Low latency hybrid network for battery powered endpoint communications
AssigneeItron, Inc.
InventorsBarry CAHILL-O'BRIEN, Bruce EDWARDS
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Abstract
Techniques for a low latency hybrid network include storing, at a first node, metrology data received from a second node via a communication link of a first type; establishing, by the first node at a scheduled time, a connection to a server via a communication link of a second type, wherein the second type is different from the first type; and transmitting, by the first node, the metrology data to the server via the communication link of the second type.
Claims20
A method comprising:
- storing, at a first node, metrology data received from a second node via a communication link of a first type;
- establishing, by the first node at a scheduled time, a connection to a server via a communication link of a second type, wherein the second type is different from the first type;
- and
- transmitting, by the first node, the metrology data to the server via the communication link of the second type.
A network device comprising:
- one or more processors;
- and
- a memory storing instructions that when executed by the one or more processors causes the network device to perform operations comprising:
- storing metrology data received from a second network device via a first communication link, wherein the first communication link is a first type of communication link;
- connecting, according to a schedule, to a server via a second communication link, wherein the second communication link is a second type of communication link different from the first type of communication link;
- and
- transmitting the metrology data to the server via the second communication link.
A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing program instructions that, when executed by a network device, cause the network device to perform operations comprising:
- accumulating metrology data received from one or more second network devices via one or more wireless mesh communication links;
- establishing a cellular link to a centralized facility at a scheduled time;
- and
- forwarding the accumulated metrology data to the centralized facility via the cellular link.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.