Patent ID: 8538584

Claim:
A method comprising: defining one or more influence zones, a particular influence zone of the one or more influence zones including information identifying one or more networked controllers that can control a device capable of modifying an environmental condition within the particular influence zone; receiving an alert message from a reporting wireless network sensor via a wireless sensor network, the wireless sensor network comprising a plurality of stationary wireless network sensors in wireless data communication, each wireless network sensor being configured to sense at least one environmental condition and configured to route data to and from other wireless network sensors of the wireless sensor network, the alert message being routed from the reporting wireless network sensor to a gateway by transiting through at least one intermediate stationary wireless network sensor of the wireless sensor network, the alert message including information indicative of to modification needed to an environmental condition; using the influence one information to determine which one of the one or more networked controllers can control a device capable of modifying the environmental condition within the particular influence zone; and using the information indicative of a modification needed to an environmental condition at a networked controller to command the device capable of modifying, the environmental condition within the particular influence zone to modify the environmental condition in a manner corresponding to the information in the alert message.