Communication and energy control system for houses

Abstract From the Canadian patent

An automated system for providing different services within a house includes an appliance coordination data network for communicating relatively low speed digital data within a house, a high capacity data network for transferring high speed digital data within the house, an energy distribution system for distributing energy throughout the house, an analog services distribution system for distributing conventional analog signals throughout the house and a video services distribution network for distributing video services throughout the house. The appliance coordination network interfaces with the energy distribution system to control the flow of energy to appliances throughout the house …