Outage notification system

摘要

The present invention relates to methodology for enabling outage notifications in an advanced metering system mesh network, comprising: establishing a network including a central facility and a plurality of end devices, at least some of which end devices comprise metrology devices; configuring the network for bi-directional communications between the central facility and each of the plurality of end devices; causing an end device experiencing power outage conditions to transmit a power outage message to neighbor end devices; and configuring the plurality of end devices so that neighbor end devices not experiencing a power outage respond to a power outage message for forwarding such power outage message to the central facility over the network, whereby power outage data is reported to the central facility via the network using end devices not experiencing power outage conditions, without requiring a direct communications link between the central facility and an end device experiencing power outage conditions. Likewise, the invention relates to an advanced metering system mesh network with power outage notification functionality.