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Home automation identification system

  • US 20010048373A1
  • Filed: 01/17/2001
  • Published: 12/06/2001
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/19/2000
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. A system for identifying the constituent smart appliances in a given home automation family, each of the smart appliances having an address register for containing identification information, the system comprising:

  • an inductive transceiver connected to an address register of a first constituent appliance, the address register having identification information; and

    a portable inductive data holder having a portable address register adapted to be placed near said inductive transceiver, wherein the identification information of the first constituent appliance is inductively received into said portable address register of said portable inductive data holder when said portable inductive data holder is placed near said inductive transceiver.

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