Patent ID: 7209958

Claim:
A system for remote control of one or more sports lights located at a sports field, the system comprising: a plurality of high powered, high intensity discharge (HID) sports field light banks having a plurality of HID lights and located proximate the sports field; an electronic control unit electrically connected to and adapted to control one or more operational functions of the high powered, HID sports field lights; a base station transceiver electrically connected to the electronic control unit for receiving and transmitting wireless wide area network communication signals, the wireless wide area network communication signals having a band with substantially greater than a cellular network control channel; a point of presence transceiver communicatively connected to an wide area network for relaying the wide area network communication signals to and from the base station transceiver; and a control central remote from the electronic control unit and communicatively connected to the wide area network for originating operational function commands of the high powered, HID sports field lights and communicating the commands to the base station transceiver through the wide area network.