Electronic meter for networked meter reading

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United States of America Patent

APP PUB NO 20090115626A1
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11979449

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An automatic meter reading (AMR) data communication network for relaying meter commodity information includes a commodity provider node, a gateway node configured to communicate with the commodity provider node, and meter nodes configured to measure commodity characteristic data and communicate with the gateway node and with other meter nodes. A source node of the meter nodes generates a data packet that includes meter commodity information to be relayed to the commodity provider node, and when a first meter node of the meter nodes receives the source data packet, the first meter node relays the source data packet to a second node. The second node can include another meter node, a repeater node, the gateway node, or the commodity provider node. In an embodiment, the first meter node determines whether the data packet specifies a relay path for relaying the source data packet to the commodity provider node.

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ITRON NETWORKED SOLUTIONS INC2111 N MOLTER ROAD LIBERTY LAKE WA 99019

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Dresselhuys, Donn R Shorewood, US 20 1460
Flammer,, III George Cupertino , US 19 1257
Vaswani, Raj Portola Valley, US 64 2678

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