Commodity monitoring network

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2011-01-11

2011-01-11

Wong, Albert K (Department: 2612)

Communications: electrical

Continuously variable indicating

Plural transmitters

C340S870020, C370S401000, C370S437000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07868782

ABSTRACT:
An electronic electric meter for use in a networked automatic meter reading environment. The meter includes a meter microcontroller, a measurement microcontroller, a communication microcontroller and spread spectrum processor, and a plurality of other communication interface modules for communicating commodity utilization and power quality data to a utility. The meter measures electricity usage and monitors power quality parameters for transmission to the utility over a spread spectrum local area network (LAN) to a remotely located gateway node. The gateway node transmits this data to the utility over a commercially available fixed wide area network (WAN). The meter also provides direct communication to the utility over a commercially available network interface that plugs into the meter's backplane or bus system, bypassing the local area network communication link and gateway node.

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