Node migration
AssigneeMueller International, LLC
InventorsDavid Edwin Splitz, Dale McLeod Magley, Brent Dukes
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Abstract
A method includes periodically sending an Advanced Meter Reading (AMR) beacon from a node at a first regular time interval, the AMR beacon containing a register identification and a reading detected by the node, and periodically listening, at the node, for a communication such that instances of listening occur at a second regular time interval smaller than the first time interval. In one aspect of the disclosure, the communication is a mobile command from a mobile transceiver. In another aspect of the disclosure, the communication is a Network System Status Request or a parent assignment command from a stationary transceiver.
Claims19
A method, comprising:
- periodically sending an Advanced Meter Reading (AMR) beacon from a node at a first regular time interval, the AMR beacon containing a register identification (ID) and a reading detected by the node;
- periodically listening, at the node, for a communication such that instances of listening occur at a second regular time interval smaller than the first regular time interval;
- and
- receiving the communication at the node;
- wherein the communication is a repeating pattern of hail messages, and wherein each hail message has a hail duration smaller than the second regular time interval.
A node, comprising:
- a processor;
- and
- logic processed by the processor to
- periodically send an Advanced Meter Reading (AMR) beacon from the node at a first regular time interval, the AMR beacon containing information identifying the node and containing a reading detected by the node,
- periodically listen, at the node, for a communication such that instances of listening occur at a second regular time interval smaller than the first regular time interval, and
- receive the communication at the node,
- wherein the communication is a repeating pattern of hail messages, and wherein each hail message has a hail duration smaller than the second regular time interval.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.