Patent ID: 8064412
Filing Date: 2011-11-22
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. An environmental management system to communicate environmental management data, the system comprising: a plurality of wireless transmitters to transmit information, the transmitters configured to format information as wireless data packets comprising codes indicative of an operating state associated with the transmitters, the codes being stored in a look up table accessible by a data formatter associated with said transmitters and said data formatter selecting a code for transmission in response to the operating state; a plurality of repeaters to receive information transmitted from one of the wireless transmitters, wherein the transmitters can access any of the repeaters such that the repeaters are not individually associated with the transmitters, and wherein the received information relates to environmental management data; a computer; and a gateway; wherein the repeaters communicate via TCP/IP the information to the computer and the computer executes a program to monitor information provided to the computer from the repeaters; wherein the gateway receives information from the computer and provides the information to a network via a WAN; wherein the computer program comprises: a first segment to evaluate a message and identify a specific transmitter that transmitted the message; a second segment to evaluate the message and identify a specific repeater that relayed the message from the specific transmitter to the computer; a third segment to evaluate the information and the message transmitted from a transmitter; and a fourth segment to determine an action to be taken based upon the information, the identified transmitter, and the identified repeater.