

The specific flow is as follows:

s201, the power carrier module receives a first sending beam from the network device through a first receiving beam and receives a second sending beam from the network device through a second receiving beam within a preset time.

The first transmitting beam carries a first configuration of the electric energy meter, and the second transmitting beam carries a second configuration of the electric energy meter.

In one possible design, the power carrier module includes a first antenna panel and a second antenna panel, and the first receive beam is a main receive beam of the power carrier module, where the main receive beam includes two receive beams that are respectively generated by the first antenna panel and the second antenna panel and are both directed to the network device. And the second receive beam is a secondary receive beam of the power carrier module, the secondary receive beam comprising one receive beam generated by the first antenna panel or the second antenna panel directed to the network device.

It can be seen that since the primary reception beam is a beam that is received using two reception beams simultaneously, and has higher reliability and safety than the secondary reception beam that is received using one reception beam, the primary reception beam can be used to carry information that is smaller in data amount but critical (or important), and the secondary reception beam can be used to carry information that is larger in data amount but relatively generalized, as described in detail below.

Optionally, the first configuration received by the two reception beams included in the primary reception beam is a secondary configuration, and the second configuration received by the one reception beam included in the secondary reception beam is a primary configuration. For example, the primary configuration may include names and values of various types of parameters in the third configuration, and the secondary configuration may include an association relationship of names and values of various types of parameters in the third configuration. It can be seen that the primary configuration may be relatively large data and the secondary configuration may be relatively generalized information where the amount of data is relatively small but critical (or important). If a third party attacker steals the main configuration, the third party attacker cannot learn the specific meaning of the information because the third party attacker does not know the association relation between the name and the value, but if the third party attacker steals the auxiliary configuration, the third party attacker can determine the meaning of the information in the main configuration according to the association relation between the name and the value, so the auxiliary configuration is less information but more critical and important configuration information, the auxiliary configuration needs to be received by a main receiving beam, and correspondingly, network equipment needs to be sent by a main sending beam. The primary transmit beam and the primary receive beam are a beam pair, i.e., the beams that are generated by the two antenna panels, respectively, and are both directed toward the terminal. In addition, the primary configuration also requires the network device to transmit by a secondary transmit beam, which is also a beam pair with a secondary receive beam, i.e. a beam generated by one antenna panel and directed towards the terminal.

The primary transmit beam and the primary receive beam may be determined by the terminal and the network device through a beam management procedure, e.g., determining the best receive beam on one antenna panel of the terminal and the best transmit beam on one antenna panel of the network device, and the best receive beam on the other antenna panel of the terminal and the best transmit beam on the other antenna panel of the network device as the primary transmit beam and the primary receive beam. Similarly, the best receiving beam on one antenna panel of the terminal and the best transmitting beam on one antenna panel of the network device, and the best receiving beam on the other antenna panel of the terminal and the best transmitting beam on the other antenna panel of the network device, a pair of beams with better signal quality are used as the auxiliary transmitting beam and the auxiliary receiving beam.

The auxiliary configuration is characterized by a first bit sequence with the length of N, N is an integer greater than 1, i traverses 1 to N for the ith bit of the first bit sequence, (i+Yi) mod 2=xi, yi is a random number generated by a pseudo-random algorithm i times, if the value of Xi is 0, the ith bit is carried in a receiving beam generated by a first antenna panel in a main receiving beam, and if the value of Xi is 1, the ith bit is carried in a receiving beam generated by a second antenna panel in the main receiving beam. Alternatively, the secondary configuration is characterized by a first bit sequence of length N, the primary configuration is characterized by a second bit sequence of length M, N and M are integers greater than 1, i traverses 1 to N for the ith bit in the bit sequence, (i×m+yi) mod 2=xi, yi is a random number generated i times by a pseudo-random algorithm, if the value of Xi is 0, it means that the ith bit is carried in a receiving beam generated by the first antenna panel in the primary receiving beam, and if the value of Xi is 1, it means that the ith bit is carried in a receiving beam generated by the second antenna panel in the primary receiving beam.

In this way, in view of the third party attacker, the N bits of the main configuration can be mapped to the two receiving beams of the main receiving beam randomly, and the third party attacker cannot splice the main configuration according to the bit information respectively carried by the two receiving beams due to the black box of the pseudo-random algorithm for the third party attacker.

