Patent ID: 9442500
Filing Date: 2016-09-13
CPC Classification: G05B,G05D

Claim Text:
1. A central device of a building control network, comprising: a wireless interface for sending and receiving one or more commands to/from one or more perimeter devices and another central device, the one or more perimeter devices each configured to send out an associate command when instructed to by a user, and the another central device having an associate mode for associating one or more perimeter devices with the another central device; a controller coupled to the wireless interface, the controller having an associate mode, wherein once in the associate mode, the controller is programmed to receive one or more associate commands from one or more perimeter devices, and once received, add the corresponding one or more perimeter devices to an associated device list; and wherein after one or more perimeter devices have been added to the associated device list, and when the controller is not in the associate mode, the controller is programmed to receive one or more additional associate commands from one or more additional perimeter devices, and in response, the controller is configured to place itself into the associate mode, send out one or more instructions to the another central device to take the another central device out of its associate mode and to reconfigure the another central device as another perimeter device, add the another perimeter device to the associated device list of the controller such that the another perimeter device becomes associated with the controller, and add the one or more additional perimeter devices to the associated device list of the controller.