# US 2021/0240149 A1 · Load control system responsive to location of an occupant and mobile devices > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 2021/0240149 A1 - Document ID: US20210240149A1 - Status: Published application - Kind: A1 - Application number: 17/236,813 - Filed: 2021-04-21 - Published: 2021-08-05 - Earliest claimed: 2014-08-22 - Assignees: Lutron Technology Company LLC - Applicants: Lutron Technology Company LLC - Inventors: Rhodes B. Baker; John H. Bull; William Bryce Fricke; Jason C. Killo; Galen Edgar Knode; Sanjeev Kumar; Sean R. Pearson; James Mathias Weber; Daniel L. Twaddell; Daniel Curtis Raneri; Timothy Mann; Sriram Gopalakrishnan; Jeffrey Karc; Greg Edward Sloan - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20210240149A1 ## CPC - G05B 15/02: electric - H02J 3/14: by switching loads on to, or off from, the networks, e.g. progressively balanced loading - H02J 13/1333: {by means of mobile telephony} - H02J 13/1335: {involving a local wireless network, e.g. Wi-Fi®, ZigBee® or Bluetooth®} - H02J 13/14: the power network being locally controlled, e.g. home energy management systems [HEMS] - H04W 4/02: Services making use of location information - H04W 4/029: Location-based management or tracking services - H05B 47/11: by determining the brightness or colour temperature of ambient light - H05B 47/115: by determining the presence or movement of objects or living beings - H05B 47/19: via wireless transmission - H05B 47/1965: {using handheld communication devices} - G05B 2219/2642: Domotique, domestic, home control, automation, smart house - H02J 2105/42: Home appliances - H05B 47/125: by using cameras - Y02B 20/40: Control techniques providing energy savings, e.g. smart controller or presence detection - Y02B 70/30: Systems integrating technologies related to power network operation and communication or information technologies for improving the carbon footprint of the management of residential or tertiary loads, i.e. smart grids as climate change mitigation technology in the buildings sector, including also the last stages of power distribution and the control, monitoring or operating management systems at local level - Y02B 70/3225: Demand response systems, e.g. load shedding, peak shaving - Y02B 90/20: Smart grids as enabling technology in buildings sector (smart grids supporting the management or operation of end-user stationary applications in general, or like technologies with no associated climate change mitigation effect Y04S20/00) - Y04S 20/00: Management or operation of end-user stationary applications or the last stages of power distribution; Controlling, monitoring or operating thereof - Y04S 20/20: End-user application control systems - Y04S 20/222: Demand response systems, e.g. load shedding, peak shaving - Y04S 20/246: the system involving the remote operation of lamps or lighting equipment - Y04S 40/126: using wireless data transmission - G05B: CONTROL OR REGULATING SYSTEMS IN GENERAL; FUNCTIONAL ELEMENTS OF SUCH SYSTEMS; MONITORING OR TESTING ARRANGEMENTS FOR SUCH SYSTEMS OR ELEMENTS (systems for controlling or regulating non-electric variables G05D; systems for regulating electric or magnetic variables G05F; control devices or systems insofar as characterised by mechanical features only G05G) - H02J: ELECTRIC POWER NETWORKS; CIRCUIT ARRANGEMENTS OR SYSTEMS FOR SUPPLYING OR DISTRIBUTING ELECTRIC POWER; SYSTEMS FOR STORING ELECTRIC ENERGY - H04W: WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS (broadcast communication H04H; communication systems using wireless links for non-selective communication, e.g. wireless extensions H04M1/72) - H05B: ELECTRIC HEATING; ELECTRIC LIGHT SOURCES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; CIRCUIT ARRANGEMENTS FOR ELECTRIC LIGHT SOURCES, IN GENERAL - Y02B: CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES RELATED TO BUILDINGS, e.g. HOUSING, HOUSE APPLIANCES OR RELATED END-USER APPLICATIONS - Y04S: SYSTEMS INTEGRATING TECHNOLOGIES RELATED TO POWER NETWORK OPERATION, COMMUNICATION OR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES FOR IMPROVING THE ELECTRICAL POWER GENERATION, TRANSMISSION, DISTRIBUTION, MANAGEMENT OR USAGE, i.e. SMART GRIDS ## Abstract A load control system may control an electrical load in a space of a building occupied by an occupant. The load control system may include a controller configured to determine the location of the occupant, and a load control device configured to automatically control the electrical load in response to the location of the occupant. The load control system may also include a mobile device adapted to be located on or immediately adjacent the occupant and configured to transmit and receive wireless signals. The load control device may be configured to automatically control the electrical load when the mobile device is located in the space. The load control system may further comprise an occupancy sensor and the load control device may automatically control the electrical load when the occupancy sensor indicates that the space is occupied and the mobile device is located in the space. ## Claims ### Claim 1 An apparatus, comprising: control circuitry to: receive from a device one or more signals via a first network, the one or more signals including: data representative of respective ones of a plurality of unique identifiers, each of the plurality of unique identifiers associated with a respective one of a corresponding plurality of beacon transmitting devices; and data representative of a signal strength for each of a plurality of beacon signals received at the device, each of the plurality of beacon signals including a respective one of the plurality of unique identifiers; determine a physical location of the device using the received unique identifier data and the received signal strength data; identify a plurality of scenes based on the determined physical location of the device, each of the plurality of scenes including an instruction set that includes one or more instructions for each of one or more electrical load devices included in the respective scene; and communicate to the device, via the first network, information representative of each of the plurality of scenes. