Apparatus and Method for Network Control
A manner of facilitating management of remote devices, especially remote sensory devices, for example Zigbee devices, used in a home or small business. In one aspect, the present invention is a system for managing remote devices including an ACS and a proxy device, where the ACS and the proxy device are configured to communicate with each other at least in part using a data model including a data object and an associated device object. In a preferred embodiment, data object includes a network sub-object and an application sub-object.
1 . A system for managing remote devices, comprising:
an ACS; and
a proxy device;
wherein the ACS and the proxy device are configured to communicate with each other at least in part using a data model, the data model comprising:
a data object comprising a network sub-object and an applications sub-object; and
an associated device object comprising a network interface parameter to reference a network sub-object.
2 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the data object further comprises a node descriptor and a power descriptor.
3 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the network sub-object further comprises an interface object and a node manager object, wherein the node manager object comprises routing tables.
4 . The system of claim 3 , the network sub-object further comprises a neighbor list.
5 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the application object contains bindings, application profiles, device profiles, group information, and security elements.
6 . The system of claim 5 , wherein the application object further contains a list of active endpoints.
7 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the proxy device is operable according to a ZigBee protocol and the data object is a (ZDO) ZigBee Data Object.
8 . The system of claim 7 , further comprising a ZigBee Coordinator.
9 . The system of claim 1 further comprising a device discovery object.