The SmartSwitch® Engineering Development Kits feature a 1M or 16M On-Board NOR flash memory to store images, or attributes. There are two ports on the development kit, one USB for serial communication, and an auxiliary port with 7 I/O pins for the Microcontroller to control or detect other applications. The kits can be utilized in standalone mode or in real time operation. The SmartSwitch® product reports via USB the switch closures, releases, timer expirations, and addresses of the images displayed. SmartSwitch® products can be programmed to change the displayed images based on a switch actuation and user defined timers for standalone operation.