Patent ID: 6370489
Filing Date: 2002-04-09
Classification: H05B

Abstract:
A base station for monitoring a plurality of lamps by receiving RF monitoring data having an ID field and a status field, comprising:an RX antenna system for receiving the RF monitoring data; a receiving system front end, coupled to said RX antenna system, for receiving the RF monitoring data and outputting received RF monitoring data; a multi-port splitter, coupled to said receiving system front end, for receiving the received RF monitoring data and outputting split RF monitoring data; a plurality of RX modems, coupled to said multi-port splitter, each for receiving and demodulating the split RF monitoring data and outputting a received data signal; a computing system, coupled to said plurality of RX modems, for receiving the received data signal from each of said plurality of RX modems; and an ID and status processing unit, within said computing system, for processing the ID field of the received data signal.