Abstract: An automatic monitoring system of storage batteries housed in battery rooms comprises an acquisition satellite associated with a sensor to measure various physical parameters representative of the operating state of a pilot battery cell, notably the density, temperature and electrolyte level, a data concentrator located outside the corresponding battery room and arranged to communicate by radioelectric waves with the acquisition satellite, and a centralized processing unit connected to the concentrator by a two-way cabled communication network.

Abstract: In an audiovisual signals diffusion apparatus, a digital coding process for protecting coded digital sound signals alternately recorded with video signals against alterations or deteriorations encountered during the transcription process onto a recording carrier or support, comprising the steps of selectively protecting signals representing low analog levels against large erroneous variations, transmitting several times the thus protected signals and garbling the different bits of successively transmitted digital signals, said process being compatible with the multiplexed recording of several sound channels.