Wireless transceiver module and system employing a wireless transceiver apparatus between a portable communicating device and a communication network

• US 20040204075A1
• Filed: 05/29/2002
• Published: 10/14/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 05/29/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Eaton Corp. (Wisconsin) (Eaton Corporation PLC.)
• Original Assignee: Eaton Corp. (Wisconsin) (Eaton Corporation PLC.)
• Inventors: Troemel, Stephen Thomas, Rusnak, Mark Frederick, Engel, Joseph Charles, Luebke, Charles John
• Application Number:
  US10/157,772
• Publication Number:
  US 20040204075A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/557
• CPC Class Codes: G08C 2201/21 Programming remote control devices via third means
• CPC Class Codes: G08C 23/04 using light waves, e.g. infrared

Abstract

A wireless transceiver module includes a wireless transceiver communicating with a portable communicating device, such as a personal digital assistant, through a wireless port. An interface is provided to a communication network, such as an INCOM network or a CH-Wire network, for a plurality of control and distribution electrical devices having a plurality of electrical parameters. A processor includes routines for monitoring and configuring the electrical parameters of the electrical devices from the portable communicating device through the wireless port.

Claims

1. A wireless transceiver module comprising:

means for communicating with a communication network for a plurality of first communicating devices having a plurality of parameters;

means for communicating with a portable second communicating device through a wireless port; and

means for monitoring or configuring said parameters of said first communicating devices from said portable second communicating device through said wireless port.

2. The wireless transceiver module as recited in claim 1 wherein said wireless port is an infrared port;

and wherein said means for communicating with a portable second communicating device includes an infrared transceiver.

3. The wireless transceiver module as recited in claim 1 wherein said communication network is an INCOM network.

4. The wireless transceiver module as recited in claim 1 wherein said communication network includes a gateway having a first RS-232 port;

and wherein said means for communicating with a communication network includes a second RS-232 port communicating with the first RS-232 port.

5. The wireless transceiver module as recited in claim 1 wherein said first communicating devices include a plurality of trip units.

6. The wireless transceiver module as recited in claim 1 wherein said parameters include a plurality of measured electrical values;

and wherein said means for monitoring or configuring includes means for monitoring said measured electrical values.

7. The wireless transceiver module as recited in claim 1 wherein said parameters include a plurality of setpoint values;

and wherein said means for monitoring or configuring includes means for configuring said setpoint values.

8. The wireless transceiver module as recited in claim 1 wherein said means for monitoring or configuring includes means for controlling said first communicating devices.

9. A system for monitoring or configuring communicating devices, said system comprising:

a communication network for a plurality of first communicating devices having a plurality of parameters;

a portable second communicating device including a first wireless port and a memory storing at least some of said parameters; and

a wireless transceiver apparatus comprising;

a second wireless port in communication with said portable second communicating device through said first wireless port;

an interface to said communication network; and

a processor monitoring or configuring said parameters from said portable second communicating device through said first and second wireless ports.

10. The system as recited in claim 9 wherein said first and second wireless ports are infrared ports.

11. The system as recited in claim 9 wherein said communication network is an INCOM network.

12. The system as recited in claim 9 wherein said communication network includes a gateway having a first RS-232 port;

and wherein said interface includes a second RS-232 port communicating with the first RS-232 port.

13. The system as recited in claim 9 wherein said parameters include a plurality of measured electrical values;

and wherein said processor includes a routine monitoring said measured electrical values.

14. The system as recited in claim 9 wherein said parameters include a plurality of setpoint values;

and wherein said processor includes a routine configuring said setpoint values.

15. The system as recited in claim 9 wherein said processor includes a routine controlling said first communicating devices.

16. The system as recited in claim 9 wherein said processor includes a program and an RS-232 transceiver for updating said program from a personal computer.

17. The system as recited in claim 9 wherein said first communicating devices are control and distribution devices.

18. The system as recited in claim 9 wherein said first communicating devices include a breaker interface module.

19. The system as recited in claim 9 wherein said portable second communicating device is a personal digital assistant.

20. The system as recited in claim 9 wherein said processor includes means for remotely controlling said first communicating devices from said portable second communicating device through said first and second wireless ports.