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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 02, 2010
Filed:
May. 14, 2007
Vance P. Spillman, Bristol, RI (US);
Craig H. Rosenquist, Scituate, MA (US);
James G. Hall, Plymouth, MA (US);
Daniel C. Walker, Hanover, MA (US);
Vance P. Spillman, Bristol, RI (US);
Craig H. Rosenquist, Scituate, MA (US);
James G. Hall, Plymouth, MA (US);
Daniel C. Walker, Hanover, MA (US);
Sunrise Technologies, Inc., Rayham, MA (US);
Abstract
A communication system that provides communication of information between an end user device and a remote end user. The system includes a communication node mounted on the upper part of a utility pole, and drawing its power from the utility pole through a standard NEMA Locking 3 Pole Receptacle, and adapted to communicate with a nearby user device using the low-power communication protocol, such as the ZigBee protocol (ANSI IEEE 802.15.4) or Radio Frequency Identification Device (RFID) technology, and also adapted to communicate with a neighborhood mesh network of nodes mounted on utility poles. The neighborhood mesh network is capable of communicating, through a regional computer network, with the remote end user.