Commissioning, decommissioning and testing of a smart sensor-driven LED lighting system without gateway

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10334684-B2
Application number	US-201815883419-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 30, 2018
Priority date	Feb 3, 2017
Publication date	Jun 25, 2019
Grant date	Jun 25, 2019

Abstract

The lighting system enables the communication and thereby the creation and/or expansion of a network between a sensor and any number of light sources. The network preferably enables the monitoring and controlling of the light sources by the sensor via a wireless communication. The light source can be an LED lamp, an LED lamp tube, an LED retrofit lamp, preferably a retrofit T8 tube, a fluorescent lamp and/or a halogen lamp. The light source can be a ceiling lamp, a wall lamp, a bottom illumination, direct or indirect lighting, a signal lamp and/or a decorative lighting. The sensor is responsible for creating and/or expanding a wireless network between the sensor and the at least one light source.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A lighting system comprising:
at least one light source;
a sensor, wherein the sensor:
is adapted for creating and/or expanding a wireless network between the sensor and the at least one light source;
is adapted to operate in at least one of the following operating modes including a sensing mode, a pairing mode, a testing mode, and a network destruction mode; and
comprises a commissioning button for switching between operating modes, in particular between the sensing mode and the pairing mode and/or between the sensing mode and the testing mode and/or between the sensing mode and the network destruction mode; and

a wireless control module for establishing the creation and/or expansion of the wireless network.

2. The lighting system according to claim 1 , wherein the at least one light source of the wireless network is exclusively connected to the sensor.

3. The lighting system according to claim 1 , wherein the wireless network is based on a Bluetooth technology, Thread, Wi-Fi, ZigBee, and/or a low-power wireless technology.

4. The lighting system according to claim 1 , wherein the sensor comprises at least one sensor transducer which is a movement and/or a presence and/or a daylight transducer.

5. The lighting system according to claim 1 , wherein the at least one light source comprises a second wireless control module, wherein the second wireless control module of the at least one light source is adapted for communicating with the wireless control module of the sensor.

6. The lighting system according to claim 5 , wherein the at least one light source further comprises a second commissioning button, wherein the second commissioning button is adapted to pair the at least one light source to the wireless network and/or reset the wireless network and/or remove the at least one light source from the wireless network.

Assignees

• Ledvance Gmbh

Inventors

• Polychronakis Orestis

Classifications

• F21K9/272

  Details of end parts, i.e. the parts that connect the light source to a fitting; Arrangement of components within end parts (F21K9/278 takes precedence) · CPC title

• F21Y2103/10

  comprising a linear array of point-like light-generating elements · CPC title

• H05B45/10 Primary

  Controlling the intensity of the light · CPC title

• F21K9/278

  Arrangement or mounting of circuit elements integrated in the light source · CPC title

• H05B47/19

  via wireless transmission · CPC title