US 2018/0027636 A1 · WIRELESS LIGHTING CONTROL SYSTEM

Abstract

A networked lighting control system includes a variety of lighting control devices, including intelligent luminaires, standalone intelligent control nodes, plug load controllers, and power packs that communicate over a wireless control network and a commissioning network. Each lighting control device includes a dual-band wireless radio communication interface system. The dual-band wireless radio communication interface system is configured for unicast and multicast communication over a first of two different wireless communication bands as well as point-to-point communication over a second wireless communication band. The standalone intelligence control node can be a wall switch or detector. Commissioning and provisioning of the lighting control system is performed over the second communication band via communications with a mobile device and lighting controls are carried out over the first communication band. The lighting control devices may be divided into light control groups or zones.

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Dependent claims

A lighting system, comprising:

luminaires, each respective one of the luminaires comprising:
(a) a light source;
(b) a driver circuit coupled to the light source;
(c) a processor coupled to the driver circuit and configured to control light source operation via the driver;
(d) a dual-band wireless radio communication interface system configured for wireless communication:
(i) via a lighting control network, over a first of two different wireless communication bands, of light source control operations over the first wireless communication band;
and
(ii) via a commissioning network with a mobile commissioning device, over a second of the two different wireless communication bands, of commissioning, configuration, or maintenance operations for the respective luminaire;
(e) a memory accessible to the processor;
and
(f) programming in the memory which configures the processor to control operations of the respective luminaire, including the communications over the two different wireless communication bands via the dual-band wireless radio communication interface system.

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Wireless lighting control system

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