Patent ID: 8730057

Claim:
A system for providing a communications bridge, the system comprising: an automatic meter reading (AMR) receiver configured to: receive via a radio signal AMR data from an AMR meter; provide the AMR data to a microcontroller; the microcontroller configured to: receive the AMR data from the AMR receiver; translate the AMR data into corresponding ZigBee protocol data at least in part by, parsing a plurality of bytes of the AMR data, for at least one of the plurality of bytes of the AMR data, determining an AMR data field corresponding to the byte of the AMR data, for at least one of a plurality of determined AMR data fields, correlating the determined AMR data field and any corresponding byte of the AMR data to a ZigBee attribute, and storing the correlated AMR data as ZigBee protocol data; and provide the ZigBee protocol data to a ZigBee radio; and the ZigBee radio configured to: receive the ZigBee protocol data from the microcontroller; and provide the ZigBee protocol data to a home area network (HAN).