Patent ID: 7363031
Filing Date: 2008-04-22
Classification: H02J,H04W,Y02B,Y02D,Y02E,Y04S

Abstract:
1. A system for monitoring and controlling one or more electric users that communicate over a first communication network, the system including: A. one or more nodes for communicating between respective ones of the one or more electric users over the communication network and communicating peer-to-peer with each other; and B. a transmitter/receiver incorporated into a given one of the one or more electric users for communicating between the communication network and a remote network or remote terminal, the transmitter/receiver and the given electric user sharing the same node, the transmitter/receiver receiving SMS messages from the remote network or remote terminal and transmitting SMS messages to the remote network or remote terminal, the SMS messages from the remote network having coded therein control instructions including at least one of: