Patent ID: 9655810
Date: 2017-05-23
CPC Classifications: A61H,G01D,G01R,G05B,G06F,G06Q,H04L,H04W,Y02B,Y04S

Claim:
1. A method comprising: configuring a spa controller at a user site to control operation of a plurality of spa components and to generate status data regarding the status of one or more of said components; configuring a spa network adapter at the user site to communicate with said spa controller to receive data including status data from said spa controller and to transmit data and commands to said spa controller, the spa network adapter having a wireless transceiver; sensing the current drawn by one or more selected spa components and determining the power being drawn by said one or more spa components to generate power data; transmitting both the power data and status data from the wireless transceiver of the spa network adapter over a wireless link to another component of a spa networking system at the user site; employing an address unique to the user site in the course of transmitting a command received from a spa owner computer or a spa dealer computer to the wireless transceiver of the spa network adapter; and further configuring the spa network adapter to transmit a received command from another adapter at the user site to the spa controller for execution.