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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 13, 2020
Filed:
Oct. 26, 2018
Diehl Metering Systems Gmbh, Nuremberg, DE;
Hristo Petkov, Nuremberg, DE;
Thomas Lautenbacher, Erlangen, DE;
Thomas Kauppert, Nuremberg, DE;
Klaus Gottschalk, Winkelhaid, DE;
Raphael Mzyk, Kammerstein, DE;
Diehl Metering Systems GmbH, Nuremberg, DE;
Abstract
To optimally receive smart meter control messages transmitted by a concentrator, in a meter having a transceiver for bidirectional data interchange, despite its minimal resources, a current modulation reference frequency which is subject to drift is shifted by the instantaneous frequency difference between the current transmitter-side reference frequency and the current transceiver-side reference frequency in the concentrator. Therefore, the current reference frequencies correspond in the downlink without having to intervene in the meter. This frequency difference in the concentrator is obtained by comparing the current receiver-side demodulation reference frequency with the current transmitter-side reference frequency, and the current transceiver-side reference frequency, on the other hand, from messages from the transmitter of the concentrator and from the transceiver of the meter which are received using the receiver of the concentrator. A frequency-measuring comparator only needs to be connected upstream and downstream of the demodulator in the concentrator for this purpose.