DEMAND RESPONSE FOR NETWORKED DISTRIBUTED LIGHTING SYSTEMS

    公开(公告)号:US20170127496A1

    公开(公告)日:2017-05-04

    申请号:US15318128

    申请日:2015-06-08

    CPC classification number: H05B37/0245 H05B37/0218 H05B37/0227 Y02B20/46

    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for managing light settings of a luminaire communicatively connected to a local coordinator. The method, performed by the luminaire, includes steps of providing to the local coordinator a control state of the luminaire (e.g. occupancy status), receiving from the local coordinator a power reduction factor for the luminaire, the factor being based on the control state of the luminaire and on control states provided to the local coordinator by one or more additional luminaires, determining new illuminance settings for the luminaire by applying the received factor to current illuminance settings, measuring luminance within a sensing region of a light sensor of the luminaire while one or more light sources of the luminaire emit light according to one or more operating parameters, and, based on the measured luminance, adjusting the operating parameters to achieve the new illuminance settings.

    LOCALIZATION OF A MOBILE DEVICE
    12.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20200228924A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-07-16

    申请号:US15757762

    申请日:2016-09-19

    Abstract: A method comprising: obtaining a respective measurement of a beacon signal transmitted wirelessly between the mobile device and each of a plurality of the reference nodes; for each of a plurality of different reference locations within the environment, distinct from the reference nodes, obtaining a corresponding measurement of a test signal previously transmitted or modelled to have been transmitted wirelessly between the reference location and each of the plurality of reference nodes; for each of the reference locations, determining for each of said plurality of beacon nodes a difference between the respective measurement of the beacon signal and the measurement of the test signal; for each of the reference locations, determining a value of a measure of statistical spread in these differences; and estimating the location of the mobile device in dependence on a comparison of the values of the measure of statistical spread determined for the different reference locations.

    MONITORING SYSTEM FOR MONITORING ELECTRICAL DEVICES

    公开(公告)号:US20190124744A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-04-25

    申请号:US16090938

    申请日:2017-03-30

    Abstract: The invention relates to a monitoring system (13) for monitoring electrical devices (A, B, C, D, K) like luminaires. An assignments providing unit (7) provides assignments between the electrical devices and behavior classes defining expected behaviors, wherein a deviation determination unit (9) determines a deviation a) between a monitored behavior of an electrical device assigned to a behavior class and an expected behavior defined by a behavior class and/or b) between a monitored behavior of an electrical device and a monitored behavior of another electrical device, wherein an output unit (10) provides an output depending on the determined deviation. The deviation can be indicative of a commissioning error, i.e., for instance, of an assignment of an electrical device to a wrong room within a building. The monitoring system can therefore allow for an automatic detection of commissioning errors in a building which may have thousands of electrical devices.

    TIME-MULTIPLEX TRANSMISSION OF LOCALISATION BEACON SIGNALS AND CONTROL-RELATED SIGNALS

    公开(公告)号:US20180249306A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-08-30

    申请号:US15553312

    申请日:2016-02-11

    Abstract: 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.

    MACHINE LEARNING METHOD FOR OPTIMIZING SENSOR QUANTIZATION BOUNDARIES

    公开(公告)号:US20180232637A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-08-16

    申请号:US15890912

    申请日:2018-02-07

    CPC classification number: G06N3/08 G06N3/0481 G06N3/084

    Abstract: A computer-implemented method of optimizing non-uniform quantization boundaries for a quantization unit of a sensor is provided. The method comprises: obtaining a digital representation of a model (120) for predicting the target metric (124) from an unquantized sensor signal (122), the model being defined by at least the quantization boundaries, the model comprising: a first layer (130) of multiple continuous quantization functions (142, 144, 146; ƒ1, . . . , ƒQ), the quantization functions approximating block functions on quantization intervals defined by the quantization boundaries and receiving as input an unquantized sensor signal, and a second layer (132) comprising a function taking as input the output of the multiple continuous quantization functions and generating as output a prediction of the target metric, and training (530) the model using the training data by iteratively updating (126) the quantization boundaries.

    ENERGY MEASUREMENT FOR A LIGHTING SYSTEM
    17.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20180139809A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-05-17

    申请号:US15813655

    申请日:2017-11-15

    CPC classification number: H05B33/089 H05B33/0851 H05B37/0227 H05B37/0245

    Abstract: An energy measurement system for a lighting system is disclosed. The lighting system may comprise multiple lighting units arranged in multiple lighting zones, multiple sensors associated with the lighting zones, and an energy measurement device. The lighting system may be arranged to switch on a lighting zone depending on at least a sensor associated with the lighting zone.Power-on energy uses of the multiple lighting zones associated with the multiple sensors is obtained from sensor data from the multiple sensors, and energy use data from the energy measurement device, the energy use data indicating an aggregated energy use of the multiple lighting zones at different times, and a processor circuit.

    CALIBRATION OF LIGHT SENSORS
    18.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20180054873A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-02-22

    申请号:US15556858

    申请日:2016-03-02

    Abstract: A calibration method comprising, for each of one or more light sensors: (a) under influence of one or more substantially non-zero illumination levels in the target environment, using the light sensor to measure the sensed light level corresponding to each of these one or more illumination levels; (b) receiving a template light level value corresponding to each of the one or more illumination levels, representing the light level at a target location in the target environment substantially removed in space from the location of the light sensor, each of the one or more template light level values being assumed for the environment rather than measured by a light meter; and (c) determining a relationship between the sensed light level and the light level experienced at the target location, based on an evaluation of the one or more sensed levels relative to the one or more template light level values.

    CONTROLLING LOCALIZATION
    19.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20190069132A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-02-28

    申请号:US16176735

    申请日:2018-10-31

    Abstract: In one aspect, a mobile device is located using a signal sent out from the mobile device to nodes of a location network, and the mobile device also sends a tracking preference associated with the signal. This specifies whether a location network is permitted to use the signal to determine the mobile's location, and/or whether a provider of a location related service associated with a location network is permitted to make use of the location. In embodiments the preference may be tagged with the ID of a particular provider. In another aspect, the localization is based on measurements taken by a mobile terminal of signals sent from the nodes, and the nodes also send out an identifier with the signal identifying a provider of a location related service associated with the network. The mobile device can then use this identifier to determine who to share its measurements or location with.

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