Simultaneous communications within controlled mesh network

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 8279778
APP PUB NO 20100329174A1
SERIAL NO

12490718

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A wireless mesh network, method of operating a wireless mesh network, and a central node device are disclosed herein. Communications are interleaved to maintain a spatial differential, for example, two “hops,” between any two nodes transmitting in proximity to the collector. In one embodiment, a wireless mesh network includes a central node and a plurality of bidirectional nodes in bidirectional wireless communication with the central node. Each bidirectional node has a respective wireless communication path to the central node that is either a direct path or an indirect path through one or more intermediate bidirectional nodes. Each bidirectional node is characterized by a number of intermediate bidirectional nodes forming a respective wireless communication path to the central node. The central node isolates a first data communication from a first node from second data communications from other nodes that are within a defined threshold of hop levels of the first node.

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ELSTER ELECTRICITY LLC208 SOUTH ROGERS LANE RALEIGH NC 27610

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Shuey, Kenneth C Zebulon, US 77 3983

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