Patent ID: 8093751

Claim:
A system for controlling electrical power to an electrically-powered device, the system comprising: at least one apparatus comprising a housing having at least one power outlet connection, a processor, and a transceiver for receiving commands to the apparatus and for transmitting information from the apparatus; an electrically-powered device, the device connected to the at least one power outlet connection of the at least on apparatus; and a controller for transmitting a plurality of commands to the at least one apparatus; and at least one wireless router for receiving each of the plurality of commands from the controller and wirelessly transmitting each of the plurality of commands to the transceiver of the at least one apparatus; wherein a command of the plurality of commands from the controller can control electrical power to the electrically powered device through the processor of the at least one apparatus which is configured to control electrical power to the electrically powered device from the at least one power outlet connection.