Configurable Wireless Power Control and Management
AssigneeRuth Gray
InventorsBenjamin Davis, Gary Wisniewski, Barrie Davis
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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.
Claims8
A power management device integrated into an electrical apparatus or system for controlling a supply of electricity from the electrical apparatus or system, the power management 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 from 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.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.