Patent ID: 11869344
Assignee: LUTRON TECHNOLOGY COMPANY LLC
Field: Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H  Y | IPC G  H

Claim 6:
7. A load control system configured to control an amount of power provided to an electrical load using load control messages from a plurality of one-way sensors, the load control system comprising:
a first one-way communication sensor configured to:
detect a first status event during a first status event sampling time interval,
generate a first load control message based on the first status event, and
transmit the first load control message at an end of the first status event sampling time interval; and

a second one-way communication sensor configured to:
detect a second status event during a second status event sampling time interval,
generate a second load control message based on the second status event,
determine a transmission time interval for transmitting the second load control message, wherein the transmission time interval follows the second status event sampling time interval, and wherein the transmission time interval includes at least one other status event sampling time interval; and
transmit the second load control message at a random time within the transmission time interval.