Patent ID: 11937022
Assignee: EI ELECTRONICS LLC
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G  Y | IPC G  H

Claim 27:
28. An intelligent electronic device (IED), comprising:
a metering module configured for measuring or calculating parameters of waveforms of voltages and currents of an electrical power distribution system;
a processing module configured for processing data obtained using the metering module and administering operational features of the IED; and
a user authentication module configured for authenticating an authorized user of the IED and preventing an access by non-authorized personnel to a portion of the operational features of the IED, the user authentication module coupled to at least one input device configured to acquire a piece of user credentials,
wherein, upon receipt of the piece of user credentials, the user authentication module generates a dynamic password to be entered by the user to complete the authentication of the authorized user.