Optionally, due to higher transmission security requirements of the secondary configuration, time-frequency resources received by two receiving beams contained in the primary receiving beam are discontinuous, so as to avoid a third party attacker from monitoring and acquiring on the continuous time-frequency resources. Similarly, because the data size of the primary configuration is relatively large, the time-frequency resource carrying one receiving beam contained in the secondary receiving beam is continuous, so as to ensure that the receiving end can quickly and efficiently receive the primary configuration from the continuous time-frequency resource.

S202, the power carrier module determines a third configuration according to the first configuration and the second configuration.

Further, the power carrier module determines a third configuration according to the first configuration and the second configuration, including: and when the first configuration is the auxiliary configuration, the power carrier module uses the auxiliary configuration to recover the second configuration which is the main configuration, so as to obtain the third configuration. For example, the power carrier module may use the auxiliary configuration to establish an association between names and values of various types of parameters in the main configuration, so as to obtain the third configuration.

And S203, the power carrier module updates the current configuration of the electric energy meter according to the third configuration.

In summary, since the power carrier module can use multiple receiving beams to receive the configuration from the network at the same time within the preset time, for example, the first receiving beam receives the first transmitting beam from the network device and the second receiving beam receives the second transmitting beam from the network device, so as to reduce the transmission delay of the configuration, when the power carrier module uses the third configuration determined by the first configuration and the second configuration to upgrade the electric energy meter, the upgrade failure caused by the overtime communication can be avoided.

The method provided by the embodiment of the application is described in detail above with reference to fig. 2. The following is a detailed description of an electric energy meter power carrier HPLC module with a remote upgrade function for executing the method provided by the embodiment of the application. Applied to the electric energy meter, the power carrier module is configured to: the power carrier module receives a first sending beam from network equipment through a first receiving beam and receives a second sending beam from the network equipment through a second receiving beam within a preset time, wherein the first sending beam carries a first configuration of the electric energy meter, and the second sending beam carries a second configuration of the electric energy meter; the power carrier module determines a third configuration according to the first configuration and the second configuration; and the power carrier module updates the current configuration of the electric energy meter according to the third configuration.

In a possible design, the power carrier module includes a first antenna panel and a second antenna panel, the first receive beam is a main receive beam of the power carrier module, and the main receive beam includes two receive beams that are respectively generated by the first antenna panel and the second antenna panel and are both directed to the network device; and the second receiving beam is a secondary receiving beam of the power carrier module, and the secondary receiving beam comprises one receiving beam which is generated by the first antenna panel or the second antenna panel and is directed to the network device.

Optionally, the first configuration received by the two reception beams included in the primary reception beam is a secondary configuration, and the second configuration received by the one reception beam included in the secondary reception beam is a primary configuration.

The auxiliary configuration is characterized by a first bit sequence with a length of N, N is an integer greater than 1, i traverses 1 to N for the ith bit of the first bit sequence, (i+Yi) mod 2=xi, yi is a random number generated by a pseudo-random algorithm i times, if the value of Xi is 0, the ith bit is carried in a receiving beam generated by the first antenna panel in the main receiving beam, and if the value of Xi is 1, the ith bit is carried in the receiving beam generated by the second antenna panel in the main receiving beam. Or, the auxiliary configuration is characterized by a first bit sequence with a length of N, the main configuration is characterized by a second bit sequence with a length of M, N and M are integers greater than 1, i traverses 1 to N for the ith bit in the bit sequence, (i×m+yi) mod 2=xi, yi is a random number generated i times by a pseudo-random algorithm, if the value of Xi is 0, the ith bit is carried in a receiving beam generated by the first antenna panel in the main receiving beam, and if the value of Xi is 1, the ith bit is carried in a receiving beam generated by the second antenna panel in the main receiving beam.

For example, the primary configuration includes names and values of various types of parameters in the third configuration, and the secondary configuration includes an association relationship between names and values of various types of parameters in the third configuration.

Further, the power carrier module is configured to: and when the first configuration is the auxiliary configuration, the power carrier module uses the auxiliary configuration to recover the second configuration which is the main configuration, so as to obtain the third configuration. For example, the power carrier module uses the auxiliary configuration to restore the second configuration that is the main configuration, to obtain the third configuration, including: and the power carrier module establishes association relations between names and values of various types of parameters in the main configuration by using the auxiliary configuration to obtain the third configuration.

Optionally, the time-frequency resources carrying the two reception beams included in the primary reception beam are discontinuous, and the time-frequency resources carrying the one reception beam included in the secondary reception beam are continuous.

