METHOD OF SYNCHRONIZATION IN THE DATA COLLECTION SYSTEM Russian patent published in 2018 - IPC G01S1/00 

FIELD: means of communication.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to communication. Method of synchronization in a data collection system containing several data acquisition devices is proposed. Specific device for collecting data from the aforementioned several devices performs the following steps: receiving a data package from another device in the data collection system; extracting timing accuracy information and reference clock information from the received data package; obtaining the first reference clock signal in the function of the extracted information about the reference clock signal; If the dedicated information about the timing accuracy indicates a higher synchronization accuracy than the current synchronization accuracy information associated with the particular data collection device under consideration: accepting the resulting first reference clock signal as the selected reference clock signal, and updating the current timing accuracy information to indicate a lower timing accuracy than the dedicated timing accuracy information.

EFFECT: synchronization method in a data collection system containing several data acquisition devices is proposed.

13 cl, 9 dwg