Phosphonium-based room temperature ionic liquids were prepared. In overview, various embodiments provide software, hardware and methodologies underlying an approach to the management of building services as discussed herein. The mechanism may be configured to provide for a single user inputrelease, without requiring powered actuators or the like. In addition, the LCS protocol enables the linecards to contain and manage the majority of the buffers in the system, and also to control the data drop policy within the system. This produces a tuned resistance that is closer to a desired resistance than is the actual resistance of the target resistor. The preprocessing module smoothes and cleans the data and allows for basic manipulation of the data.