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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 03, 2018
Filed:
Jan. 06, 2015
Afero, Inc., Los Altos, CA (US);
Joe Britt, Los Altos, CA (US);
Justin Lee, Berkeley, CA (US);
Afero, Inc., Los Altos, CA (US);
Abstract
A system and method for Internet of Things (IoT) Implementations for controlling electronic equipment. One embodiment of a system includes: an IoT hub that includes a network interface to couple the IoT hub to an IoT service over a wide area network (WAN), and at least one IoT device communicatively coupled to the IoT hub over a wireless communication channel. The IoT device includes an infrared (IR) or radio frequency (RF) blaster to control environmental control equipment via IR or RF communication with the environmental control equipment, at least one sensor to measure current environmental conditions capable of being controlled by the environmental control equipment, the IoT device to transmit an indication of the current conditions to the IoT hub over the wireless communication channel; and the IoT hub includes a remote control code database to store remote control codes usable to control the environmental control equipment.