Patent ID: 11924054
Assignee: SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC (AUSTRALIA) PTY LTD.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC H

Claim 16:
17. A method for managing remote terminal communications in remote Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) and/or telemetry networks, the method comprising:
transmitting one or more solicitation messages to a remote terminal using a centrally coordinated wireless access protocol;
processing header data of multiple messages received from the remote terminals using a solicitation detection device to learn which of the header data in the received messages correlates with a response being generated by the remote terminals in response to the solicitation messages, and which of the header data correlates with other types of messages received from the remote terminals;
learning the time delay of the remote terminals to generate the response to the solicitation messages;
inspecting packets transmitted by the centrally coordinated wireless access protocol to predict which of the remote terminals are currently ready with a response to transmit based on or using information associated with the learned time delay; and
using information associated with the predictions to efficiently allocate time on the shared wireless channels to the remote terminals which are currently ready with the response, thereby increasing the throughput limits of the channels and reducing latency.