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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 20, 2014
Filed:
Oct. 30, 2012
Tesla Controls Corporation, San Diego, CA (US);
Derek Matthew Smith, San Diego, CA (US);
Tesla Controls Corporation, San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
A lighting control system comprising a plurality of intelligent switches designed to replace a conventional light switch, each of the intelligent switches including a receiver configured to receive communication signals that include rules based instructions for controlling one or more lighting circuits; a circuit interrupter configured to control the amount of current flowing to a lighting circuit; a memory configured to store the rules based instructions; and a processor coupled with the receiver, memory, and circuit interrupter, the processor configured to control the operation of the circuit interrupter based on the rules based instructions stored in memory.