Patent ID: 7606635

Claim:
A method for controlling environmental conditions in a plurality of zones using a corresponding plurality of environmental controllers, comprising: associating at least one respective damper with each of the plurality of zones; binding each environmental controller with a respective one of the zones using respective unique identifiers associated with each of the environmental controllers for subsequent communications without further binding, and for each zone, operating a respective binding switch associated with the zone in connection with a binding process; sensing at least one environmental threshold condition at the environmental controller, and in response thereto assembling at least one command to initiate adjustment of the environmental condition of the zone bound to the respective environmental controller; wirelessly transmitting the at least one command from respective ones of the environmental controllers that sense the at least one environmental threshold condition, wherein each of the commands includes a respective unique identifier associated with the respective environmental controller; receiving the commands at a zone controller configured to receive the commands from the plurality of the environmental controllers; determining via the zone controller which of the plurality of zones each received command is associated with, in response to the zone controller receiving the unique identifiers from the respective ones of the environmental controllers; and controlling, via the zone controller, the at least one damper in each zone in response to the zone controller determining which of the plurality of zones each received command is associated with.