Elster Electricity, LLC

David F Dunn

Rodney C Hemminger

Garry M Loy

Charles Cunningham, Jr

Peter Meyer

A communications module that permits remote meter reading of a utility meter via a wireless modem that communicates using data packet networks along a communications system, such as ARDIS. The communications module is a microprocessor-based transmitter/receiver which receives data collection requests from a system server, initiates data collection from a utility meter, and reports the data back to a host computer system residing, for example, at a central office. Preferably, session-based communication using the meter protocol is implemented between the communications module and the meter, and packet switching is used between the communications server and the communications module through the network.

Growing community of inventors

Raleigh, NC, United States of America

David F Dunn