Title :
A pipelined automatic meter reading scheme
Author :
Jin, Yucheng ; Cox, Mickey D.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng, Louisiana Tech. Univ., Ruston, LA, USA
Abstract :
A communication scheme for radio-linked automatic meter reading (AMR) systems is presented. This scheme broadcasts a wake-up signal to all the meters that are to be read. It requires at most two frequency channels for both the wake-up signal and the returning data. The wake-up signal is sent only once for a specified group of meters and then the readings from that group of meters are returned in a pipelined fashion. The operation of a radio linked AMR is briefly reviewed. The details of the proposed communication scheme are then discussed and the results are summarized
Keywords :
computerised instrumentation; data communication; pipeline processing; power measurement; power system measurement; radiotelemetry; high level data link; pipelined automatic meter reading; radio linked meters; wake-up signal; Automatic meter reading; Delay; Frequency; Meter reading; Radio broadcasting; Radio communication; Scattering; Signal processing; Spread spectrum communication; Testing;
Conference_Titel :
Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference, 1993. IMTC/93. Conference Record., IEEE
Conference_Location :
Irvine, CA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-1229-5
DOI :
10.1109/IMTC.1993.382550
