Patent ID: 6792319
Filing Date: 2004-09-14
Classification: F24F,G05B,H05B,Y02B

Abstract:
A home automation system for a home having a plurality of rooms separated by doorways, wherein each of the rooms has at least one of the doorways associated therewith, the system comprising:a plurality of controlled objects each disposed in one of the plurality of rooms; a plurality of entry/exit sensors each disposed at one of the doorways to detect movement of a person therethrough; a plurality of room motion sensors each disposed in one of the plurality of rooms to detect occupancy by a person therein; and a controller for controlling the controlled objects in response to detected movement by the plurality of entry/exit sensors and detected occupancy by the plurality of room motion sensors; wherein for at least one of the rooms: the controller assigns the one room to a first room state in response to no detected movement by any of the entry/exit sensors at the doorway associated with the one room and to no detected occupancy by any of the room motion sensors disposed in the one room, to a second room state in response to detected movement by any of the entry/exit sensors at the doorway associated with the one room, and to a third room state in response to detected occupancy by any of the room motion sensors disposed in the one room; and the control of any of the controlled objects in the one room by the controller varies depending upon which of the first, the second and the third room states the one room is assigned to.