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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 07, 2017
Filed:
Oct. 10, 2012
Automation devices, systems, architectures, and methods for energy management and other applications
Applicant:
Autani, Llc, Nashville, TN (US);
Inventor:
Randy Clayton, Frederick, MD (US);
Assignee:
Autani, LLC, Nashville, TN (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G05B 11/01 (2006.01); G05B 15/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G05B 15/02 (2013.01);
Abstract
A building control and management system including an automation controller and a plurality of peripheral devices configured to perform building control-management system functions. The automation controller and peripheral devices communicate wirelessly and the peripheral devices can be enabled and disabled as wireless repeaters in a network formed by the automation controller and the peripheral devices. The automation controller can monitor the communication traffic levels in the wireless network and enable or disable peripheral devices as wireless repeaters to increase or decrease the communication traffic in the network.