Patent ID: 6813525
Filing Date: 2004-11-02
Classification: G06Q,H05B,Y02B

Abstract:
A programmable control system, comprising:a plurality of inputs for connecting to sensors; a plurality of outputs for connecting to actuators capable of manual override and providing status feedback signals to the control system; means, operable in a learn mode and responsive to the status feedback signals, for learning associations between the inputs and the outputs and recording the associations in a memory in response to a human operator selecting one of the inputs and manually toggling selected ones of the actuators between first and second positions; and means, operable in a run mode, for commanding the selected ones of the actuators to one of the first and second positions in response to a change in state of an external sensor connected to the one of the inputs, whereby the human operator has programmed an output response to input activity by manual manipulation of the connected sensors and actuators.