Patent ID: 7817060

Claim:
A control system, comprising: at least one master node; at least one slave node operable to be operably coupled to the at least one master node; and at least one radio frequency communication interface for operably coupling the master and slave nodes; wherein the master node is adapted to remotely control the operation of the slave nodes; wherein at least one of the master nodes comprises: a controller operably coupled to the radio frequency communication interface; a user interface operably coupled to the controller; and memory operably coupled to the controller the memory comprising; a devices database comprising one or more node information frames corresponding to one or more of the slave devices comprising: a generic device class; a specific device class; a command class; a protection command class; a version command class; a manufacturing command class; and an all switch command class; wherein the controller further comprises: a scenes engine adapted to configure and control one or more scenes comprising one or more of the slave devices.