Discovery and configuration of IoT devices
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsPaolo Ottaviano, Andrea Tortosa, Maximiliano Cammisa, Antonio Di Cocco
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Abstract
A method for associating an Internet-of-Things (IoT) device with a wireless network, a method for discovering and logically grouping smart light bulbs, and a smart light bulb. One embodiment may comprise automatically starting a counter on an IoT device in response to initially receiving power from a power supply loop to which the IoT device is connected, and by the IoT device, determining whether to perform a pairing operation for associating the IoT device with a wireless network based at least in part on a state of the counter in the IoT device.
Claims8
A method for discovering and logically grouping smart light bulbs, the method comprising:
- connecting a plurality of smart light bulbs to a common power loop having a power switch, wherein each of the plurality of smart light bulbs includes a LED driver circuit that selectably controls power to a LED, the LED driver circuit comprising:
- a timer that initiates upon closure of the power switch;
- a wireless adapter adapted to receive a logical group identifier;
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- a writeable memory that automatically accepts or rejects the logical group identifier based on a state of the timer;
- promoting one of the plurality of smart light bulbs to leader using a controller;
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- closing the power switch to the plurality of smart light bulbs to automatically initiate their respective timers.
A smart light bulb, comprising:
- a LED;
- and
- a LED driver circuit that selectably controls power to the LED, the LED driver circuit comprising:
- a timer that automatically initiates upon receipt of power to the LED driver circuit from an external power supply loop;
- a wireless adapter adapted to receive a logical group identifier directly from another smart light bulb;
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- a writeable memory that automatically accepts or rejects the logical group identifier based on a state of the timer.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.