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US 2022/0287162 A1Published application
Data acquisition methods and apparatus for a network connected led driver
AssigneeMATE GmbH
InventorsJason Neudorf, Steven Lyons, Kyle Hathaway
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Abstract
A lighting system including monitoring of input power and output power parameters to a set of lighting loads to detect power faults and/or anomalies. The set of sensing circuits include primary side and secondary side sensing circuits that communicate with a set of monitoring circuits to process the information supplied by the sensing circuits. If a fault and/or anomaly is sensed or detected, a signal is transmitted to provide an alert.
Claims20
A light emitting diode (LED) driver, comprising:
- a set of sensing circuits, the set of sensing circuits including a set of primary side sensing circuits and a set of secondary side sensing circuits;
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- a data acquisition apparatus including:
- a primary side monitoring circuit for receiving and processing primary side data from the set of primary side sensing circuits;
- a secondary side monitoring circuit for receiving and processing secondary side data from the set of secondary side sensing circuits;
- a lighting status apparatus, and
- a communication interface;
- wherein the lighting status apparatus and the primary side monitoring circuit are configured to determine if a power anomaly or fault has occurred based on the primary side data and the lighting status apparatus and the secondary side monitoring circuit are configured to determine if a power anomaly or fault has occurred based on the secondary side data;
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- wherein if occurrence of a power anomaly or fault is determined, the communication interface is configured to transmit a signal indicative of the power anomaly or fault to an external controller.
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A method of determining faults within a light emitting diode (LED) driver comprising:
- determining primary side and secondary side data via a set of primary side and secondary side sensing circuits of a light emitting diode (LED) driver;
- processing the primary side data, via a primary side monitoring circuit, to determine if a primary side power anomaly or fault has occurred;
- processing the secondary side data, via a secondary side monitoring circuit to determine if a secondary side power anomaly or fault has occurred;
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- transmitting a signal to a lighting system controller if it is determined that a power anomaly or fault has occurred.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.