Patent ID: 8457793

Claim:
A method of controlling and managing a plurality of system managers, a plurality of lights and devices, including human interfaces and building automation devices, comprising: a system manager collecting data from the plurality of lights and devices, the system manage using the collected data to determine an adjacency of lights and devices; the system manager dynamically placing the plurality of lights and device into zones and binding human interfaces to the zones, and a dynamic configuration of the devices to control the zones, wherein at least one of the human interfaces comprises a personal digital assistant (PDA), and light levels are used to confirm a location of the PDA; the devices performing self-calibration and self-commissioning; the system manager and devices performing ongoing calibration and commissioning; the system manager and devices operating resiliently in case of failure of the system manager, other devices, or software or hardware failures in the devices; the system manager and the devices operating on the collected data to determine usage patterns, and to efficiently manage the plurality of lights and devices.