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WO/1999/014606A1
A utility meter interface apparatus is connected between a utility compagny and a home. The utility meter interface includes a utility meter for measuring utility usage and a computer located external to the home. The computer is connect...  
WO/1999/013426A1
An automated meter reading server (15) having an open, distributed architecture that collects, loads, and manages system-wide data collected from energy meters (60) and routes the data automatically to upstream business systems. The auto...  
WO/1999/013676A2
A wide-area remote telemetry system which monitors and controls remote devices by means of an information control system. The system uses a plurality of sensor interface modules which constantly monitor devices for triggering events. The...  
WO/1999/008247A1
An improved assembly (10) for housing electronics for remote reading of meter reading data in a subsurface enclosure (11) includes a first inner enclosure (40) of metal for housing the receiver/transmitter circuitry (90), a second inner ...  
WO/1998/057311A2
This invention relates to a telemetry antenna system as shown in the figure for monitoring underground utility devices. The system includes a telemetry module (21) for gathering and for processing data and a housing (32) for containing t...  
WO/1998/055975A1
An automatic meter reading system utilizes repeater technology to access hard to read meters (12) within a fixed network (14) structure. The components of the radio system that are needed for two-way communications are employed without a...  
WO/1998/054583A1
A commodity consumption meter (2), of a type to which add-on circuitry (54) can be attached to provide at least one function ancillary to metering of the consumption of the commodity, comprises an electrical circuit (6) having metering m...  
WO/1998/052061A1
In a metering system comprising battery powered metering apparatus (1), the apparatus includes control means (19, 14) arranged to record battery usage data comprising at least data (25, 30) indicating the operating time of the apparatus ...  
WO/1998/048249A1
When checking supply meters, specially water meters in houses and in apartments, it is quite useful to carry out monitoring or checking or adjustment on the spot. As a general rule, this involves a considerable amount of equipment to mea...  
WO/1998/037528A1
In a method for transmitting a desired parameter to a remote location (18), the desired parameter is first communicated to a base transmitter (10). Then, the base transmitter (10) transmits a first radio signal (22) therefrom having an u...  
WO/1998/019447A1
A system for remotely monitoring and transmitting data as shown in figure 1. The system includes devices for sensing and collecting data (120) and for converting the data (154) to digital data and a processing unit (154) for processing t...  
WO/1998/010394A1
An automatic meter reading data communication system (20) having an integrated digital encoder (22) and two-way wireless transceiver that is attachable to a wide variety of utility meters for meter data collection and information managem...  
WO/1998/010299A1
An electronic electric meter for use in a networked automatic meter reading environment. The electric meter retrofits into existing meter sockets and is available for new meter installations for both single phase and three phase electric...  
WO/1998/006227A2
A messaging unit (16) equipped with a cellular transceiver (38) is attached to a truck trailer (12) or a monitoring station (13) located within a communications network (10). The messaging unit (16) generates a data message in response t...  
WO/1998/005013A1
An automatic utility meter as shown in the figure is provided for collecting, calculating, storing and displaying data correlative of consumption of utility commodities such as electric power, gas, water and the like. The utility meter i...  
WO/1998/000945A2
A method for accounting for individual ones of a plurality of items based upon random times and a random interval inventory system that operates in accordance with the method. The method includes a first step of transmitting information ...  
WO/1997/045704A1
A metering system comprises a plurality of meters (1, 2) for generating consumption data indicative of consumption by a consumer of respective services such as electricity, gas and water. At least one of the meters includes cut-off means...  
WO/1997/042614A1
A meter reading system (10) for reading meter status information from meters (150) includes a meter reading device (15) for transmitting messages at a first data rate, i.e., a higher data rate, and at a second data rate, i.e., a lower da...  
WO/1997/035282A1
Proposed is a data-transmission device, consisting of a pulse generator (1) and a monitoring unit (20), for use in a vehicle. The aim of the invention is to improve such a device so that the signal generated by the sensor (2) is not only...  
WO/1997/013186A1
A device (2) for installation in a building for the operation of appliances, utilities and services within the building, the device (2) being capable of connection to a plurality of communications media (represented by their means of rec...  
WO/1997/005572A1
The invention provides an apparatus for, and a method of, counting the revolutions of a rotating component (1). The apparatus comprises means (5) for generating a signal (10) having features which correspond to marks (3) on the component...  
WO/1996/029831A1
A call delivery system (10) for delivering a call to a mobile unit (12) on a vehicle (14) includes both a data communications network (16) and a mobile voice communications network (20). The mobile unit (12) generates call delivery infor...  
WO/1996/005561A1
A remotely controllable apparatus, system and method for attendantless monitoring, inventory, controlling and reporting on filling, refilling and dispensing of Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) at portable temporary or semi-permanent field-loc...  
WO/1995/032595A1
A method for communicating data between a central data terminal (120), a plurality of intermediate data terminals (114), a plurality of remote cell nodes (112), and a plurality of network service modules (110), using a plurality of frame...  
WO/1995/003665A1
A messaging unit (16) equipped with a cellular transceiver (38) is attached to a truck trailer (12) located within a communications network (10). The messaging unit (16) generates a data message in response to the occurrence of a reporti...  
