Patent ID: 8768493

Claim:
A light controller system, comprising: one or more light fixtures, each light fixture of the one or more light fixture electrically coupled via a power line, each light fixture of the one or more light fixtures comprising: a protocol conversion module configured to convert instructions between power line communication and remote device management communication of the RDM protocol, called RDM communication, a communication module configured to communicate the power line communication over the power line, and a light controller configured to control one or more light emitting diodes (LEDS) in the respective light fixture based on the instructions; a master controller comprising: a protocol conversion module configured to convert the instructions between the power line communication and the RDM communication, the protocol conversion module of the master controller is further configured to: identify the instructions in the RDM communication; and encapsulate the identified instructions in the power line communication, the identified instructions are a smaller byte size than the RDM communication; and a communication module configured to communicate the power line communication over the power line.