Patent ID: 11899068
Assignee: ITRON, INC.
Field: Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H  Y | IPC G  H

Claim 0:
1. A battery powered device comprising:
a battery;
one or more processors electrically coupled to the battery; and
memory storing instructions executable by the one or more processors to perform operations comprising:
determining a first battery level of the battery at a first time;
determining that the battery powered device has been tampered with;
selecting one or more data fields, from a plurality of data fields, to include within a message based at least in part on the first battery level, the selecting of the one or more data fields includes selecting a tamper data field in response to determining that the battery powered device has been tampered with;
generating the message that includes the one or more data fields, wherein the one or more data fields include a protocol identifier that provides an indication of the one or more data fields included within the message and a device identifier that identifies the battery powered device; and
transmitting the message.