TOUCHSTONE

gateway systems for remotely detecting and communicating information using computers and their peripherals, namely water, gas electric, propane, and fuel oil consumption data accumulation, storage and transmission, advisory signals from fuel tanks, load controllers, thermostat controllers, remote disconnect and reconnect devices for gas, water and electric meters, telephone local-loop detection devices, outage detectors, voltage monitors, harmonics monitors, irrigation controllers and monitors, meters, battery signaling devices, alarm signaling devices, smoke detector signaling devices, television remote signaling devices, water sensors, usage indicators and data transfer devices for vending machines, medical signaling, refrigeration detectors, electric motor detectors, security systems comprising gas detectors, carbon monoxide detectors, radon detectors, temperature sensors, for smoke detectors, fire detectors, burglar detectors and alarms, data communicators for security systems, medical alert devices,; automated meter reader apparatus, namely portable information storage units and parts therefor for use in recovering the information contained in the storage units and preparing customer bills, radio units, transponders, portable handheld programmer interrogators and mobile interrogation units; gas meters; electric meters; water meters;; electrical protection devices, namely electrical surge suppressors, voltage regulators, harmonics regulators; computer software associated with gateway systems for remotely detecting and communicating information by computers and their peripherals detecting and reading customer information, billing, payments and consumption of goods or services