Apparatus registration method, program for implementing the method and apparatus system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11601298-B2
Application number	US-201815989831-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 25, 2018
Priority date	May 31, 2017
Publication date	Mar 7, 2023
Grant date	Mar 7, 2023

Abstract

There are provided an apparatus registration method capable of efficiently associating specific information about apparatuses and arrangement information about the apparatuses stored in an operation terminal, a program for implementing the method, and an apparatus system. A method for registration of luminaires associates a plurality of luminaires with items of arrangement information about the luminaires stored in an operation terminal for operating the luminaires. The method for registration of luminaires is adapted to include the steps of: consecutively reading at least two or more of items of specific information about the luminaires included in the luminaires using a RF reader; storing items of arrangement information about the luminaires into the operation terminal; and consecutively associating the at least two or more items of specific information consecutively read by the RF reader with at least two or more items of arrangement information among the items of arrangement information about the luminaires.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An apparatus registration method for associating a plurality of luminaires with a plurality of pieces of arrangement information in layout information about the plurality of luminaires stored in an operation terminal operating the plurality of luminaires, the method comprising steps of:
storing the layout information including the plurality of pieces of arrangement information of the plurality of luminaires into the operation terminal;
consecutively reading, from the plurality of luminaires, a plurality of identifications using a reading apparatus, each of the plurality of identifications being included in a corresponding one of the plurality of luminaires; and
after consecutively reading the plurality of identifications from the plurality of luminaires, consecutively associating the plurality of identifications read by the reading apparatus with the plurality of pieces of arrangement information in the layout information, wherein:
a layout drawing in which a plurality of icons corresponding to the plurality of luminaries are arranged is displayed on an operation screen of the operation terminal,
the plurality of identifications read by the reading apparatus are sent to the operation terminal, and
after the plurality of identifications are sent to the operation terminal, the plurality of icons corresponding to the plurality of luminaries are selected in an order identical to an order of reading of the plurality of luminaries corresponding to the plurality of icons.

2. An apparatus registration method for associating a plurality of luminaires with a plurality of pieces of arrangement information in layout information about the plurality of luminaires stored in an operation terminal operating the plurality of luminaires, the method comprising steps of:
storing the layout information including the plurality of pieces of arrangement information of the plurality of luminaires into the operation terminal;
consecutively reading, from the plurality of luminaires, two or more identifications using a reading apparatus, each of the two or more identifications being included in a corresponding one of the plurality of luminaires; and
after consecutively reading the two or more identifications from the plurality of luminaires, associating the two or more identifications read by the reading apparatus with two or more pieces of arrangement information about a same group constituted by two or more luminaires included among the plurality of luminaires, wherein:
a layout drawing in which a plurality of icons corresponding to the plurality of luminaries are arranged is displayed on an operation screen of the operation terminal,
the two or more identifications constituted by a part of a plurality of identifications of the plurality of luminaires and read by the reading apparatus are sent to the operation terminal, each of the two or more identifications being included in a corresponding one of the two or more luminaires belonging to the same group constituted by a part of the plurality of luminaries, and
after the two or more identifications are sent, the two or more icons corresponding to the two or more luminaires belonging to the same group are selected.

3. The apparatus registration method according to claim 2 , comprising a step of associating the two or more identifications with the group and an attribute of the group.

4. The apparatus registration method according to claim 1 , comprising a step of, when the number of identifications read by the reading apparatus from the plurality of luminaires is larger than the number of the plurality of luminaires registered with the operation terminal, deleting one or more identifications among the read plurality of identifications,
wherein the one or more identifications to be deleted is one or more identifications that has been read fewer times than other identifications during a reading operation of the plurality of identifications of the plurality of luminaires.

5. The apparatus registration method according to claim 2 , comprising a step of, when the number of identifications read by the reading apparatus from the two or more luminaires is larger than the number of the two or more luminaires registered with the operation terminal, deleting one or more identifications among the read two or more identifications,
wherein the one or more identifications to be deleted is one or more identifications that has been read fewer times than other identifications during a reading operation of the two or more identifications of the two or more luminaires.

6. The apparatus registration method according to claim 1 , comprising a step of, when the number of identifications read by the reading apparatus from the plurality of luminaires is smaller than the number of the plurality of luminaires registered with the operation terminal, rereading the plurality of identifications information of each of the plurality of luminaries while confirming the number of times being read and inserting an identification that has not been read in a previous reading into the operation terminal.

7. The apparatus registration method according to claim 2 , comprising a step of, when the number of identifications read by the reading apparatus from the two or more luminaires is smaller than the number of the two or more luminaires registered with the operation terminal, rereading the two or more identifications of the two or more luminaries while confirming the number of times being read and inserting an identification that has not been read in a previous reading into the operation terminal.

8. The apparatus registration method according to claim 1 , wherein the reading apparatus comprises a supporting body provided with a stretchable structure.

9. The apparatus registration method according to claim 2 , wherein the reading apparatus comprises a supporting body provided with a stretchable structure.

10. The apparatus registration method according to claim 1 , wherein each of a plurality of pieces of apparatus information associated with the plurality of pieces of arrangement information in the layout information and including the plurality of identifications, includes information related to at least one of a piece of address information, a product number, a product name, a model number, a dimming curve, a color temperature/output range, or a color tone range.

11. The apparatus registration method according to claim 2 , wherein each of two or more pieces of apparatus information associated with the two or more pieces of arrangement information in the layout information and including the two or more identifications, includes information related to at least one of a piece of address information, a product number, a product name, a model number, a dimming curve, a color temperature/output range, or a color tone range.

12. The apparatus registration method according to claim 10 , wherein the operation terminal acquires the information related to at least one from a server on the Internet.

13. The apparatus registration method according to claim 11 , wherein the operation terminal acquires the information related to at least one from a server on the Internet.

14. The apparatus registration method according to claim 1 , wherein
the operation terminal comprises a selection portion selecting, for each of the plurality of luminaires, a color temperature and an output for light radiated from a given luminaire.

15. The apparatus registration method according to claim 2 , wherein
the operation terminal comprises a selection portion selecting a color temperature and an output for same light radiated from the tw

Assignees

• Panasonic Ip Man Co Ltd

Inventors

• Kishimoto Akihiro
• Kido Shojiro

Classifications

• H04L41/0883

  Semiautomatic configuration, e.g. proposals from system · CPC title

• H04L12/2807 Primary

  Exchanging configuration information on appliance services in a home automation network (arrangements for maintenance or administration involving network analysis for automatically determining the actual topology of a network H04L41/12; hardware or software tools for network management using graphical user interfaces H04L41/22; address allocation H04L61/50) · CPC title

• H04L2012/2841

  Wireless · CPC title

• H04L41/22

  comprising specially adapted graphical user interfaces [GUI] · CPC title

• H04L41/0889

  Techniques to speed-up the configuration process · CPC title