Landis+gyr Innovations, Inc.

Eric J Kramer

James Davis

Siva Suthram

Arun Gupta

Bonny Hicks

Disclosed are various embodiments for transmitting data between an integrated head-end system and endpoint devices of a utility metering system. The utility metering system may include a single head-end system including an application layer, an end-device protocol layer, and a network protocol layer operable to generate messages for transmitting to the endpoint devices to obtain metering information. The layers may also be operable to interpret messages received from the endpoint devices including the metering information and convert the messages into a usable format. In some aspects, the end-device protocol layer and the network protocol layer may include adapters for converting information included in the messages based on a metering protocol or network protocol, respectively, used by the endpoint devices.

Integrated head-end utility metering system

Systems and methods automatically detect missing data and attempt to collect the missing data. The missing data may be related to a data reading or may be related to an event. The missing data is detected by comparing a communication received from an endpoint with previously received communications from the endpoint. The communication technology used by the endpoint may be considered in determining how to detect missing data and how to request the missing data from the endpoint. A single headend system may communicate with endpoints that use different communication technologies by adjusting the speed, batch size and the retry process used.

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Eric J Kramer