Patent ID: 7346467

Claim:
A method for controlling an environmental control system, wherein the environmental control system includes one or more setpoints for each of two or more time periods, the environmental control system controlling one or more environmental conditions of an inside space of a user's facility/home/building in accordance with the two or more time periods and the one or more set points, the method comprising the steps of: establishing a communication link with the environmental control system from a location that is remote from the user's facility/home/building; sending one or more commands to the environmental control system from the remote location via the communication link, the one or more commands used in determining one or more new setpoints for the environmental control system; identifying a new setpoint for each of the two or more time periods based, at least in part, on one or more of the received commands; and controlling one or more environmental conditions of the inside space of the user's facility/home/building in accordance with the two or more time periods and the one or more new points.