Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Configuring communications for a load control system
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Application No.: US15406102Application Date: 2017-01-13
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Publication No.: US10854070B2Publication Date: 2020-12-01
- Inventor: John H. Bull , Jordan H. Crafts , James P. Steiner
- Applicant: Lutron Technology Company LLC
- Applicant Address: US PA Coopersburg
- Assignee: Lutron Technology Company LLC
- Current Assignee: Lutron Technology Company LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US PA Coopersburg
- Agent Glen Farbanish; Philip Smith; Amy Yanek
- Main IPC: H02J13/00
- IPC: H02J13/00 ; G08C17/02

Abstract:
A load control system may include multiple control devices that may send load control messages to load control devices for controlling an amount of power provided electrical loads. To prevent collision of the load control messages, the load control messages may be transmitted using different wireless communication channels. Each wireless communication channel may be assigned to a load control group that may include control devices and load control devices capable of communicating with one another on the assigned channel. A control device may send load control messages to a load control device within a transmission frame allocated for transmitting load control messages. The transmission frame may include equal sub-frames and load control messages may be sent at a random time within each sub-frame. Control devices may detect a status event within a sampling interval to offset transmissions from multiple control devices based on detection of the same event.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170133878A1 CONFIGURING COMMUNICATIONS FOR A LOAD CONTROL SYSTEM Public/Granted day:2017-05-11
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