Fig. 3 is a schematic structural diagram of an electronic device according to an embodiment of the present invention. The electronic device may be a network device, or may be a chip (system) or other part or component that may be disposed on the network device, for example. As shown in fig. 3, the electronic device 400 may include a processor 401. Optionally, the electronic device 400 may also include memory 402 and/or a transceiver 403. Wherein the processor 401 is coupled to the memory 402 and the transceiver 403, e.g. may be connected by a communication bus.

The following describes the various constituent elements of the electronic device 400 in detail with reference to fig. 3:

the processor 401 is a control center of the electronic device 400, and may be one processor or a collective name of a plurality of processing elements. For example, processor 401 is one or more central processing units (central processing unit, CPU) and may also be an integrated circuit (application specific integrated circuit, ASIC) or one or more integrated circuits configured to implement embodiments of the present invention, such as: one or more microprocessors (digital signal processor, DSPs), or one or more field programmable gate arrays (field programmable gate array, FPGAs).

Alternatively, the processor 401 may execute various functions of the electronic device 400, such as the upgrade method of the electric energy meter with the remote upgrade function shown in fig. 3 described above, by running or executing a software program stored in the memory 402 and calling data stored in the memory 402.

In a particular implementation, processor 401 may include one or more CPUs, such as CPU0 and CPU1 shown in FIG. 3, as an embodiment.

In a particular implementation, electronic device 400 may also include multiple processors, as one embodiment. Each of these processors may be a single-core processor (single-CPU) or a multi-core processor (multi-CPU). A processor herein may refer to one or more devices, circuits, and/or processing cores for processing data (e.g., computer program instructions).

The memory 402 is configured to store a software program for executing the solution of the present invention, and the processor 401 controls the execution of the software program, and the specific implementation may refer to the above method embodiment, which is not described herein again.

Alternatively, memory 402 may be, but is not limited to, read-only memory (ROM) or other type of static storage device that may store static information and instructions, random access memory (random access memory, RAM) or other type of dynamic storage device that may store information and instructions, but may also be electrically erasable programmable read-only memory (electrically erasable programmable read-only memory, EEPROM), compact disc read-only memory (compact disc read-only memory) or other optical disk storage, optical disk storage (including compact disc, laser disc, optical disc, digital versatile disc, blu-ray disc, etc.), magnetic disk storage media or other magnetic storage devices, or any other medium that can be used to carry or store desired program code in the form of instructions or data structures and that can be accessed by a computer. The memory 402 may be integrated with the processor 401 or may exist separately and be coupled to the processor 401 through an interface circuit (not shown in fig. 3) of the electronic device 400, which is not specifically limited by the embodiment of the present invention.

A transceiver 403 for communication with other electronic devices. For example, electronic device 400 is a terminal and transceiver 403 may be used to communicate with a network device or with another terminal device. As another example, electronic device 400 is a network device and transceiver 403 may be used to communicate with a terminal or with another network device.

Alternatively, the transceiver 403 may include a receiver and a transmitter (not separately shown in fig. 3). The receiver is used for realizing the receiving function, and the transmitter is used for realizing the transmitting function.

Alternatively, transceiver 403 may be integrated with processor 401 or may exist separately and be coupled to processor 401 by an interface circuit (not shown in fig. 3) of electronic device 400, as embodiments of the invention are not specifically limited in this regard.

It will be appreciated that the configuration of the electronic device 400 shown in fig. 3 is not limiting of the electronic device, and that an actual electronic device may include more or fewer components than shown, or may combine certain components, or a different arrangement of components.

In addition, the technical effects of the electronic device 400 may refer to the technical effects of the method described in the above method embodiments, which are not described herein.

It should be appreciated that the processor in embodiments of the invention may be a central processing unit (central processing unit, CPU), which may also be other general purpose processors, digital signal processors (digital signal processor, DSP), application specific integrated circuits (application specific integrated circuit, ASIC), off-the-shelf programmable gate arrays (field programmable gate array, FPGA) or other programmable logic devices, discrete gate or transistor logic devices, discrete hardware components, or the like. A general purpose processor may be a microprocessor or the processor may be any conventional processor or the like.

