Automatic installation process for wireless communication system
AssigneeCedardell Limited
InventorRobert Edmund Todd
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Abstract
A method of inserting a communications module (6) into a wireless communication system (1) comprising at least one control module (2) and a plurality of communications modules (3, 4, 5) is disclosed. The system (1) is adapted to transmit messages either directly or indirectly between modules and each module is adapted to receive a wireless message and transmit a wireless message to a further communications module or to a control module. The communications module (6) is inserted into the system (1) and transmits a first signal in a set-up mode. If the first signal is detected by at least one pair of modules (2, 3, 4, 5), the communications module (6), by means of a signal from a control module (2), is installed to communicate directly with the two modules of at least one pair of modules.
Claims9
A method of inserting a communications module into a wireless communication system comprising at least one control module and a plurality of first communication modules, wherein the system is adapted to transmit messages either directly or indirectly between modules, and wherein each said first communications module is adapted to receive a wireless message and transmit said message to a further first communications module or to a said control module, and is programmed with respective addresses identifying modules with which it communicates messages directly when in a communication mode, the method comprising:
- (i) causing a second communications module, which is to be inserted into the system, to transmit a first signal in a set-up mode;
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- (ii) if said first signal is directed by at least two said modules capable of communicating directly with each other, causing said second communication module, by means of a second signal from at least one said control module updating the address of one of said modules which detected said first signal, to be installed to communicate directly, when in said communication mode, with two said modules which detected said first signal, including the module whose address was updated by said second signal.
A method of automatically setting up a wireless communication system comprising at least one control module and a plurality of communications modules, wherein the system is adapted to transmit messages either directly or indirectly between modules, and wherein each said communications module is adapted to receive a wireless message and transmit said message to a further communications module or to a said control module, and is programmed with a respective address identifying modules with which it communicates message directly when in a communication mode, the method comprising:
- (i) causing a first communications module to transmit a first signal in a set-up mode;
- (ii) if said first signal is received by at least one said control module, causing said first communication module, by means of a second signal from a said control module which received said first message, to communicate in said communication mode directly with said control module which received said first message;
- (iii) causing a second communications module to transmit a third signal in a set-up mode;
- (iv) if said third signal is detected by said first communications module and said control module which received said first message, causing, by means of a fourth signal from said control module, said second communications module to communicate directly with the first communications module and said control module, and said first communications module to communicate directly with said second communications module, in said communication mode.
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