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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 30, 1995
Filed:
Jan. 21, 1994
Clyde O Peterson, Plum Borough, PA (US);
Joseph C Engel, Monroeville Boro, PA (US);
Denis A Mueller, Asheville, NC (US);
Richard B Bell, Upper St. Clair, PA (US);
Robert L Cather, Wilkins Township, Allegheny County, PA (US);
Eaton Corporation, Cleveland, OH (US);
Abstract
A PC computer monitors the energy consumed at a plurality of local stations placed behind the electrical meter of the utility company for individual billing of the local users, a bidirectional communication line being used between the PC computer and the plurality of local stations. A command from the PC computer causes the totalized energy to be stored at each station, and thereafter the PC computer derives individually the results for separate energy estimations and central billing.