H05B47/21

Wireless lighting control

A modular wireless lighting control device includes a wireless interface device that includes a wireless transceiver, a first controller, and a power supply. The wireless transceiver is in electrical communication with the first controller. The wireless interface device receives lighting control instructions wirelessly via the wireless transceiver. The modular wireless lighting control device further includes a lighting control device in electrical communication with the wireless communication device. The lighting control device includes a second controller and control interface circuitry. The control interface circuitry is compatible with a light fixture.

SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS

Disclosed are systems and methods for adjusting environmental conditions based on automatically and manually generated requests. A commissioned unit comprising at least one IP luminaire (140, 150), transmits a signal comprising one or more identification codes. The signal may be, for example, a coded light signal. An environment control device (160) receives the signal, detects user input indicating one or more preferred environmental conditions, and transmits an environment control request comprising the one or more preferred environmental conditions. An environment manager module (110) receives the environment control request, generates an environment control command using the control request, and transmits the environment control command to one or more commissioned units to alter environmental conditions in a space in accordance with the user input.

SIGNALING LAMP MONITOR

A signaling lamp monitor is configured to add a communication function to a signaling lamp such as a stack signaling lamp easily and at a low cost. The signaling lamp monitor includes a detector that detects light emitted from the signaling lamp, a controller that generates a detection signal at least based on the detection, and a transmitter that transmits the detection signal by wireless communication. The transmitter is provided with an antenna disposed above the detector.

Intelligent lighting control system zone identification apparatuses, systems, and methods
10667365 · 2020-05-26 · ·

The present disclosure provides an intelligent lighting control system. A first switch control circuit of a first lighting control module of a plurality of lighting control modules is actuated. The actuation is detected at each lighting control module in the plurality of lighting control modules. The light sensor in each lighting control module are polled by the respective processor in each lighting control module, to detect a change in a light level. The change in the light level detected by the respective lighting control module is transmitting, from each lighting control module. The lighting control modules that detected the change in the light level are catalogued into a 1st zone of one or more zones.

METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR INFORMATION MANAGEMENT AND CONTROL OF OUTDOOR LIGHTING NETWORKS

The invention provides a light management information system for an outdoor lighting network system, having a plurality of outdoor light units each including at least one sensor type, where each of the light units communicates with at least one other light unit, at least one user input/output device in communication with at one or more of said outdoor light units, a central management system in communication with light units, said central management system sends control commands and/or information to one or more of said outdoor light units, in response to received outdoor light unit status/sensor information from one or more of said outdoor light units or received user information requests from said user input/output device, a resource server in communication with said central management system, wherein the central management system uses the light unit status/sensor information and resources from the resource server to provide information to the user input/output device and/or reconfigure one or more of the lights units.

METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE HAVING SMART IDENTIFICATION FUNCTION
20200077474 · 2020-03-05 ·

Disclosed are a method and system for controlling an electronic device, having a smart identification function, and the method includes: outputting, by a master device, an access signal to an electronic device; receiving, by the electronic device, the access signal, and outputting, by the electronic device, a corresponding action signal according to the access signal; detecting, by the master device, the action signal which is outputted by the electronic device, and identifying, by the master device, sequence information and/or position information of the electronic device according to the action signal.

LIGHTING CONTROLLER AND LIGHTING CONTROL METHOD
20200060008 · 2020-02-20 ·

The time required for the state monitoring can be shortened when there is a lighting fixture which has been turned off. A lighting controller for controlling lighting fixtures includes: a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory. The processor identifies a first lighting fixture connected to a first power supply system, identifies a second lighting fixture connected to a second power supply system, and gives a lower priority to control of the second lighting fixture than to control of the first lighting fixture, if the processor receives a response to an interrogation, which is sent from the processor to the first lighting fixture, from the first lighting fixture within a predetermined period of time, and does not receive a response to an interrogation, which is sent from the processor to the second lighting fixture, from the second lighting fixture within the predetermined period of time.

Runway illumination light inspection apparatus and runway illumination light inspection method
10521899 · 2019-12-31 · ·

The runway illumination light inspection apparatus includes: an illumination light detection unit; an image capturing unit; and a determination unit. The illumination light detection unit detects an illumination light embedded in a runway the image capturing unit captures, when the illumination light detection unit has detected the illumination light, an image of the illumination light, and the determination unit determines whether or not the illumination light is abnormal, based on the captured image of the illumination light.

Data acquisition methods and apparatus for a network connected LED driver
11963272 · 2024-04-16 ·

A lighting system including monitoring of input power and output power parameters to a set of lighting loads to detect power faults and/or anomalies. The set of sensing circuits include primary side and secondary side sensing circuits that communicate with a set of monitoring circuits to process the information supplied by the sensing circuits. If a fault and/or anomaly is sensed or detected, a signal is transmitted to provide an alert.

Ultraviolet lamp output modulation
11963271 · 2024-04-16 · ·

An embodiment provides method for controlling lamp output within an array of lamps, including: receiving sensor data corresponding to one of a plurality of lamps within the array, wherein the sensor data comprises an irradiance value from at least one of: within a lamp sleeve and an irradiance value from outside a lamp sleeve; identifying, based the sensor data, a change in an output of the one of the plurality of lamps; sharing the sensor data with other of the plurality of lamps within the array; and adjusting, in response to the sharing, an output of at least one of the other of the plurality of lamps within the array, thereby compensating for the change in the output of one of the plurality of lamps. Other aspects are described and claimed.