System for remote data collection

A remote data collection system for collecting usage data from an endpoint, comprising:

• a monitoring module coupled to the endpoint, the monitoring module having a wireless transmitter to transmit the usage data, the wireless transmitter including:
• a reference oscillator;
• a low pass filter coupled to the reference oscillator;
• a modulation filter to provide an over-sampled modulated signal;
• a synthesizer coupled to the low pass filter and the modulation filter;
• a sine wave generator coupled to the synthesizer;
• and
• an antenna coupled to the sine wave generator;
• and
• a receiver to receive usage data from the wireless transmitter of the monitoring module, the receiver capable of receiving in parallel data transmitted at arbitrary frequencies within a radio channel, including:
• a radio frequency (RF) front end to convert an RF signal to a digitized signal;
• a Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) generator coupled to the RF front-end to separate the digitized signal into a plurality of sub-channels;
• a bank of phase locked loops (PLLs) coupled to the FFT generator, each PLL operating on a sub-channel with a sub-channel center;
• a flag detector coupled to the bank of PLLs to detect variations from the sub-channel center and to recover the usage data transmitted by the end-point;
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• a data communication network coupled to the receiver to communicate the usage data from the endpoint to a database.