Wireless communication
AssigneeVEGA Grieshaber KG
InventorsThomas Deck, Jürgen Skowaisa, Holger Sack, Robert Laun
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Abstract
Described is a sensor unit having a measured signal receiver, which registers a measured signal, an A/D converter for digitizing the measured signal, a transceiver device for wireless data communication to an environmental device, and a processor. The processor is a control processor for activating the measured signal receiver, the A/D converter, and the transceiver device. The digitized measured signal is transmitted directly via the transceiver device to the environmental device, without the complex and performance-intensive and therefore costly analysis occurring in the sensor unit.
Claims27
A fill level sensor unit, comprising:
- a measured signal receiver registering a measured signal;
- an A/D converter digitizing the measured signal;
- a transceiver device wirelessly transmitting data to an environmental device;
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- a processor configured to only assume activating the measured signal receiver, the A/D converter, and the transceiver device in such a way that, that the measured signal is digitized and subsequently transmitted without signal processing after the A/D conversion, via the transceiver device, to the environmental device, the environmental device being coupled to an analysis unit which converts the measured signal into a measured value;
- wherein the sensor is a fill level sensor;
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- wherein the measured signal receiver transmits and receives one of a radar signal, an ultrasound signal and a guided microwave signal.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.