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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 09, 2016
Filed:
Sep. 10, 2010
Applicant:
Arnold Cory Solomon, Covington, GA (US);
Inventor:
Arnold Cory Solomon, Covington, GA (US);
Assignee:
Southern Company Services, Inc., Atlanta, GA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G08C 15/06 (2006.01); H04Q 9/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04Q 9/00 (2013.01); H04Q 2209/60 (2013.01); H04Q 2209/86 (2013.01);
Abstract
Disclosed are various embodiments for locating utility metering devices. Utility metering devices are those that are lost or stolen and that are facilitating unauthorized utility service access. Many AMI and/or AMR deployments lack the ability to remotely deactivate a meter. Accordingly, embodiments of this disclosure can generate a zone of interest in which an unauthorized utility metering device is located, and the unauthorized utility metering device can be subsequently located within the zone of interest.