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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 30, 2021
Filed:
Oct. 30, 2018
Diehl Metering Systems Gmbh, Nuremberg, DE;
Diehl Metering Gmbh, Ansbach, DE;
Hristo Petkov, Nuremberg, DE;
Thomas Lautenbacher, Erlangen, DE;
Thomas Kauppert, Nuremberg, DE;
Klaus Gottschalk, Winkelhaid, DE;
Raphael Mzyk, Kammerstein, DE;
Philip Roehrle, Ansbach, DE;
Michael Traenkler, Nuremberg, DE;
Diehl Metering Systems GmbH, Nuremberg, DE;
Diehl Metering GmbH, Ansbach, DE;
Abstract
A method provides communication between a meter and a flying device. The meter records consumption data. The flying device performs flight movements to a prescribed target position of the meter. Radio signals are received by a reception device and information is ascertained, relating to the transmission quality of a radio channel, based on the received signals. A poor transmission quality, satisfaction of which is dependent on the quality of the information, results in the reception of received signals and the ascertainment of the information being repeated after a communication protocol for communication with the meter has been changed, a position of the flying device being altered and/or a directivity of the reception device is altered until the transmission quality or a termination condition is satisfied. Upon having a satisfactory quality condition, meter information is captured and a message for controlling the operation of the meter is sent to the meter.