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US 2017/0208665 A1Published application
Distributed control system operation and configuration
AssigneeLeviton Manufacturing Co., Inc.
InventorsRICHARD A. LEINEN, DAVID E. BURGESS, SCOTT ALEXANDER ANDERSON, KEVIN PARSONS
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Abstract
A control system including an input component configured to receive an input and generate control information in response to the input; a communication link coupled to the input component; and a plurality of control components, each of the control components coupled to the input component through the communication link and configured to receive the control information and to actuate an associated actuator in response to the control information.
Claims19
A lighting control system, comprising:
- a plurality of lighting system input components;
- a plurality of lighting system control components, wherein the input components have no configuration information of the control components, and the control components have no configuration information of the input components;
- a communications link;
- and
- a master component configured to maintain a schedule of operating mode changes and to transmit a schedule change signal to change the operating modes through the communications link in accordance with the schedule, wherein an operating mode is a configuration that determines how a control component operates.
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A method of operating a lighting control system, comprising:
- establishing the lighting control system with a plurality of input components and control components, wherein the input components have no configuration information of the control components and the control components have no configuration information of the input components;
- maintaining, at a master component, a schedule of operating mode changes, wherein an operating mode is a configuration that determines how a control component operates;
- and
- transmitting, from the master component, a schedule change signal through a communications link to change the operating modes.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.