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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 16, 2025
Filed:
Mar. 15, 2022
Applicant:
Itron, Inc., Liberty Lake, WA (US);
Inventor:
Bruce Edwards, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
ITRON, INC., Liberty Lake, WA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H02J 7/00 (2006.01); H02J 7/34 (2006.01); H02J 7/35 (2006.01); H04W 52/02 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H02J 7/35 (2013.01); H02J 7/0068 (2013.01); H02J 7/342 (2020.01); H04W 52/0296 (2013.01);
Abstract
A network device for installation at a geographic location includes a rechargeable power cell configured to store a first amount of energy sufficient to power the network device during a longest night of a year at the geographic location without the rechargeable power cell being fully depleted and a solar panel configured to generate a second amount of energy sufficient to, during any given cloudy day at the geographic location, power the network device and fully recharge the rechargeable power cell.