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The apparatus of claim 1, the control circuitry to further: receive from the device, via the first network, an input that includes a scene selection; and communicate, via a second network, the one or more instructions to each of the one or more load devices included in the selected scene responsive to receipt of the scene selection. ### Claim 3 (depends on 2) The apparatus of claim 2 wherein the first network includes a network having a first network communication protocol and the second network includes a second network having a second network communication protocol that is different from the first network communication protocol. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the plurality of beacon transmitting devices comprise at least a portion of the one or more electrical load devices included in the selected scene. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The apparatus of claim 1, the control circuitry to further: determine the physical location of the device via triangulation using the received unique identifier data and the received signal strength data. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) The apparatus of claim 1, the control circuitry to further: determine, using the received unique identifier data and the received signal strength data, a direction of travel associated with the device. ### Claim 7 (depends on 1) The apparatus of claim 1, the control circuitry to further: identify one or more scenes proximate the determined direction of travel of the device. ### Claim 8 (depends on 1) The apparatus of claim 1 the control circuitry to further: receive from a device a second signal via the first network, the second signal including data representative of a personal identifier associated with a user of the device. ### Claim 9 (depends on 8) The apparatus of claim 8 the control circuitry to further: identify a plurality of scenes based on the determined physical location of the device and the received personal identifier associated with the user of the device. ### Claim 10 A method to control the operation of one or more electrical load devices, the method comprising: receiving, by a control circuit from a device, one or more signals via a first network using a first network communication protocol, the one or more signals including: data representative of respective ones of a plurality of unique identifiers, each of the plurality of unique identifiers associated with a respective one of a corresponding plurality of beacon transmitting devices; and data representative of a signal strength for each of a plurality of beacon signals received at the device, each of the plurality of beacon signals including a respective one of the plurality of unique identifiers; determining, by the control circuit, a physical location of the device using the received unique identifier data and the received signal strength data; identifying, by the control circuit, a plurality of scenes based on the determined physical location of the device, each of the plurality of scenes including an instruction set that includes one or more instructions for each of one or more electrical load devices included in the respective scene; and communicating, by the control circuit to the device, via the first network, information representative of each of the plurality of scenes. ### Claim 11 (depends on 10) The method of claim 10, further comprising: receiving, by the control circuit from the device, via the first network, an input that includes a scene selection; communicating, by the control circuit via a second network, the one or more instructions to each of the one or more load devices included in the selected scene responsive to receipt of the scene selection. ### Claim 12 (depends on 11) The method of claim 11 wherein communicating, via the second network, the one or more instructions to each of the one or more load devices included in the selected scene responsive to receipt of the scene selection further comprises: communicating, by the control circuit via a second network having a second network communication protocol that is different from a first network communication protocol. ### Claim 13 (depends on 10) The method of claim 10 wherein receiving the one or more signals from the plurality of beacon transmitting devices further comprises: receiving, by the control circuit, at least some of the one or more signals from at least a portion of the one or more electrical load devices included in the selected scene. ### Claim 14 (depends on 10) The method of claim 10, further comprising: determining, by the control