Systems and methods for controlling outdoor luminaire wireless network using smart appliance

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10098212-B2
Application number	US-201815895439-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 13, 2018
Priority date	Feb 14, 2017
Publication date	Oct 9, 2018
Grant date	Oct 9, 2018

Abstract

Systems and methods which utilize luminaires that include wireless communication capabilities that allow the luminaires to be controlled by a wireless-enabled mobile system disposed proximate the luminaires. Control of a network of wireless-enabled luminaires is provided via a single mobile system utilizing wireless communication through at least one gateway luminaire without requiring connection between the luminaires and a central management system (CMS). Information sent to or collected from the luminaires through the mobile system may be transferred via a mobile network interface from or to a CMS. The luminaires may use their wireless communication ability to obtain data from nearby wireless sensors, which data may be collected by the mobile system from luminaires in the network of luminaires when the mobile system is positioned proximate at least one of the luminaires. The sensor data and/or other data may be uploaded to the central management system in a non-real-time period.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An illumination system, comprising:
a plurality of terminal luminaires, each of the terminal luminaires comprising:
at least one terminal luminaire processor;
at least one light source operatively coupled to the at least one terminal luminaire processor;
a terminal luminaire transceiver operatively coupled to the at least one terminal luminaire processor, in operation the terminal luminaire transceiver communicates via a first communications protocol; and
at least one nontransitory processor-readable storage medium operatively coupled to the at least one terminal luminaire processor and storing at least one of data or instructions;

a gateway luminaire comprising:
at least one gateway luminaire processor;
at least one light source operatively coupled to the at least one gateway luminaire processor;
a first gateway luminaire transceiver operatively coupled to the at least one gateway luminaire processor, in operation the first gateway luminaire transceiver communicates via the first communications protocol;
a second gateway luminaire transceiver operatively coupled to the at least one gateway luminaire processor, in operation the second gateway luminaire transceiver communicates via a second communications protocol, the second communications protocol different from the first communications protocol; and
at least one nontransitory processor-readable storage medium operatively coupled to the at least one gateway luminaire processor and storing at least one of data or instructions which, when executed by the at least one gateway luminaire processor, cause the at least one gateway luminaire processor to:
receive, via the second gateway luminaire transceiver, at least one of instructions or data from at least one mobile system; and
send, via the first gateway luminaire transceiver, the received at least one of instructions or data to at least one of the plurality of terminal luminaires.

2. The illumination system of claim 1 wherein at least some of the plurality of terminal luminaires communicate with other of the plurality of terminal luminaires using the first communications protocol via respective terminal luminaire transceivers.

3. The illumination system of claim 1 wherein each of the plurality of terminal luminaires communicates with at least one gateway luminaire using the first communications protocol via respective terminal luminaire transceivers.

4. The illumination system of claim 1 wherein the first and second communication protocols are wireless communications protocols, the first and second communications protocols have first and second ranges, respectively, and the first range is greater than the second range.

5. The illumination system of claim 1 wherein the at least one gateway luminaire processor:
receives, via the second gateway luminaire transceiver, at least one of commissioning data, decommissioning data, dimming level data, light schedule data, firmware update data or operational parameter data from the at least one mobile system.

6. The illumination system of claim 1 wherein the at least one gateway luminaire processor:
receives, via the first gateway luminaire transceiver, at least one of instructions or data from at least one of the plurality of terminal luminaires; and
sends, via the second gateway luminaire transceiver, the received at least one of instructions or data to the at least one mobile system.

7. The illumination system of claim 1 , further comprising:
a mobile system comprising:
at least one mobile system processor;
a first mobile system transceiver operatively coupled to the at least one mobile system processor, in operation the first mobile system transceiver communicates via the second communications protocol; and
at least one nontransitory processor-readable storage medium operatively coupled to the at least one mobile system processor and storing at least one of data or instructions which, when executed by the at least one mobile system processor, cause the at least one mobile system processor to:
send, via the first mobile system transceiver, at least one of instructions or data to the gateway luminaire; or
receive, via the first mobile system transceiver, at least one of instructions or data from the gateway luminaire.

8. The illumination system of claim 7 wherein the mobile system comprises:
a second mobile system transceiver operatively coupled to the at least one mobile system processor, wherein the at least one mobile system processor:
sends, via the second mobile system transceiver, at least one of instructions or data to at least one remote processor-based device; or
receives, via the second mobile system transceiver, at least one of instructions or data from the remote processor-based device.

9. The illumination system of claim 8 wherein the second mobile system transceiver communicates via the first communications protocol.

10. The illumination system of claim 8 wherein the second mobile system transceiver communicates via a third communications protocol, the third communications protocol different from the first and second communications protocols.

11. The illumination system of claim 10 wherein the third communications protocol comprises a mobile telecommunications protocol.

12. The illumination system of claim 1 wherein the at least one terminal luminaire processor:
receives, via the terminal luminaire transceiver, sensor data from at least one sensor; and
sends, via the terminal luminaire transceiver, the received sensor data to the gateway luminaire.

13. The illumination system of claim 12 wherein the at least one terminal luminaire processor:
stores the sensor data temporarily in the nontransitory processor-readable storage medium of the terminal luminaire.

14. The illumination system of claim 12 wherein the at least one sensor comprises at least one of a motion sensor, a temperature sensor, a humidity sensor, a carbon monoxide sensor, a noise sensor, or a gunshot detection sensor.

15. The illumination system of claim 14 , further comprising:
a data storage device, comprising:
at least one data storage device processor;
a data storage device transceiver operatively coupled to the at least one data storage device processor; and
at least one data storage device nontransitory processor-readable storage medium operatively coupled to the at least one data storage device processor and storing at least one of data or instructions which, when executed by the at least one data storage device processor, cause the at least one data storage device processor to:
receive, via the data storage device transceiver, sensor; and
store the received sensor data in the at least one data storage device nontransitory processor-readable storage medium.

16. The illumination system of claim 1 wherein the at least one gateway luminaire processor:
receives, via the first gateway luminaire transceiver, sensor data from at least one of the terminal luminaires; and
sends, via the second gateway luminaire transceiver, the received sensor data to the at least one mobile system.

17. The illumination system of claim 16 wherein the at least one sensor comprises at least one of a motion sensor, a temperature sensor, a humidity sensor, a carbon monoxide sensor, a noise sensor, or a gunshot detection sensor.

18. A method of operating an illumination system, the illumination system comprising a plurality of terminal luminaires each comprising a terminal luminaire transceiver which communicates via a first communications protocol and a gateway l

Assignees

• Express Imaging Systems Llc

Inventors

• Vendetti Donald Arthur
• Reed William G

Classifications

• H04W72/53

  based on regulatory allocation policies · CPC title

• H04W4/38 Primary

  for collecting sensor information · CPC title

• H04W64/003

  locating network equipment · CPC title

• H05B47/11

  by determining the brightness or colour temperature of ambient light · CPC title

• H04W72/0446

  Resources in time domain, e.g. slots or frames · CPC title