US 2016/0081162 A1Published application

Luminaire with ambient sensing and autonomous control capabilities

AssigneeExpress Imaging Systems, LLC

InventorWilliam G. Reed

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Abstract

A number of luminaires can be communicably coupled and networked. Some or all of the luminaires may be equipped with a number of sensors including motion sensors. Upon detecting motion of an object in the vicinity of a luminaire, the luminaire can increase the luminous output of the lighting subsystem in the luminaire and communicate a targeted or broadcast output signal to some or all of the remaining luminaires in the network. The output signal may variously contain data indicative of one or more parameters related to motion of the object (direction of travel, velocity, etc.) or one or more parameters related to the increased luminous output of the luminaire. Responsive to the receipt of an output signal generated by another luminaire, the luminaire may autonomously adjust the luminous output of the lighting subsystems responsive to an event detected by the other luminaire.

Claims9

Dependent claims

An illumination system, comprising:

a luminaire including at least one light source;
a controller to provide a signal output that autonomously adjusts a luminous output level of the at least one light source, the controller including at least one processor;
a sensor communicably coupled to the controller to provide a signal that includes information indicative of an occurrence or a lack of occurrence of a defined event;
at least one set of machine executable instructions that when executed by the at least one processor cause the at least one processor to:
determine whether the sensor is in at least one of:
an operational mode or a failure mode;
responsive to a determination that the sensor is in the failure mode, provide the signal output based at least in part on at least one value determined by the processor until a subsequent determination by the processor that the sensor is in the operational mode;
and
responsive to a determination that the sensor is in the operational mode, provide the signal output based at least in part on the information included in the signal provided by the at least one sensor until a subsequent determination by the processor that the sensor is in the failure mode.

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Facts

Application: 14/950,823Filed 24 Nov 2015
Priority: 19 Nov 2012
Published: 17 Mar 2016
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification10 codes

H05B 47/11
In response to determined parameters: by determining the brightness or colour temperature of ambient light
H05B 47/115
In response to determined parameters: by determining the presence or movement of objects or living beings
H05B 47/1985
Grouping of control procedures or address assignation to light sources: creation of lighting zones or scenes
H05B 45/10
Circuit arrangements for operating light-emitting diodes [LED]: controlling the intensity of the light

Family

Application61/728,150Us provisional application · filed 19 Nov 2012
Application13/786,332Division · filed 5 Mar 2013
Application14/950,823Division
US 2014/0139116 A1Published application
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