Single source of information apparatuses, methods, and systems
AssigneeCalifornia Eastern Laboratories, Inc.
InventorsMatthew Todd Smith, James Paul Hartman, Damon Mark Stewart
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Abstract
A control network communication apparatus, method, and system. The method of communicating control network information to a user interface includes a wireless gateway receiving control system information from a control node wirelessly over a local area mesh network, the wireless gateway receiving a request for control system information when it polls a remote server over a wide area network, the request transmitted to the remote server from a user interface, and the wireless gateway providing the requested control system information to the remote server for delivery to the user interface.
Claims20
A control network, comprising:
- a gateway communicating on a local area network and a wide area network;
- a sensing control node and an actuating control node communicating control information to the gateway on the local area network;
- a cloud server communicating with the gateway by way of the wide area network;
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- a user interface communicating a request for sensed information from the sensing control node and a request for state information from the actuating control node through the gateway by way of the wide area network, the user interface communicating the request for sensed information from the sensing control node and the request for state information from the actuating control node through the gateway by sending a plurality of messages to the cloud server that are retrieved from the cloud server by the gateway through gateway polling of the cloud server, the user interface only receiving sensed information and state information from the cloud server that was left for the user interface on the cloud server by the gateway in response to a user interface request for information.
A method of communicating control network information to a user interface, comprising:
- a wireless gateway receiving control system information from at least one of an actuating control node and a sensing control node wirelessly over a local area mesh network;
- the wireless gateway receiving a request for control system information when it polls a remote server over a wide area network, the request transmitted to the remote server from a user interface;
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- the wireless gateway providing the requested control system information to the remote server for delivery to the user interface;
- the user interface never retrieving any information from the remote server that was not left at the remote server by the gateway in response to a user interface request.
A gateway single source of information system, comprising:
- a local area network comprising:
- an actuating node;
- a powered device connected to and actuated by the actuating device;
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- a gateway wirelessly coupled to the actuating node on the local area network, the gateway storing data regarding the operation of the actuating device;
- a remote server that is remote from the local area network and coupled to the gateway through a wide area network, the remote server having a database storing a periodically backed up copy of the data stored on the gateway;
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- a user interface device for communicating with the gateway;
- wherein the gateway comprises a processor and a computer readable storage medium including code executable by the processor to:
- receive and store from the actuating device an update to the data regarding a change in operation of the powered device connected to the actuating device;
- receive and store from the user interface device another update to the data regarding another change in operation of the powered device;
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- receive a prompt for information regarding the powered device from the user interface device such that:
- when the user interface device is communicating on the local area network, wirelessly transmit from the gateway to the user interface via the local area network a subset of the current data stored on the gateway regarding current operation of the powered device;
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- when the user interface device is not communicating on the local area network, transmit, from only the gateway to the user interface via the remote server, a subset of the current data stored on the gateway regarding current operation of the powered device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.