Patent ID: 7941485

Claim:
A measurement system comprising: a plurality of measurement devices connected over a network, each of the measurement devices belonging to any one of a plurality of groups, and transmitting measured data to a multicast address which corresponds to a group to which the respective measurement device belongs; a plurality of data processing devices that receive the measured data of which the destination is the multicast address which corresponds to the group assigned to each data processing device, and that perform data processing based on the measured data; and a management device which decides the groups in which the data processing devices are to join, based on the join status of the data processing devices to the groups and load amounts of processing on the groups in which they are joined, and assigns at least one of the data processing devices to either of groups based on respective operating statuses of the data processing devices; wherein the plurality of measurement devices are classified into groups, based on the disposition positions of the respective measurement devices.