Open Innovation Projects

I have a design that is already at a prototype stage. I need help as the idea is to provide a system to provide modern residential lightging system. The whole industry is choked with IP, protocols and licensing agreements.

I have a design to provide a system that scales from residential to large commercial concerns. It provides a series of common building block components to enable a low cost net work via a protocol specifically designed for lighting control. Its main design goal is to provide cheap inteligent control systems with energy savings in excess of 80%.

I need help as my background is with embedded and network control protocols. Firstly chosing a GPL and protection or at least the ability to stop the design being bastardised for comercial gain needs to be discussed.

What I mean if the standard is released with a plethora of non compatible protocol modifictions then the design would be dead in the water.

Is there a open GPL that allows cottage industries to manufacture limited(generous) qty of the design but would require low bulk manufacturing licences. I am open to any sugestions.

In terms of communication I have a hybrid powerline that is unique in implementation as it cost requirements use low-end Lin_Bus microcontrollers to provide a hireachy of simple intelligence that scales to the future of modern intelligent lighting control.