Programming electric meter global positioning system coordinates using smart device
AssigneeLandis+Gyr Innovations, Inc.
InventorDavid Schamber
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Abstract
A method for programming global positioning system (GPS) coordinates for a smart meter includes receiving, by a server remote from the smart meter, an image file of a photograph of the smart meter; recognizing identification information of the smart meter from the image file; extracting GPS coordinates from metadata of the received image file; transmitting the GPS coordinates and instructions to store the GPS coordinates to the smart meter identified by the identification information; and storing, by a processor of the smart meter, the GPS coordinates in a memory of the smart meter.
Claims20
A method for programming global positioning system (GPS) coordinates for a smart meter, the method comprising:
- receiving, by a server remote from the smart meter, an image file of a photograph of the smart meter;
- recognizing identification information of the smart meter from the image file;
- extracting GPS coordinates from metadata of the received image file;
- transmitting the GPS coordinates and instructions to store the GPS coordinates to the smart meter identified by the identification information;
- and
- storing, by a processor of the smart meter, the GPS coordinates in a memory of the smart meter.
A system, comprising:
- a smart device operable to execute an application;
- a smart meter including a processor and a memory;
- and
- a remote server operable to communicate with the smart device and the smart meter, the remote server configured to:
- receive, from an application executing on the smart device, an image file of a photograph of the smart meter;
- recognize identification information of the smart meter from the image file;
- extract GPS coordinates from metadata of the image file;
- and
- transmit the GPS coordinates and instructions to store the GPS coordinates to the smart meter identified by the identification information,
- wherein the processor of the smart meter is configured to store the GPS coordinates in the memory of the smart meter.
A non-transitory computer readable medium having stored therein instructions for making a processor of a remote computer system execute a method for programming GPS coordinates for a smart meter, the processor executable instructions comprising instructions for performing operations including:
- receiving an image file of a photograph of the smart meter;
- recognizing identification information of the smart meter from the image file;
- extracting GPS coordinates from metadata of the image file;
- and
- transmitting the GPS coordinates and instructions to store the GPS coordinates to the smart meter identified by the identification information.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.