US 10,098,074 B2 · Commissioning and controlling load control devices

Abstract

A load control system may include control devices capable of being associated with each other at one or more locations for performing load control. Control devices may include control-source devices and/or control-target devices. A location beacon may be discovered and a unique identifier in the location beacon may be associated with a unique identifier of one or more control devices. Upon subsequent discovery of the location beacon, the associated load control devices may be controlled. The beacons may be communicated via radio frequency signals, visible light communication, and/or audio signals. The visible light communication may be used to communicate other types of information to devices in the load control system. The visible light communication may be used to identify link addresses for communicating with load control devices, load control instructions, load control configuration instructions, network communication information, and/or the like. The information in the beacons may be used to commission and/or control the load control system.

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Dependent claims

A load control system comprising:

a plurality of control devices including at least one load control device that is configured to control an amount of power provided to an electrical load, wherein each control device comprises a beacon transmitting circuit configured to transmit a respective control device beacon that comprises an identifier associated with the control device;
and
a network device configured to:
discover the respective control device beacon for each control device of the plurality of control devices;
identify a signal strength at which the respective control device beacon is received for each control device of the plurality of control devices;
display the plurality of control devices in a list of control devices that is sorted according to the corresponding signal strength of each control device beacon;
receive indications of selections of at least two control devices in the list of control devices;
and
associate the identifiers of the selected at least two control devices to enable control of the at least two load control devices upon subsequent reception of a command by one of the at least two control devices.

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A load control system comprising:

a plurality of control devices including at least one load control device that is configured to control an amount of power provided to an electrical load, wherein each control device comprises a beacon transmitting circuit configured to transmit a respective control device beacon that comprises an identifier associated with the control device;
and
a network device configured to:
discover the respective control device beacon for each control device of the plurality of control devices;
identify other control devices that have been previously selected by the network device;
display each control device of the plurality of control devices in which the respective control device beacon was discovered;
display the identified other control devices that have been previously selected by the network device;
receive an indication of a selection of at least one of the displayed each control device of the plurality of control devices in which the respective control device beacon was discovered and receive an indication of a selection of at least one of the displayed identified other control devices that have been previously selected by the network device;
associate the identifier of the selected at least one of the displayed each control device of the plurality of control devices in which the respective control device beacon was discovered with the identifier of the at least one of the displayed other control devices that have been previously selected by the network device.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

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