Configurable Wireless Power Control and Management
AssigneeKortek Industries Pty Ltd
InventorsBarrie Davis, Benjamin Davis, Gary Wisniewski
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Abstract
A power control device for controlling the supply of electricity to an electrical apparatus or system. The power control device includes a microcontroller having an operating system with a firmware component that has at least one sandboxed software plug-in slot for accepting a communications protocol software plug-in to configure the microcontroller according to the communications protocol of the communications protocol software plug-in.
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A power control device for controlling a supply of electricity to an electrical apparatus or system, the device comprising:
- a radio transceiver configured to communicate with a personal controller;
- a power control circuit configured to reduce or terminate the supply of electricity to the electrical apparatus or system;
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- a microcontroller having an operating system with a firmware component, said firmware component including at least one sandboxed software plug-in slot for accepting a communications protocol software plug-in to configure the microcontroller according to the communications protocol of the communications protocol software plug-in.
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A method for provisioning a power control device to communicate with a cloud platform, comprising:
- receiving, at the power control device, a communications protocol software plug-in configured for a first cloud platform;
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- configuring the power control device according to the communications protocol of the communications protocol software plug-in received.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.