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A driving device forming part of a controller is connected in a circuit and supplies power to a number of stations in the circuit. Each station has a microcomputer and at least one sensor capable of detecting a significant event of interest. Each microcomputer monitors its adjacent circuit, stores i

A driving device forming part of a controller is connected in a circuit and supplies power to a number of stations in the circuit. Each station has a microcomputer and at least one sensor capable of detecting a significant event of interest. Each microcomputer monitors its adjacent circuit, stores information derived from any sensor in its station and periodically informs the controller. The stations each have at least one circuit breaker controlled by its microcomputer for isolating that station from an adjacent station. The controller interrogates all the stations to identify any station at which an event has occurred and receives, stores, and analyzes data from the microcomputers and sends instructions thereto.

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An information transmission system comprising a plurality of sensors for the conversion of respective physical parameters to respective electrical signals, a circuit connected to a driving device which supplies power via said circuit to energize the sensors, said circuit incorporating a plurality of

An information transmission system comprising a plurality of sensors for the conversion of respective physical parameters to respective electrical signals, a circuit connected to a driving device which supplies power via said circuit to energize the sensors, said circuit incorporating a plurality of circuit breakers connected in series in said circuit between respective parts of said circuit, each said circuit breaker acting to isolate at least one respective one of said parts of said circuit from an adjacent one of said parts, a plurality of stations connected in parallel with one another to said circuit, so that each said station is adjacent at least one other one of said stations along said circuit, each said station incorporating a microcomputer, at least one of said circuit breakers and at least one of said sensors, each said microcomputer periodically monitoring at least one respective one of said parts of said circuit adjacent its respective station, and monitoring, interpreting and storing information derived from said at least one sensor incorporated in that station, for determining from that information if an event has been detected by said at least one sensor at that station, said microcomputer at each said station controlling each said circuit breaker therein, for creating at least one open circuit between respective adjacent ones of said parts of the circuit operationally, to isolate that station from at least one adjacent one of said stations, respectively, and a controller incorporating said driving device being arranged to interrogate all of said stations to identify any one thereof at which one of said events has occurred, to analyze data relating to each such event, and to generate and send instructing signals to said microcomputer of each respective station concerning the respective sensed event.