US 12,442,662 B2
Method for determining events in a network
Kristoffer Andersen, Skanderborg (DK)
Assigned to KAMSTRUP A/S, Skanderborg (DK)
Appl. No. 18/546,810
Filed by Kamstrup A/S, Skanderborg (DK)
PCT Filed Mar. 2, 2022, PCT No. PCT/EP2022/055275
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Aug. 17, 2023,
PCT Pub. No. WO2022/200008, PCT Pub. Date Sep. 29, 2022.
Claims priority of application No. 21165257 (EP), filed on Mar. 26, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2024/0302186 A1, Sep. 12, 2024
Int. Cl. G01D 4/00 (2006.01)
CPC G01D 4/004 (2013.01) [G01D 2204/47 (2021.05)] 19 Claims
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1. A method for determining events in a network of a plurality of consumption meters, the method comprising steps of:
determining a first event by grouping data characterizing the first event according to consumption meters of the plurality of consumption meters which have detected the characterizing data and, if data from each consumption meter, that detected the data characterizing the first event, indicates that the first event has occurred, it is determined that the first event has occurred, the grouping being carried out according to a criteria comprising:
temporal coincidence of the first event,
spatial concordance of the first event and
consistency of a type of the first event,
wherein the spatial concordance is determined by determining and ranking an Euclidean distance of each of the plurality of consumption meters to every other consumption meter of the plurality of consumption meters, and by assigning n closest consumption meters that have acquired the characterizing data to a group of consumption meters.