Patent ID: 8604914

Claim:
A power system comprising: a power line that provides power to a smart power socket and connects the smart power socket to one or more smart switches; a first receiver in the smart power socket that receives a first power request over the power line from one of the smart switches, the first power request including a requested area identifier; a memory that stores one or more socket area identifiers corresponding to the smart power socket; a processor included in the smart power socket apparatus that retrieves the one or more socket area identifiers from the memory and generates a second power request in response to at least one of the one or more retrieved socket area identifiers matching the requested area identifier of the first power request; a transmitter in the smart power socket that sends the second power request to a device over a power cord that connects the smart power socket to the device; a second receiver in the smart power socket that receives a power response from the device, the power response corresponding to the second power request transmitted from the smart power socket; a power setting identified by the processor, wherein the power setting is based on the received power response; and a power regulator that regulates power from the smart power socket to the device using the identified power setting.