AN INTEGRATED PROGRAMMABLE SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING THE OPERATION OF ELECTRICAL AND/OR ELECTRONIC APPLIANCES OF A PREMISES

摘要

There is disclosed an integrated programmable system (100) for controlling the operation of a number of electrical and/or electronic appliances of a premises, the appliances being controllable electrically, electronically, wirelessly, by infrared and/or by radio frequency, the system including a central data processing apparatus, e.g. a home server (106), or a central controller (120), connected with a common digital communication backbone (124), and the central data processing apparatus is connectable with the appliances via the digital communication backbone.