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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 14, 2024
Filed:
Jan. 20, 2022
Diehl Metering Systems Gmbh, Nuremberg, DE;
Hristo Petkov, Nuremberg, DE;
Christoph Schmidt, Nuremberg, DE;
Thomas Kauppert, Nuremberg, DE;
Klaus Gottschalk, Winkelhaid, DE;
Simon Schroeter, Erlangen, DE;
Benjamin Meyer, Nuremberg, DE;
Diehl Metering Systems GmbH, Nuremberg, DE;
Abstract
A method detects the surroundings of a node, in particular in the form of a sensor apparatus and/or actuator apparatus, of a communications network. The node is capable of unidirectional or bidirectional radio communication and has a radio module equipped with an antenna, a transmit path and/or receive path, and a power supply apparatus, which is preferably energy self-sufficient, in particular a battery. The surroundings are detected, preferably at repeated time intervals, on the basis of an estimate of the detuning of the antenna of the radio module.