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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 05, 2010
Filed:
Nov. 20, 2008
Richard N. Quirino, East Lyme, CT (US);
Gregory F. Schuerer, Mystic, CT (US);
Philipp A. Roosli, Niantic, CT (US);
Duane W. Buckingham, Old Lyme, CT (US);
Richard N. Quirino, East Lyme, CT (US);
Gregory F. Schuerer, Mystic, CT (US);
Philipp A. Roosli, Niantic, CT (US);
Duane W. Buckingham, Old Lyme, CT (US);
Inncom International Inc., Niantic, CT (US);
Abstract
A system is provided for use in a multi-unit building by which an occupant of a unit of the multi-unit building controls an appliance associated with the unit and includes an actuator which is accessible to the occupant, a processing unit to control the appliance, operative in the first mode, based on occupant instructions, to change the mode of the appliance based on an actuation of the actuator and to control the appliance, operative in the second mode, according to a preselected schedule, and a networking unit to inform, via communications, a monitor of the multi-unit building as to when the appliance operates in the second mode.