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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 30, 2016
Filed:
Oct. 26, 2012
Elster Solutions, Llc, Raleigh, NC (US);
Henrik Gustafsson, Raleigh, NC (US);
Andrew J. Borleske, Garner, NC (US);
Mark Holman, Durham, NC (US);
Roberta Yee, Raleigh, NC (US);
Nicholas Fountas, Cary, NC (US);
Jonathan H. Bailey, Raleigh, NC (US);
Elster Solutions, LLC, Raleigh, NC (US);
Abstract
A metering device may be configured to communicate with other devices in an advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) system. For example, a metering device may be configured to communicate with a collection device. To enable such communications, a collection device may send a wake-up-tone and/or a request message to a metering device. Based on the request message, a metering device may send data to the collection device. Metering communication networks may be mobile and/or fixed. For example, a mobile collection device may use a wireless signal to interrogate a metering device to retrieve data from the metering device.