20. An environmental control method, comprising: communicating digital data through a local area network; receiving sensed environmental climate conditions from at least one climate condition sensor; detecting a movement of an individual in a vicinity of a movement sensor; perform a pattern recognition process with at least one automated processor to jointly classify a temporal pattern of the sensed environmental climate conditions and the detected movement of the individual; and communicating at least one signal in dependence on the pattern recognition process, the at least one signal being adapted to at least control an environmental control system.
20. An environmental control method, comprising: communicating digital data through a local area network; receiving sensed environmental climate conditions from at least one climate condition sensor; detecting a movement of an individual in a vicinity of a movement sensor; perform a pattern recognition process with at least one automated processor to jointly classify a temporal pattern of the sensed environmental climate conditions and the detected movement of the individual; and communicating at least one signal in dependence on the pattern recognition process, the at least one signal being adapted to at least control an environmental control system. 25. The environmental control method according to claim 20 , wherein the digital data comprises the sensed environmental climate conditions.