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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 13, 2004
Filed:
Feb. 27, 2001
John I. Compton, Lexington, KY (US);
Point Six Wireless, LLC, Lexington, KY (US);
Abstract
A microprocessor, powered by a low cost battery, controls a wireless transmitter of a communication system. A sensor senses the value of at least one condition at a predetermined location. The transmitter transmits to a wireless receiver a data packet, which includes the value of the at least one condition, at randomly selected transmission time intervals. Closing of a multiple function push button switch activates an inactive microprocessor to cause its controlled transmitter to transmit irrespective of the selected transmission time interval until the next transmission if the switch is opened before a predetermined period of time elapses or to cause inactivation of the activated microprocessor for the longest available inactive period of time if the switch is held closed for the predetermined period of time.