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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 02, 2012
Filed:
Jun. 24, 2009
Kenneth C. Shuey, Zebulon, NC (US);
Kenneth C. Shuey, Zebulon, NC (US);
Elster Electricity, LLC, Raleigh, NC (US);
Abstract
A wireless mesh network, method of operating a wireless mesh network, and a central node device are disclosed herein. Communications are interleaved to maintain a spatial differential, for example, two 'hops,' between any two nodes transmitting in proximity to the collector. In one embodiment, a wireless mesh network includes a central node and a plurality of bidirectional nodes in bidirectional wireless communication with the central node. Each bidirectional node has a respective wireless communication path to the central node that is either a direct path or an indirect path through one or more intermediate bidirectional nodes. Each bidirectional node is characterized by a number of intermediate bidirectional nodes forming a respective wireless communication path to the central node. The central node isolates a first data communication from a first node from second data communications from other nodes that are within a defined threshold of hop levels of the first node.