It should also be appreciated that the memory in embodiments of the present invention may be either volatile memory or nonvolatile memory, or may include both volatile and nonvolatile memory. The nonvolatile memory may be a read-only memory (ROM), a Programmable ROM (PROM), an Erasable PROM (EPROM), an electrically Erasable EPROM (EEPROM), or a flash memory. The volatile memory may be random access memory (random access memory, RAM) which acts as an external cache. By way of example but not limitation, many forms of random access memory (random access memory, RAM) are available, such as Static RAM (SRAM), dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM), synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory (SDRAM), double data rate synchronous dynamic random access memory (DDR SDRAM), enhanced Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory (ESDRAM), synchronous Link DRAM (SLDRAM), and direct memory bus RAM (DR RAM).

The above embodiments may be implemented in whole or in part by software, hardware (e.g., circuitry), firmware, or any other combination. When implemented in software, the above-described embodiments may be implemented in whole or in part in the form of a computer program product. The computer program product comprises one or more computer instructions or computer programs. When the computer instructions or computer program are loaded or executed on a computer, the processes or functions described in accordance with embodiments of the present invention are produced in whole or in part. The computer may be a general purpose computer, a special purpose computer, a computer network, or other programmable apparatus. The computer instructions may be stored in a computer-readable storage medium or transmitted from one computer-readable storage medium to another computer-readable storage medium, for example, the computer instructions may be transmitted from one website site, computer, server, or data center to another website site, computer, server, or data center by wired (e.g., infrared, wireless, microwave, etc.). The computer readable storage medium may be any available medium that can be accessed by a computer or a data storage device such as a server, data center, etc. that contains one or more sets of available media. The usable medium may be a magnetic medium (e.g., floppy disk, hard disk, magnetic tape), an optical medium (e.g., DVD), or a semiconductor medium. The semiconductor medium may be a solid state disk.

It should be understood that the term "and/or" is merely an association relationship describing the associated object, and means that three relationships may exist, for example, a and/or B may mean: there are three cases, a alone, a and B together, and B alone, wherein a, B may be singular or plural. In addition, the character "/" herein generally indicates that the associated object is an "or" relationship, but may also indicate an "and/or" relationship, and may be understood by referring to the context.

In the present invention, "at least one" means one or more, and "a plurality" means two or more. "at least one of" or the like means any combination of these items, including any combination of single item(s) or plural items(s). For example, at least one (one) of a, b, or c may represent: a, b, c, a-b, a-c, b-c, or a-b-c, wherein a, b, c may be single or plural.

It should be understood that, in various embodiments of the present invention, the sequence numbers of the foregoing processes do not mean the order of execution, and the order of execution of the processes should be determined by the functions and internal logic thereof, and should not constitute any limitation on the implementation process of the embodiments of the present invention.

Those of ordinary skill in the art will appreciate that the various illustrative elements and algorithm steps described in connection with the embodiments disclosed herein may be implemented as electronic hardware, or combinations of computer software and electronic hardware. Whether such functionality is implemented as hardware or software depends upon the particular application and design constraints imposed on the solution. Skilled artisans may implement the described functionality in varying ways for each particular application, but such implementation decisions should not be interpreted as causing a departure from the scope of the present invention.

It will be clear to those skilled in the art that, for convenience and brevity of description, specific working procedures of the above-described systems, apparatuses and units may refer to corresponding procedures in the foregoing method embodiments, and are not repeated herein.

In the several embodiments provided by the present invention, it should be understood that the disclosed systems, devices, and methods may be implemented in other manners. For example, the apparatus embodiments described above are merely illustrative, e.g., the division of the units is merely a logical function division, and there may be additional divisions when actually implemented, e.g., multiple units or components may be combined or integrated into another system, or some features may be omitted or not performed. Alternatively, the coupling or direct coupling or communication connection shown or discussed with each other may be an indirect coupling or communication connection via some interfaces, devices or units, which may be in electrical, mechanical or other form.

The units described as separate units may or may not be physically separate, and units shown as units may or may not be physical units, may be located in one place, or may be distributed on a plurality of network units. Some or all of the units may be selected according to actual needs to achieve the purpose of the solution of this embodiment.

In addition, each functional unit in the embodiments of the present invention may be integrated in one processing unit, or each unit may exist alone physically, or two or more units may be integrated in one unit.

