Patent ID: 9389850
Filing Date: 2016-07-12
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
1. An energy management and control system comprising: a supervisor controller having a first versioning service component; one or more site controllers, having a second versioning service component, connected to the supervisor controller; and one or more field devices, having firmware, connected to the one or more site controllers; and wherein: the first versioning service component has a configuration that enables automatic detection by the supervisor controller of new version firmware for the one or more field devices; a query is made by the first versioning service component to the second versioning service component for an inventory of the one or more field devices to determine which field devices, if any, are appropriate for receipt of the new version firmware; the first versioning service component launches a versioning job process and transfers the new version firmware to the second versioning service component to continue the versioning job process; and the versioning job process comprises installing the new version firmware in the one or more field devices determined as appropriate for receipt of the new version firmware.