Prioritized reporting of metering data
AssigneeItron, Inc.
InventorsChristopher Lloyd Osterloh, James Patrick Ogle, Bret Gregory Holmdahl
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Abstract
A utility company may schedule when and how endpoints report resource consumption data based on relative priorities of endpoints or the customers associated therewith. By associating endpoints with one of multiple different quality of service (QoS) levels, and sending each endpoint a reporting schedule based on its respective QoS level, the utility company may configure prioritized reporting of resource consumption data by endpoints of an advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) with automatic meter reading (AMR).
Claims20
A system for managing reporting of resource consumption data, the system comprising:
- one or more processors;
- and
- memory communicatively coupled to the one or more processors and storing instructions that, when executed, configure the one or more processors to perform acts comprising:
- determining a plurality of endpoints from which to obtain resource consumption data;
- determining a relative priority of each endpoint of the plurality of endpoints;
- establishing multiple quality of service levels;
- assigning each endpoint of the plurality of endpoints to one of the multiple quality of service levels based at least in part on the relative priority of the respective endpoint;
- and
- communicating to each endpoint when, based on the respective quality of service level, the respective endpoint is to report its resource consumption data.
A method comprising:
- under control of a data collector of a utility communication network configured with computer-executable instructions:
- receiving information about a plurality of endpoints for which resource consumption data is to be collected;
- and
- communicating to each endpoint of the plurality of endpoints a reporting schedule of when, based on the received information, the respective endpoint is to report its resource consumption data to the data collector,
- wherein the reporting schedule defines a frequency and a starting time at which each endpoint is to report resource consumption data to the data collector.
(canceled)
A network computing device of a utility communication network comprising:
- a processing unit comprising logic configured to implement acts comprising:
- receiving a communication indicating when the network computing device is to report its resource consumption data;
- collecting resource consumption data;
- and
- reporting the collected resource consumption data based at least in part on the received communication,
- wherein the network computing device comprises a metering point of a utility mesh network, and the reporting comprises passing the resource consumption data to an upstream metering point in the utility mesh network.
(canceled)
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.