Out-of-band commissioning in a luminaire or other radio frequency network using visible light communication

A lighting system, comprising:

• a plurality of uncommissioned luminaires located in a space, wherein a respective uncommissioned luminaire includes:
• a light source to emit visible light;
• a luminaire multi-band communication interface system including:
• a driver circuit coupled to the light source to modulate the emitted visible light from the light source for visible light communication (VLC) over a VLC communication band, and
• a luminaire radio frequency (RF) transceiver configured for short-range wireless communication over an RF commissioning network band;
• a luminaire memory including:
• (i) a respective VLC code, and (ii) a respective RF identifier;
• a luminaire processor coupled to the driver circuit, the luminaire RF transceiver, and the luminaire memory;
• and
• out-of-band (OOB) commissioning programming in the luminaire memory, wherein execution of the OOB commissioning programming by the luminaire processor configures the respective uncommissioned luminaire to implement functions, including functions to:
• control the light source, via the driver circuit, to transmit over the VLC communication band, the respective VLC code to the commissioning device;
• and
• transmit, via the luminaire RF transceiver over the RF commissioning network band, the respective RF identifier to a commissioning device;
• wherein the commissioning device includes:
• a commissioning device multi-band communication interface system including:
• a commissioning device visible light camera to receive VLC over the VLC communication band, and
• a commissioning device RF transceiver configured for short-range wireless communication over the RF commissioning network band;
• a commissioning device memory;
• a commissioning device processor coupled to the visible light camera, the commissioning device RF communication interface system, and the commissioning device memory;
• and
• commissioning device programming in the commissioning device memory, wherein execution of the commissioning device programming by the commissioning device processor configures the commissioning device to implement functions, including functions to:
• receive, via the commissioning device visible light camera, over the VLC communication band, the respective VLC code of the respective uncommissioned luminaire;
• receive, via the commissioning device RF transceiver, over the RF commissioning network band, the respective RF identifier of the respective uncommissioned luminaire;
• in response to receiving the respective VLC code and the respective RF identifier, determine whether the respective uncommissioned luminaire is in a candidate luminaire roster of candidate luminaires suitable for commissioning in the space;
• and
• based on the determination of whether respective uncommissioned luminaire is in the candidate luminaire roster, accept or reject commissioning of the respective uncommissioned luminaire in the space.