Patent ID: 11953529
Assignee: SENSUS SPECTRUM, LLC
Field: Measurement (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G  H  Y | IPC G  H

Claim 0:
1. A position sensing module associated with a device, the position sensing module configured to:
receive electrical characteristics associated with one or more phases of the device over a predetermined period of time, the one or more phases each having one or more switches, respectively, the one or more switches being configured to connect service to or disconnect service from a customer, the one or more switches defining, for each phase, a line-side of the device and a load-side of the device, wherein receiving electrical characteristics comprises receiving root mean square (RMS) currents measured over the predetermined period of time for each phase of the device;
calculate a match indicator for each phase of the device, the match indicator indicating whether an electrical characteristic on the load-side of the device matches a same electrical characteristic on the line-side of the device for each phase of the device; and
determine a position of the one or more switches based on the received RMS currents for each phase of the device and the calculated match indicator for each phase of the device;
the match indicator comprising a true value or a false value for each phase of the device, a true value indicating that a measured load-side voltage of the device matches a measured line-side voltage of the device for each phase of the device and a false value indicating that the measured load-side voltage of the device does not match the measured line-side voltage of the device for each phase of the device;
sum a difference between the line-side voltage and the load-side voltage for each phase;
provide the true value if the sum is less than a predetermined threshold match value; and
provide the false value if the sum exceeds the predetermined threshold match value.