Patent ID: 8518262

Claim:
A method of integrating water treatment assemblies to facilitate operation of a reverse osmosis assembly, comprising: providing at least one reverse osmosis assembly and a master controller; fluidly coupling at least one water treatment assembly to said reverse osmosis assembly; providing an information chip on the at least one water treatment assembly, the information chip storing identification information corresponding to operating characteristics of the at least one water treatment assembly; connecting, on a wireless personal area network, said at least one water treatment assembly to said reverse osmosis assembly master controller; said master controller monitoring and controlling said at least one water treatment assembly based upon operational characteristics of said reverse osmosis assembly, the master controller configured to receive the identification information and automatically recognize all operating characteristics of said at least one water treatment assembly upon the connecting of said at least one water treatment assembly; whereby said master controller provides operational instructions to each said water treatment assembly based on the operational characteristics of said reverse osmosis assembly.