Patent ID: 6624750
Filing Date: 2003-09-23
Classification: G08B

Abstract:
A method of automatically programming a wireless sense and/or control system to enroll one or more sensor devices distributed at different locations throughout a spatial region, comprising:providing a two-way wireless communication capability between a base station having a base station transceiver and at least one of the sensor devices having a sensor device transceiver; initiating an enroll condition in the base station to place the system in a sensor device enroll mode; introducing a trigger event to a sensor device and delivering from the sensor device transceiver to the base station transceiver in response to the trigger event a new device message signal identifying the sensor device; delivering from the base station transceiver to the sensor device transceiver in response to the new device message signal a programming signal indicating a sensor device address; and storing the sensor device address in the sensor device.