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Abstract

A home automation system for automatically controlling the electric lights and appliances in a Jewish family's home or Jewish institution. The system is preset to generate a regular schedules for Shabbos and Jewish Holidays based on the Jewish calendar and may also generate regular weekday scheduled events. Special schedules such as vacation mode, guest mode, summer mode and the like may be added and adjusted by the user as well. The special schedules or modes may be manually activated by a mechanical device outside the computer. Updated schedules are reported to a remotely located monitoring system. Some rooms may be bypassed by the regular schedule if desired. Power fail recovery and automatic atomic clock synchronization are also provided in the system.

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