Patent 8260471 was granted and assigned to Herman Miller (manufacturer) on September, 2012 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
An energy management system (400) includes a series of smart devices (404) connected through a network system communications bus (402). The smart devices (404) are connected to loads (408) and include energy monitor boards (448) and a core board (450) for monitoring energy consumption of the loads (408) and transmitting the energy consumption data to a gateway (410).