Location assessment method for operating a wireless data receiver for consumption data tracking

摘要

The method involves performing qualitative evaluation of an instantaneous operation location of a receiver (17) based on a channel-scanning process. The channel-scanning process for a statistical process is performed over a duration ranging from 1 second to 16838 seconds. A received signal strength indicator (RSSI)-measurement values are tracked with an allowed sampling-step size over an allowed time span. The values are evaluated by the statistical process in an output-related manner and represented as a histogram (20). RSSI-distribution with low field intensity is displayed by the histogram.