Patent ID: 8437276

Claim:
A method of design, installation, and formation, of a network that comprises wired and wireless devices and wired and wireless links, the method comprising the stages of: creating a design of said network, said design comprising parameters and design configuration data of devices designed to be in said network and binding information defining bindings to allow connection between devices to run an application; installing said devices according to said created design by accessing said created design by a commissioning tool and downloading data from said commissioning tool into a configuration adapter comprised in said devices before the devices are initialized; and forming said network and bindings according to said created design by initializing said devices and by reading said downloaded data from the configuration adapter once the devices are initialized; and wherein said commissioning tool comprises a configuration adapter for a complementary configuration link, wherein of the configuration adapters included in the system, only said configuration adapter of said commissioning tool must be powered-up during data communication between said at least one commissioning tool and said devices.