Fault monitoring in a utility supply network
AssigneeSpatialbuzz Limited
InventorsAndrew Blake, Michael Shannon, Christopher John Haslett
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Abstract
A first aspect of the invention provides a method of fault monitoring in a utility supply network, the method comprising: receiving user queries, each user query about a performance of the network at a respective location; defining a region based on the locations specified in the received user queries; determining an estimate of a user population in the region; and according the region, based on the estimate, a priority for one or more of fault investigation and remediation.
Claims17
A method of fault monitoring in a utility network, the method comprising:
- receiving user queries via a network querying service, the network querying service being functionally equivalent to the utility network, each user query about a performance of the utility network experienced by the user at a respective location;
- defining a region based on the locations specified in the received user queries;
- determining an estimate of a user population in the region;
- and
- determining for the region, based on the estimate, a priority for one or more of fault investigation and remediation.
A method of fault monitoring in a communications system of a utility network, the method comprising:
- receiving user queries from users of a communications system associated with the utility network, each user query about a current performance of the communications system associated with the utility network at a respective location;
- defining a region based on the locations specified in the received user queries;
- determining an estimate of the user population in the region;
- and
- determining for the region, based on the estimate, a priority for one or more of fault investigation and remediation.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.