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7626497 Power line communication vegetation management system and method  
A system for detecting the contact of vegetation or other objects with a power line conductor and that may provide an automated notification thereof is provided. In one embodiment, the system may...
7579944 Information provision system and terminal for same and program for same  
An information provision system of the present disclosure stores a current vehicle condition and a normal unattended condition of the vehicle as relevant information in a driver's unit, when a...
7529300 Shaped-offset quadrature amplitude modulation methods and apparatus  
Shaped Offset Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (QAM) can be implemented within a communication system. A train or sequence of orthogonal sinc pulses can be generated for each of the in-phase and...
7518487 Power line communication system  
Communication apparatus, comprising: a network of power lines; and first, second and third transceivers, coupled to the network, the first transceiver being adapted to transmit a first signal over...
7498934 Power supply and useful data exchange between a fire alarm control unit and a current sink  
A method, system and circuit arrangement exchange data and supply power to at least one current sink connected via at least one data line pair to a fire alarm control unit. A pulsed voltage is used...
7382232 Power line communications device and method of use  
A device and method for providing power line communications via an underground residential distribution power system is provided. One embodiment of the present invention includes a power line...
7366773 Alternative communications paths for data sent over power line carrier  
Extensions to the concept of using a power line carrier to convey a data record from the secondary side of a first transformer to a receiver in a power distribution substation include receiving the...
7327222 Transmission system for transmitting data via current conducting branches  
A system and method for transmitting and receiving data between a power supply and a remotely located load, by use of standard data communication cable has functional data transmitted via the power...
7319384 Communication apparatus and communication method  
A communication apparatus includes a transmission signal generation section 1 , a transmission signal control section 2 , a transmission section 3 , a leakage electric power detection section 4...
7304567 Method and apparatus for communicating control and other information over a power bus  
An information signal to be communicated to a roof-mounted light bar or other electrical or electronic device travels over the vehicle's or other environment's power bus or other power conductor....
7248178 RF communication with downhole equipment  
Data or control signals are communicated over a three phase power cable supplying power from a surface location to a motor/pump assembly located within a wellbore utilizing modulated radio...
7199706 PLC intercom/monitor  
A digital intercom device consistent with certain embodiments uses power line communication (PLC). A power line interface connects to a power line serving as a communication medium. An audio codec...
7180412 Power line communication system having time server  
A system for bi-directional power distribution line communication. The system is configured for data communication with an endpoint transceiver located at a customer premise. The system comprises a...
7170405 Method and apparatus for interfacing a power line carrier and an appliance  
A method and apparatus for communicating between an appliance and a power line carrier communication system includes at least one power line carrier connection, at least one appliance connection,...
7170394 Remote current sensing and communication over single pair of power feed wires  
Disclosed is a novel technique for transferring power and signals between two electrical devices over a single wire pair. In particular, a remote sensor is connected to a host device. Power to the...
7167089 Burglar alarm using power cord to transmit signals and method for controlling the same  
A burglar alarm includes a main unit provided with a power supply voltage regulator circuit, a CPU circuit, an FET driving circuit, and an RLC oscillation circuit to convert digital code signals...
7154381 System and method for operating a sensed power device over data wiring  
According to the present invention, a power source delivers power to a networked device over network cabling (e.g., Ethernet cabling) in one of two modes: a low power mode and a high power mode....
7129820 Door station apparatus with electric lock  
The respective sections between a power source unit 4 and a room master station 1 , between the room master station 1 and an entrance door station 2 , and between the entrance door station 2...
7123140 Network for remote administration of street lighting inter alia and methods to carry out said administration  
A wireless network for remotely controlling at least one lamp includes a first radio transceiver associated with the at least one lamp and a second radio transceiver. The first radio transceiver...
7113075 Power supply methods and apparatus  
A detection circuit includes a first power line, a first signal conditioning module operationally coupled to the first power line, a neutral line (N) operationally coupled to the first signal...
7053765 Active security system  
A system and method is disclosed for actively maintaining security of a premises. The method can include the operation of establishing a data link between a local security controller within the...
7030761 Multi-resolution object location system and method  
A multi-resolution object location system and method for locating objects is provided. The multi-resolution system and method uses a long-range object locator together with a more precise RFID...
7026947 Building emergency path finding systems and method  
Signals from a plurality of detectors are evaluated to establish an ingress or an egress path or paths to and from a region. Where the detectors indicate flame or smoke concentrations, the ingress...
7012505 Method and system for communication on a power distribution line  
A method and system of communicating on an active power distribution line using numerous asynchronous data transmitters. Data is modulated onto 5 KHz carrier signals of narrow bandwidth whose...
6906638 Sensor unit  
A sensor unit ( 9 ) for measuring a process magnitude and for producing a digital signal representative of the process magnitude exhibits an interface ( 3 ) for transmitting the digital signal in a...
6901336 Method and apparatus for supplying power, and channeling analog measurement and communication signals over single pair of wires  
A novel technique for transferring power, measurement signals, and communication signals between two electrical devices over a single wire pair is presented. A host device supplies power to a...
