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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 02, 2015
Filed:
Jul. 26, 2012
Hassan Ali, Braintree, MA (US);
Timothy J. Brown, Mattapoisett, MA (US);
Robert Henry Grady, Rumford, RI (US);
David Edwin Splitz, Sandwich, MA (US);
Brent Dukes, Raynham, MA (US);
Hassan Ali, Braintree, MA (US);
Timothy J. Brown, Mattapoisett, MA (US);
Robert Henry Grady, Rumford, RI (US);
David Edwin Splitz, Sandwich, MA (US);
Brent Dukes, Raynham, MA (US);
Mueller International, LLC, Atlanta, GA (US);
Abstract
The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for communicating with a radio frequency (RF) device. An exemplary method includes: listening, by the collector node, during a first listening period, for a hailing signal from a plurality of RF devices on a hailing channel, the hailing signal including identification of a specified data channel; in response to receiving the hailing signal from one of the plurality of RF devices, switching to the specified data channel and receiving data, by the collector node, on the specified data channel; collecting, by the collector node, during a collecting period, data from the plurality of RF devices; receiving, by the collector node, the data from at least one of the plurality of RF devices; and listening, during a second listening period, for an alert notification, wherein the first listening period and the collecting period occur at different times.