US 11,991,264 B2
Measurement transmission method enabling network loading to be reduced
Henri Teboulle, Rueil Malmaison (FR)
Assigned to SAGEMCOM ENERGY & TELECOM SAS, Rueil Malmaison (FR)
Filed by SAGEMCOM ENERGY & TELECOM SAS, Rueil Malmaison (FR)
Filed on Jul. 16, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/378,168.
Claims priority of application No. 20 08048 (FR), filed on Jul. 29, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0038561 A1, Feb. 3, 2022
Int. Cl. H04L 29/06 (2006.01); G06F 7/499 (2006.01); H04L 67/12 (2022.01); H04L 69/22 (2022.01)
CPC H04L 69/22 (2013.01) [G06F 7/49942 (2013.01); H04L 67/12 (2013.01)] 11 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A transmission method for transmitting measurements taken by a fluid meter during successive measurement periods, each subdivided into successive time intervals, the measurements comprising first measurements, each representative of a quantity of fluid distributed during a respective one of the time intervals, the transmission method comprising, for each measurement period, the step of producing and then transmitting at least one measurement frame such that:
when the number of first measurements that are equal to zero is strictly less than a predetermined number during said measurement period, then the measurement frame is a normal measurement frame comprising normal first measurement data comprising all of the first measurements of said measurement period;
otherwise the measurement frame is a compact measurement frame that, when there is at least one first measurement that is not equal to zero, comprises:
preliminary data comprising identification data for identifying active time intervals of said measurement period, which active time intervals are associated with respective non-zero first measurements;
compact first measurement data comprising only said non-zero first measurements ordered in a predefined order.