6831551 Method and system for modulating a carrier frequency to support nondestructive bitwise arbitration of a communication medium  
A system for modulating a carrier frequency to support nondestructive bitwise arbitration of a communication medium. The system comprises a first sensor module coupled to a power supply line via a...
6822555 Fire system implemented with power line communications  
An electric power line communication system operates with an electric power distribution system to provide through premises power distribution lines highly reliable communication links among...
6608555 Vehicle security system  
A vehicle security system includes a detector circuit cluster, an alarm circuit cluster and a host device, all connected to a common power supply line. The detector circuit cluster includes a...
6590384 Method of communicating with a built-in sensor, in particular a rotational speed sensor  
The method allows communication with a built-in sensor, in particular a rotational speed sensor, which supplies successive signal pulses as output signal. The sensor is preferably built into a...
6587037 Method for multi-phase data communications and control over an ESP power cable  
A three phase power cable is employed to transmit data encoded in a phase-to-phase manner within a high frequency carrier signal transmitted simultaneously with power transmitted from surface...
6448899 Power indicating ethernet outlet and method therefor  
A telecommunications outlet with a visual indicator that informs a user that the outlet is capable of supplying power to a network device in a network system compliant with IEEE 802.3. The outlet...
6441723 Highly reliable power line communications system  
An electric power line communication system operates with an electric power distribution system to provide through premises power distribution lines highly reliable communication links among...
6369699 Single-cable transmission device for signals and power supply of a surveillance system  
The present invention provides a single-cable transmission device for signals and a power supply of a surveillance system, which only requires a single cable to transmit various signals and a power...
6326884 Method of transmitting data between a small electric appliance and a supplementary electric appliance connectible therewith, as well as appliances suitably configured for this purpose  
The apparatus includes a method of transmitting data between a small electric appliance such as an electric hair cutting apparatus, an electric toothbrush or a household appliance, and a...
6320494 Full duplex communication system with power transfer on one pair of conductors  
A local station and a remote station are connected by a single pair of conductors. The local station communicates with the remote station by modulating a power supply within the local station which...
6320502 Method and apparatus for transmitting data between a position measuring system and an evaluation unit  
A method for transmitting data between a position measuring system and an evaluating unit that includes the steps of generating a system-specific parameter, transmitting the system specific...
6278357 Apparatus and method for implementing digital communications on a power line  
An apparatus to establish bi-directional digital communication over a power line network includes a signal launching circuit to impose a digital communication signal onto a power signal carried by...
6266545 Transferring data in a fixed-site radio transceiver station by modulating power supply current  
In a fixed-site radio transceiver station, information about a tower-mounted radio frequency amplifier apparatus can be automatically transferred from the tower-mounted radio frequency amplifier...
6249213 Method for transmitting information over an alternating current power line through a plurality of frequency orthogonal subchannels  
One embodiment of the present invention is a method for transmitting information over an AC power line. A frequency channel for transmitting the information is selected and divided into a plurality...
6101214 Power line communications spread spectrum symbol timing and random phasing  
A system for spread spectrum power line communications employs a harmonic modulation (HM) transmitter coupled to the power line for transmitting message bits to an HM receiver. The spread spectrum...
6097280 Fault locator that uses positive-phase-sequence electricity  
A fault locator of a parallel transmission line includes a data receiving unit that receives the transmission and the received signal of each current differential relay provided with the...
6005477 Method and apparatus for information transmission via power supply lines  
A method and a system for rapid and interference-free data communication via power supply networks at any voltage levels. The combined effects of interference from signal distortion,...
5903594 Power line communications spread spectrum protocol  
A spread spectrum protocol in a power line communication (PLC) system uses Harmonic Modulation (HM) as true spread spectrum modulation made up of a plurality of modulated tones spaced in frequency...
5652755 Printer interface system  
Monitor (11) includes a microcontroller (51) programmed in a first mode of operation to drive various loads (59), (69) which operate to perform tests on patient samples. The results of the tests...
5635895 Remote power cost display system  
A remote electrical power meter display system for indicating to a consumer the actual costs associated with electrical power use includes two units: a wattmeter/transmitter for detecting...
5539375 Apparatus for transmitting instrumentation signals over power conductors  
A downhole instrumentation system comprises one or more transducers coupled in a DC current circuit between the star point of an electrical submersible pump and the chassis. A sensing circuit...
5452344 Communication over power lines  
The present invention describes an FSK carrier communication systems for transmitting and receiving data on a electric utility line even in the presence of extreme noise. The present invention uses...
5198810 One-way data telemetering system utilizing the power supply mains  
A data telemetering system includes a plurality of remote transmitter units connected via an alternating current power supply mains to a central receiver. Each cycle of the line voltage is divided...
5084868 Common bus multinode sensor system  
The present invention is a multimode sensor system that transmits power down a common bus coaxial cable typically using an alternating current power source. Each remote unit connected to the...
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