Water Meters Having Integrated Pressure Regulating Systems and Related Methods
AssigneeSensus Spectrtum, LLC
InventorChristian Heizenroeder
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Abstract
Meters including a pressure regulating systems are provided. The pressure regulating system includes a pressure sensor configured to sense pressure of water flowing through the meter; an actuator coupled to the pressure sensor; an electronics module configured to receive pressure information related sensed pressure from the actuator and process the received pressure information; and a radio module coupled to the meter and configured to receive the processed sensor information from the electronics module, communicate the processed sensor information to a remote location and receive pressure adjustment information from the remote location. The received pressure adjustment information is used to adjust water pressure in the meter from the remote location.
Claims17
A meter including a pressure regulating system, the pressure regulating system comprising:
- a pressure sensor configured to sense pressure of water flowing through the meter;
- an actuator coupled to the pressure sensor;
- an electronics module configured to receive pressure information related sensed pressure from the actuator and process the received pressure information;
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- a radio module coupled to the meter and configured to receive the processed sensor information from the electronics module, communicate the processed sensor information to a remote location and receive pressure adjustment information from the remote location, the received pressure adjustment information being used to adjust water pressure in the meter from the remote location.
A water meter comprising:
- a housing;
- and
- an integrated pressure control valve inside the housing, the integrated pressure control valve configured to receive instructions from a remote location to increase and/or decrease water pressure of water flowing through the water meter.
A method of remotely adjusting pressure in a water meter, the method comprising:
- sensing pressure of water flowing through the water meter;
- receiving the sensed pressure of the water flowing through the water meter at an electronics module in the water meter;
- processing the received sensed pressure at the electronics module to provided processed pressure information;
- providing the processed pressure information to a remote location via a radio module;
- receiving pressure adjustment information from the remote location via the radio module;
- and
- adjusting the pressure of the water flowing through the water meter based on the received pressure adjustment information from the remote location.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.