WO/1995/003666A1
A method and apparatus for a nation-wide cellular telephone network that controls access to cellular systems is provided in which a cellular system (14) includes a mobile unit (16), transmission towers (18), MTSO (20), and a clearinghous...  
WO/1994/029825A1
The remote instrument reading and telemetry system includes at least one instrument link (2) interconnected to a data gathering device (4) and a remote station interrogation apparatus (6). The interrogation apparatus (6) and instrument l...  
WO/1994/019899A1
Instantaneous current and voltage values are digitized at each of a plurality of electrical utility customer sites (18) and integrated by a processor to calculate electrical power consumed at each customer site (18). A communication inte...  
WO/1993/019439A1
A remote meter reading system for example for domestic water meters, operates through an inductive coupling over two lines. A sinusoidal power signal is transmitted from a reader to the meter to power up encoding circuitry in the meter. ...  
WO/1993/017345A1
Methods and apparatus for electronically displaying metered electrical energy are disclosed. A first processor (14) receives voltage and current signals and determines electrical energy. The first processor (14) generates an energy signa...  
WO/1993/004451A1
A system for collecting, storing and transmitting data from a plurality of data generating units (15), comprising automatic data reading means (1) connected to each of said plurality of data generating units for receiving and storing dat...  
WO/1993/004445A1
A meter reading arrangement has an optical fibre transmission path (3) made up of a pair of optical fibers (31) connecting between a meter (1) to be read and a meter interface unit (51). Light is transmitted over one of the fibres to ind...  
WO/1993/002515A1
A wide area communications network communicating data from a plurality of network service modules (110) through a plurality of remote cell nodes (112) and intermediate data terminals (114) to a central data terminal (120). The wide area ...  
WO/1990/015971A1
The opto-electronic pick-up is designed to be placed in a domestic energy consumption counter which includes a rotating member (2) whose rotation speed is dependent on the energy consumption. Said pick-up (1) is held within a support (7)...  
WO/1990/004315A1
Assembly for the remote transfer and collection of data such as energy or fluid quantities measured by meters, comprising each a unit for the storage and issuing of such data towards collection means through at least one common transmiss...  
WO/1988/004433A1
A prepayment utility metering arrangement using encoded mag-stripe cards (104) to transfer purchase information from the utility billing office to the consumer. The cards are read at the consumer premises by a computerized metering and c...  
WO/1986/006529A1
The apparatus comprises a light source (14) for illuminating the faceplate (10) and pointer (12) of the meter, a lens (16) for transmitting an image of the illuminated faceplate (10) and pointer (12) to an array of photosensitive receive...  
WO/1986/005024A1
Automatic/remote instrument monitoring system and method. RF transponder units (20) are operatively connected to and monitor one or more parameters of a remotely located instrument (14). The transponders (20) include RF receivers that sa...  
WO/1981/003541A1
Electricity meter mainly intended for measuring, registration and reading of one or more consumers' electricity power consumption and/or energy consumption. To the electricity meter a display (12) is connected which is adapted to indicat...  
WO/1981/002960A1
The control unit is operable to substantially simultaneously operate a first receiver (200) to receive (at 16) a currently received command within a group of commands from a reading control center (12) and to operate a first transmitter ...  
WO/1981/000619A1
Device for a central and automatic reading, registration and control of energy consumption meters (12) located at consumers. The communication between producer and consumer is made through codified signals, which by way of modem (22) are...  
JP2023146901A
To make it possible to properly check whether or not a combination of an instrument and a transformer is correct.An instrument transformer combination check system includes: related information 31, 32 provided in a combined instrument K ...  
JP7160673B2
To provide a flowmeter which can easily grasp the situations of leakage from information displayed in the display unit.In the present invention, the amount of leakage is determined on the basis of the flow rate measured by flow rate meas...  
JP7160674B2
To provide a flowmeter having functions of measuring the flow rate of a fluid in a pipe regardless of whether a construction facility is working or not and estimating the most likely leakage amount from the measured values.The present in...  
JP7070133B6
To provide an inspection device capable of identifying which device has caused deviation in a counter value at an early stage.An inspection device 4 is used, for example, in a system including a meter 1 and a local monitoring panel 2. Th...  
JP2022075121A
To provide a prepaid system, a prepaid server and a gas meter in which a prepaid money amount is managed at a monitoring center side to improve convenience of a gas user.A prepaid system 1 comprises: a gas meter 10; a monitoring center s...  
JP7032766B2
To provide a stamp duty payment instrument which is excellent in usability, in which parts that may be tampered with are placed inside a seal, and in which parts that may not be tampered with are placed outside the seal and can be repair...  
JP6974164B2
A method of initializing a meter reading device that communicates a current meter value of a meter to a central metering facility includes capturing, by a camera, an optical image of the meter that displays meter information and determin...  
JP6803634B1
To provide a holder of a flow rate reading device capable of reliably mounting a flow rate reading device at an appropriate position on an existing water meter. This is a holder 2 of a flow rate reading device 1 mounted on a transparent ...  
JP6621239B2  

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