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

Claim 1:
2. A meter for measuring an amount of service provided to a customer, the meter comprising a position sensing module configured to:
receive electrical characteristics associated with one or more phases of the meter 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 the customer, the one or more switches defining, for each phase, a line-side of the meter and a load-side of the meter, wherein the electrical characteristics comprises root mean square (RMS) currents measured over the predetermined period of time for each phase of the meter;
calculate a match indicator for each phase of the meter, the match indicator indicating whether an electrical characteristic on the load-side of the meter matches a same electrical characteristic on the line-side of the meter for each phase of the meter; and
determine a position of the one or more switches based on the received RMS currents for each phase of the meter and the calculated match indicator for each phase of the meter;
the match indicator comprising a true value or a false value for each phase of the meter, a true value indicating that a measured load-side voltage of the meter matches a measured line-side voltage of the meter for each phase of the meter and a false value indicating that the measured load-side voltage of the meter does not match the measured line-side voltage of the meter for each phase of the meter;
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.