US 12,136,132 B2
Systems and methods for detecting and reporting anomalies in utility meters
Christine E. Boyle, Stateline, NV (US); Renee Jutras, San Francisco, CA (US); M. Sohaib Alam, Freehold, NJ (US); and David R. Wegman, San Francisco, CA (US)
Assigned to Xylem Vue Inc., Rye Brook, NY (US)
Filed by Xylem Vue Inc., Rye Brook, NY (US)
Filed on Mar. 30, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/128,298.
Application 18/128,298 is a continuation of application No. 16/488,946, granted, now 11,645,727, previously published as PCT/US2018/024240, filed on Mar. 26, 2018.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/478,831, filed on Mar. 30, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2023/0237596 A1, Jul. 27, 2023
Int. Cl. G06Q 50/06 (2024.01); G06F 16/29 (2019.01); G06Q 20/14 (2012.01)
CPC G06Q 50/06 (2013.01) [G06F 16/29 (2019.01); G06Q 20/14 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of utility intervention, said method comprising:
obtaining utility data from a utility data repository;
detecting, using at least one type of anomaly-detecting module installed on a server, one or more utility anomalies of at least one type and a location address of one or more of said utility anomalies;
calculating, using said server, an amount of financial savings for at least one of said utility anomalies if said utility anomaly was remedied or addressed so that said utility anomaly was no longer deemed an anomaly by said server;
computing, using said server, a certainty score for at least one of said utility anomalies and wherein said certainty score is a measure of certainty that said utility anomaly, obtained from said detecting, is indeed an anomaly, and not a false positive result;
conveying said certainty score for at least one of said utility anomalies, infomlation about said type of one or more of said utility anomalies, and said location address of one or more of said utility anomalies from said server to a client device, which is communicatively coupled to said server; and
displaying, on a display screen of said client device, a map depicting a geographical area that identifies, using a flag presented as a selectable icon, at least one of said location address on said map of one or more of said utility anomalies and said type of at least one of said utility anomalies;
presenting information, upon user's selection of said selectable icon for said flag, regarding remediation of said utility anomaly that includes said location address on said map of one or more of said utility anomalies, said type of at least one of said utility anomalies, said certainty score for each of said utility anomalies, and amount of said financial savings associated with each of said utility anomalies.