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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 23, 2019
Filed:
Aug. 31, 2017
Power-line communication systems amd methods having location-extendable collector for end-point data
Landis+gyr Technologies, Llc, Pequot Lakes, MN (US);
Stuart Haug, Hackensack, MN (US);
Damian Bonicatto, Pequot Lakes, MN (US);
Rolf Flen, Pequot Lakes, MN (US);
Robert Zeppetelle, Cumming, GA (US);
Landis+Gyr Technologies, LLC, Pequot Lakes, MN (US);
Abstract
Power-line communication (PLC) systems collect information over power lines from end-point devices respectively associated with customer sites, for assessment by a central processing circuit operated on behalf of a power utility company. In the PLC system, each of a number of PLC data-collector circuits includes a plurality of data interface units and PLC end-point device data computation circuit. Typically, one data interface circuit is located proximate, and another is distal, the location of the computation circuit. Each data interface unit includes a transformer circuit for selectively receiving data from a subset of the end-point devices via the power lines, a transformer-coupling circuit for selectively sending data to the subset of the end-point devices via the power lines, and a high-throughput data driver circuit for outputting data in accordance with a data-transfer protocol which is common to the other high throughput driver circuits which operate in accordance with the data-transfer protocol.