Smart wiring devices
AssigneePass & Seymour, Inc.
InventorsAnthony M. Testani, Joshua P. Haines, Thomas Cunningham
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Abstract
A protective wiring device disposed in an electrical distribution system, the device comprising: a plurality of line terminals comprising a line-side phase terminal and a line-side neutral terminal; a plurality of load terminals comprising a load-side phase terminal and a load-side neutral terminal; a line conductor electrically coupling the line-side phase terminal to the load-side phase terminal; a neutral conductor electrically coupling the line-side neutral terminal to the load-side neutral terminal; a controller configured to transmit wirelessly data derived from signals present on at least one of the line conductor or the neutral conductor and to receive wirelessly receive at least one command.
Claims24
A protective wiring device disposed in an electrical distribution system, the device comprising:
- a plurality of line terminals comprising a line-side phase terminal and a line-side neutral terminal;
- a plurality of load terminals comprising a load-side phase terminal and a load-side neutral terminal;
- a line conductor electrically coupling the line-side phase terminal to the load-side phase terminal;
- a neutral conductor electrically coupling the line-side neutral terminal to the load-side neutral terminal;
- a controller, including a transceiver, being configured to transmit wirelessly via the transceiver, data derived from signals present on at least one of the line conductor or the neutral conductor and to receive wirelessly via the transceiver, at least one command.
The protective wiring device of claim 11, wherein the controller is configured to disable a remote reset functionality upon a determination that the wiring device tripped from a ground fault.
A protective wiring device disposed in an electrical distribution system, the device comprising:
- a plurality of line terminals comprising a line-side phase terminal and a line-side neutral terminal;
- a plurality of load terminals comprising a load-side phase terminal and a load-side neutral terminal;
- a line conductor electrically coupling the line-side phase terminal to the load-side phase terminal;
- a neutral conductor electrically coupling the line-side neutral terminal to the load-side neutral terminal;
- a controller configured to determine a type of fault based on at least two values representative of a polarity of a current imbalance between the line conductor and neutral conductor, a frequency of the imbalanced current between the line conductor and neutral conductor, and a presence of a fault.
A network of smart devices implementing disparate network standards, comprising:
- a border router in wireless communication with at least one of a first plurality of smart devices, the smart devices being connected through a first network connection standard, the border router being configured to issue commands to the at least one of the first plurality of smart devices, wherein the border router is in further communication with an access point, the access point being in wireless communication with a second plurality of smart devices, the second plurality of smart devices being connected to the access point through a second network connection standard, wherein the border router is configured to issue commands to the access point such that the commands are sent to at least one of the second plurality of smart devices, wherein the at least one of the second plurality of smart devices is controlled by the commands issued to the access point.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.