The functions, if implemented in the form of software functional units and sold or used as a stand-alone product, may be stored in a computer-readable storage medium. Based on this understanding, the technical solution of the present invention may be embodied essentially or in a part contributing to the prior art or in a part of the technical solution, in the form of a software product stored in a storage medium, comprising several instructions for causing a computer device (which may be a personal computer, a server, a network device, etc.) to perform all or part of the steps of the method according to the embodiments of the present invention. And the aforementioned storage medium includes: a U-disk, a removable hard disk, a read-only memory (ROM), a random access memory (random access memory, RAM), a magnetic disk, or an optical disk, or other various media capable of storing program codes.

The foregoing is merely illustrative of the present invention, and the present invention is not limited thereto, and any person skilled in the art will readily recognize that variations or substitutions are within the scope of the present invention. Therefore, the protection scope of the present invention shall be subject to the protection scope of the claims.

Claims (10)

1. An upgrading method of an electric energy meter with a remote upgrading function is characterized by being applied to an electric carrier HPLC module, and comprises the following steps:

the power carrier module receives a first sending beam from network equipment through a first receiving beam and receives a second sending beam from the network equipment through a second receiving beam within a preset time, wherein the first sending beam carries a first configuration of the electric energy meter, and the second sending beam carries a second configuration of the electric energy meter;

the power carrier module determines a third configuration according to the first configuration and the second configuration;

and the power carrier module updates the current configuration of the electric energy meter according to the third configuration.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the power carrier module comprises a first antenna panel and a second antenna panel, the first receive beam being a primary receive beam of the power carrier module, the primary receive beam comprising two receive beams that are generated by the first antenna panel and the second antenna panel, respectively, and that are both directed toward the network device;

And the second receiving beam is a secondary receiving beam of the power carrier module, and the secondary receiving beam comprises one receiving beam which is generated by the first antenna panel or the second antenna panel and is directed to the network device.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the first configuration received over two of the receive beams included in the primary receive beam is a secondary configuration and the second configuration received over one of the receive beams included in the secondary receive beam is a primary configuration.

4. A method according to claim 3, wherein the secondary configuration is characterized by a first bit sequence of length N, N being an integer greater than 1, i traversing 1 to N for the ith bit of the first bit sequence, (i+yi) mod2 = Xi, yi being a random number generated i times by a pseudo-random algorithm, if Xi has a value of 0, indicating that the ith bit is carried in a receive beam generated by the first antenna panel in the primary receive beam, and if Xi has a value of 1, indicating that the ith bit is carried in a receive beam generated by the second antenna panel in the primary receive beam.

5. A method according to claim 3, wherein the secondary configuration is characterized by a first bit sequence of length N, the primary configuration is characterized by a second bit sequence of length M, N and M are integers greater than 1, i traverses 1 to N for the ith bit in the bit sequence, (i x m+yi) mod2 = Xi, yi is a random number generated i times by a pseudo-random algorithm, if Xi has a value of 0, it means that the ith bit is carried in a receive beam generated by the first antenna panel in the primary receive beam, and if Xi has a value of 1, it means that the ith bit is carried in a receive beam generated by the second antenna panel in the primary receive beam.

6. The method according to claim 4 or 5, wherein the primary configuration includes names and values of various types of parameters in the third configuration, and the secondary configuration includes an association relationship between names and values of various types of parameters in the third configuration.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the power carrier module determining a third configuration from the first configuration and the second configuration comprises:

and when the first configuration is the auxiliary configuration, the power carrier module uses the auxiliary configuration to recover the second configuration which is the main configuration, so as to obtain the third configuration.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the power carrier module using the secondary configuration to restore the second configuration to the primary configuration to the third configuration comprises:

and the power carrier module establishes association relations between names and values of various types of parameters in the main configuration by using the auxiliary configuration to obtain the third configuration.

9. The method according to any of claims 2-4, wherein the time-frequency resources carrying the two receive beams comprised by the primary receive beam are discontinuous and the time-frequency resources carrying the one receive beam comprised by the secondary receive beam are continuous.

10. An electric energy meter power carrier HPLC module that possesses remote upgrading function, characterized in that is applied to the electric energy meter, the power carrier module is configured as: the power carrier module receives a first sending beam from network equipment through a first receiving beam and receives a second sending beam from the network equipment through a second receiving beam within a preset time, wherein the first sending beam carries a first configuration of the electric energy meter, and the second sending beam carries a second configuration of the electric energy meter; the power carrier module determines a third configuration according to the first configuration and the second configuration; and the power carrier module updates the current configuration of the electric energy meter according to the third configuration.