WO2000057382A3 - A wireles amr network - Google Patents

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WO2000057382A3
WO2000057382A3 PCT/US2000/007485 US0007485W WO0057382A3 WO 2000057382 A3 WO2000057382 A3 WO 2000057382A3 US 0007485 W US0007485 W US 0007485W WO 0057382 A3 WO0057382 A3 WO 0057382A3
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metering
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Lawrence P Muirhead
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Conectisys Corp
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G08—SIGNALLING
    • G08C—TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS FOR MEASURED VALUES, CONTROL OR SIMILAR SIGNALS
    • G08C17/00—Arrangements for transmitting signals characterised by the use of a wireless electrical link
    • G08C17/02—Arrangements for transmitting signals characterised by the use of a wireless electrical link using a radio link

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An automatic meter reading (AMR) network (100) designed to schedule short range, concurrent data transmissions between metering units (120). Theses concurrent data transmission increase system throughput, reduce data latency and allow low-cost deployment of the AMR network (100). The AMR network (100) comprises a base station (110) and a plurality of metering units (120) arranged in hop layers (1301-130N) with each hop layer (1301-130N) including at least a cluster (1401-140N) of metering units (120). Each metering unit (120) includes an electronic metering device (310) to access metered data and to propagate the metered data to the base station (110). In particular, the electronic metering device (310) includes a processing unit (330), a transceiver (350) and a memory (360). The transceiver (350) modifies the metered data into a recognized message header and data packet. After appropriate configuration and scheduling for the AMR network (100), each metering unit (120) within a cluster (1401-140N) is able to communicate with all other metering units (120) in that cluster (1401-140N) while some of these metering units (120) are in communication with another cluster (1401-140N) or the base station (110).
PCT/US2000/007485 1999-03-24 2000-03-21 A wireles amr network WO2000057382A2 (en)

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