A lighting device for generating a white mixed light having controllable spectral characteristics is provided. The lighting device comprises a number of white light sources for each making a contribution to the white mixed light by generating a white light with a respective spectral expression in each case that can be quantitatively characterized, so that the white lights generated by the white light sources can form corner points of a target range for the resulting mixed light in a spectral light parameter space. The lighting device further comprises control electronics for controlling proportional contributions of the white light sources so that the position corresponding to the resulting mixed white light can be varied within the target area spanned on the corner points in the spectral light parameter space.

A system and method for visually automated interface integration that includes collecting image data; detecting a device interface source in the image data; processing the image data associated with the device interface source into an extracted interface representation; and exposing at least one access interface to the extracted interface representation.

A system and method for a remote state following device that includes an electronic device with a controllable operating state; an imaging device; and control system that when targeted at a control interface interprets a visual state from the control interface, and modifies the operating state in coordination with the visual state.

A user terminal and a driving method thereof, a control device and a driving method thereof, and a control system of a controlled device are provided. The user terminal includes: a communication interface configured to communicate with a plurality of controlled devices which are operated based on individually set setting values; a user interface configured to receive an adjustment value for collectively controlling the plurality of controlled devices as a group; and a controller configured to individually adjust each of the setting values based on a ratio which relates to the received adjustment value, and to control the plurality of controlled devices based on the adjusted setting values.

A localization system comprising a plurality of wireless reference nodes for detecting a location of a mobile device within an environment. Each node transmits localization beacon signals to be detected by the mobile device, and/or listens for localization beacon signals from the mobile device. Further, the system also provides or contributes to providing another utility into the environment (e.g. each node being a luminaire); and transmits and/or listens for control-related signals, other than localization beacon signals, related to controlling the provision of said utility, the control related signals being communicated on a same or overlapping frequency band as the localization beacon signals, one or more controllers are configured to control the transmission of and/or listening for the control-related signals to be time-multiplexed into different time slots than the transmission and/or listening for the localization beacon signals, between the time-slots of the control-related signals.

A load control system may include control devices for controlling power provided to an electrical load. The control devices may include a control-source device and a control-target device. The control-target device may control the power provided to the electrical load based on digital messages received from the control-source device. The control devices may include a load control discovery device capable of sending discovery messages configured to discover control devices within a location. The discovered control devices may be organized by signal strength and may be provided to a network device to enable association of the discovered control devices within a location. The discovery messages may be transmitted within an established discovery range. The discovery range may be adjusted to discover different control devices. Different control devices may be identified as the load control discovery device for discovering different control devices.

A method (200, 300) of controlling a luminaire (50) adapted to generate a light output (60) in a controllable direction with a user interface device (10) is disclosed. The method comprises determining (207) a relative orientation of the user interface device to the luminaire; receiving (219) a light output positioning instruction on a user interface (20) of the user interface device, said light output positioning instruction including directional information for the positioning of the light output in a specified location; converting (221) the light output positioning instruction by transforming the directional information based on the determined relative orientation; and transmitting (223) the converted light output positioning instruction to the luminaire. A computer program product, user interface device and lighting system employing this method are also disclosed.

A method of controlling lighting devices (4) via input from a mobile device (1), involving the operations of: upon movement of the mobile device, while being wirelessly connected with an influencing lighting device, obtaining movement direction data generated by the mobile device (1); and providing the movement direction data for determining a next lighting device to be controlled.

A method of controlling a lighting system, the method comprising: receiving a user input from a user; controlling a first plurality of luminaires in a first environment to render a lighting scene in response to the received user input; storing at least one parameter of the lighting scene in electronic storage; detecting a presence of the user in a second environment and in response thereto: determining at least one property of the second environment and/or the user in the second environment; determining whether the determined property meets one or more predetermined criteria; and using the stored parameter to control a second plurality of luminaires in the second environment to render a version of the lighting scene on condition that the one or more predetermined criteria are determined to be met; wherein the at least one property comprises a duration of the presence of the user in the second environment, and the one or more predetermined criteria comprise a criterion of the duration of the presence of the user in the second environment exceeding a threshold duration.

Systems and methods for automatic targeted illumination based on aggregate illumination from multiple light sources are disclosed. In embodiments, a method includes: determining, by a computing device, a localized area of a defined physical location based on received location information; determining, by the computing device, a desired level of brightness for the localized area; calculating, by the computing device, an illumination level at the localized area based on current illumination levels of lighting devices within the defined physical location and locations of the lighting devices within the defined physical location; generating, by the computing device, instructions to effect a change in one or more of the lighting devices, wherein the change in the one or more lighting devices results in the desired level of brightness for the localized area; and sending, by the computing device, the instructions to at least one controller of the one or more lighting devices.