US 12,277,613 B2
Method for reconnecting a smart electricity meter and smart electricity meter implementing said method
Henri Teboulle, Rueil Malmaison (FR); Ziv Roter, Rueil Malmaison (FR); Jean-Philippe Berger, Rueil Malmaison (FR); and Jérémie Sergi, Rueil Malmaison (FR)
Assigned to SAGEMCOM ENERGY & TELECOM SAS, Bois-Colombes (FR)
Filed by SAGEMCOM ENERGY & TELECOM SAS, Rueil Malmaison (FR)
Filed on Nov. 17, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/989,114.
Claims priority of application No. 2112258 (FR), filed on Nov. 19, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0162298 A1, May 25, 2023
Int. Cl. G06Q 50/06 (2024.01); H04W 4/70 (2018.01)
CPC G06Q 50/06 (2013.01) [H04W 4/70 (2018.02)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for reconnecting a smart electricity meter connected to a data concentrator, referred to as the current data concentrator, in a powerline or radio-frequency communication network for automated metering management in the context of an electrical distribution service, the method being characterised in that it comprises the following steps performed by the smart electricity meter:
disconnecting from the current data concentrator in the case where the current data concentrator is posing a problem;
connecting to a neighbouring data concentrator different from the current data concentrator;
listening to the frames containing an identifier of the current data concentrator;
disconnecting from the neighbouring data concentrator and reconnecting to a data concentrator using the same identifier as the current data concentrator when at least N frames containing the identifier of the current data concentrator are received, with N an integer greater than or equal to 1.