Systems and methods for rules based, automated lighting control
AssigneeTesla Controls Corporation
InventorDerek Matthew Smith
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Abstract
A lighting control system comprising a plurality of intelligent switches designed to replace a conventional light switch, each of the intelligent switches including a receiver configured to receive communication signals that include rules based instructions for controlling one or more lighting circuits; a circuit interrupter configured to control the amount of current flowing to a lighting circuit; a memory configured to store the rules based instructions; and a processor coupled with the receiver, memory, and circuit interrupter, the processor configured to control the operation of the circuit interrupter based on the rules based instructions stored in memory.
Claims24
A lighting control system comprising a plurality of intelligent switches, each of the intelligent switches including:
- a receiver configured to receive communication signals that include rules based instructions for controlling one or more lighting circuits;
- a circuit interrupter configured to control the amount of energy flowing to a lighting circuit;
- a memory configured to store the rules based instructions;
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- a processor coupled with the receiver, memory, and circuit interrupter, the processor configured to control the operation of the circuit interrupter based on the rules based instructions stored in memory.
A lighting control system, comprising:
- a plurality of intelligent switches, each of the intelligent switches including:
- a receiver configured to receive communication signals that include rules based instructions for controlling one or more lighting circuits,
- a circuit interrupter configured to control the amount of energy flowing to a lighting circuit,
- a memory configured to store the rules based instructions, and
- a processor coupled with the receiver, memory, and circuit interrupter, the processor configured to control the operation of the circuit interrupter based on the rules based instructions stored in memory;
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- a gateway, the gateway including:
- a first transceiver configured to communicate with a remote server in order to receive rules based instructions for control of a plurality of intelligent switches, and
- a transmitter configured to transmit the rules based instructions to the plurality of intelligent switches.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.