Patent ID: 7271735
Filing Date: 2007-09-18
Classification: G01D,G01R,Y02A,Y02B,Y04S

Abstract:
1. System for the remote acquisition of data and for the remote control of the targets of users spread over a vast territory, comprising: electricity meters including means to measure the electric energy consumptions and associated with each user, concentrators, each concentrator being connected to a set of meters by a first means for the bi-directional transmission of data, said concentrators being connected to a central control and supervision unit through a second means for the bi-directional transmission of data, wherein: intelligence of the system is distributed between the central unit, the concentrators and the electricity meters; each meter including means to transduce the measured energy consumption values into measuring data a first processor to process said measuring data, a first memory, an output of said first processor being connected to said first memory to said first bi-directional transmission means so as to respectively at least temporarily store and/or transmit the processed measuring data processed by the first processor; each concentrator includes a second microprocessor for further processing said data processed by the meters, a second memory to store the processed data issued by said meters and/or by said second microprocessor, an output of said second processor being connected to said second memory and/or to said second bi-directional transmission means, so as to respectively at least temporarily store and/or transmit said further processed data; and at least one of the concentrators is configured to identify a repeater path by detecting at least one meter functioning as an intermediate bridge to another meter to permit communication between the other meter and the one concentrator via the repeater path.