circuit, the physical location of the device via triangulation using the received unique identifier data and the received signal strength data. ### Claim 15 (depends on 10) The method of claim 10, further comprising: determining, by the control circuit using the received unique identifier data and the received signal strength data, a direction of travel associated with the device. ### Claim 16 (depends on 10) The method of claim 10, further comprising: identifying, by the control circuit, one or more scenes proximate the determined direction of travel of the device. ### Claim 17 (depends on 10) The method of claim 10, further comprising: receiving, by the control circuit, from a device a second signal via the first network, the second signal including data representative of a personal identifier associated with a user of the device. ### Claim 18 (depends on 17) The method of claim 17, further comprising: identifying, by the control circuit, a plurality of scenes based on the determined physical location of the device and the received personal identifier associated with the user of the device. ### Claim 19 A non-transitory, machine-readable, storage device that includes instructions that, when executed by an electrical load control circuit, cause the control circuit to: receive, from a device via a communications interface circuit, one or more signals via a first network using a first network communication protocol, the one or more signals including: data representative of respective ones of a plurality of unique identifiers, each of the plurality of unique identifiers associated with a respective one of a corresponding plurality of beacon transmitting devices; and data representative of a signal strength for each of a plurality of beacon signals received at the device, each of the plurality of beacon signals including a respective one of the plurality of unique identifiers; determine a physical location of the device using the received unique identifier data and the received signal strength data; identify a plurality of scenes based on the determined physical location of the device, each of the plurality of scenes including an instruction set that includes one or more instructions for each of one or more electrical load devices included in the respective scene; and communicate, to the device via the communications interface circuit, via the first network, information representative of each of the plurality of scenes. ### Claim 20 (depends on 21) The non-transitory, machine-readable, storage device of claim 21 wherein the machine-readable instructions further cause the control circuit to: receive, from the device, via the first network, an input that includes a scene selection; communicating, by the control circuit via a second network, the one or more instructions to each of the one or more load devices included in the selected scene responsive to receipt of the scene selection. ### Claim 21 (depends on 20) The non-transitory, machine-readable, storage device of claim 20 wherein the instructions that cause the control circuit to communicate, via the second network, the one or more instructions to each of the one or more load devices included in the selected scene responsive to receipt of the scene selection further cause the control circuit to: communicate, via a second network having a second network communication protocol that is different from a first network communication protocol. ### Claim 22 (depends on 19) The non-transitory, machine-readable, storage device of claim 19 wherein the instructions that cause the control circuit to receive the one or more signals from the plurality of beacon transmitting devices further cause the control circuit to: receive at least some of the one or more signals from at least a portion of the one or more electrical load devices included in the selected scene. ### Claim 23 (depends on 19) The non-transitory, machine-readable, storage device of claim 19 wherein the machine-readable instructions further cause the control circuit to: determine the physical location of the device via triangulation using the received unique identifier data and the received signal strength data. ### Claim 24 (depends on 19) The non-transitory, machine-readable, storage device of claim 19 wherein the machine-readable instructions further cause the control circuit to: determine, using the received unique identifier data and the received signal strength data, a direction of travel associated with the device. ### Claim 25 (depends on 19) The non-transitory, machine-readable, storage device of claim 19 wherein the machine-readable instructions further cause the control circuit to: identify one or more scenes proximate the determined direction of travel of the device. ### Claim 26 (depends on 19) The non-transitory, machine-readable, storage device of claim 19 wherein the machine-readable instructions further cause the control circuit to: receive from a device a second signal via the first network, the second signal including data representative of a personal identifier associated with a user of the device. ### Claim 27 (depends on 19) The non-transitory, machine-readable, storage device of claim 19 wherein the machine-readable instructions further cause the control circuit to: identify a plurality of scenes based on the determined physical location of the device and the received personal identifier associated with the user of the device.