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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 04, 2001
Filed:
Jun. 29, 1998
David Ellison, Westport, CT (US);
John R. Baldwin, Newtown, CT (US);
Thomas J. Batko, Wallingford, CT (US);
David D. Yu, Cresskill, NJ (US);
Hubbell Incorporated, Orange, CT (US);
Abstract
A multifunction user interface provided as an add-on option to a more basic multifunction sensor which does not provide a display or keypad, to provide a local user interface to access and control parameters of a control network. The basic multifunction sensor provides a plurality of parameter sensors in one sensor housing, and can interface with and control operation of one or more processor control systems connected by a network bus in an occupied space networked environment. The basic sensor comprises at least an occupancy sensor, a temperature sensor, and a common network communications and control processor coupled to a common communication transceiver. This allows the basic multifunction sensor to interface with and control operation of one or more processor control systems in an occupied space networked environment. The add-on multifunction user interface comprises a display controlled by a display controller and a keypad input controlled by a keypad controller, which are electrically coupled to the communications and- control processor to provide the local user interface.