Light management system with an integrated energy function
First Claim
1. A light management system with an integrated energy function for automatically configuring a lighting system at a lower energy consumption, wherein the system comprises memory and one or more processors configured to perform the following operations:
- receiving energy information about light fixtures of the lighting system, wherein the energy information comprises an energy consumption of the light fixtures at different operating conditions;
reading from a file an abstract description of a lighting atmosphere rendered by the lighting system; and
automatically rendering the lighting atmosphere with the lighting system, the lighting atmosphere comprising light effects;
wherein automatically rendering the lighting atmosphere with the lighting system comprises;
evaluating suited configuration settings for the light fixtures of the lighting system, based on the abstract description of the lighting atmosphere, without taking the received energy information into account, and computing initial configuration settings for the lighting system, and feeding the initial configuration settings to the light fixtures via network connections; and
adjusting the initial configuration settings for yielding similar light effects with lower energy consumption by computing, by the lighting management system, adjusted configuration settings for the light fixtures using a multi-objective optimization technique taking into account a photometric rendering accuracy bound for fixing how much degradation can be tolerated to label similar light effects as acceptable, an energy efficiency constraint, and the received energy information with regard to energy consumption of the lighting system.
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Abstract
The invention relates to the integration of an energy function into a light management system, particularly for saving energy and monitoring energy consumption. According to an embodiment of the invention, a light management system (10) with an integrated energy function is provided, wherein the system is adapted to receiving energy information about light fixtures (12-16) of a lighting system (18), and to processing the received energy information with regard to energy consumption of the lighting system (18). The energy function may be for example used to automatically configure a lighting system to low energy consumption, to allow further configurations of the lighting system with regard to lowering energy consumption, or to provide a user with a sensible set of lights that can be turned off and will amount to significant energy savings when turned off.
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11 Claims
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1. A light management system with an integrated energy function for automatically configuring a lighting system at a lower energy consumption, wherein the system comprises memory and one or more processors configured to perform the following operations:
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receiving energy information about light fixtures of the lighting system, wherein the energy information comprises an energy consumption of the light fixtures at different operating conditions; reading from a file an abstract description of a lighting atmosphere rendered by the lighting system; and automatically rendering the lighting atmosphere with the lighting system, the lighting atmosphere comprising light effects; wherein automatically rendering the lighting atmosphere with the lighting system comprises; evaluating suited configuration settings for the light fixtures of the lighting system, based on the abstract description of the lighting atmosphere, without taking the received energy information into account, and computing initial configuration settings for the lighting system, and feeding the initial configuration settings to the light fixtures via network connections; and adjusting the initial configuration settings for yielding similar light effects with lower energy consumption by computing, by the lighting management system, adjusted configuration settings for the light fixtures using a multi-objective optimization technique taking into account a photometric rendering accuracy bound for fixing how much degradation can be tolerated to label similar light effects as acceptable, an energy efficiency constraint, and the received energy information with regard to energy consumption of the lighting system. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. A method for managing a lighting system, comprising:
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receiving energy information about light fixtures of the lighting system, wherein the energy information comprises an energy consumption of the light fixtures at different operating conditions; reading from a file an abstract description of a lighting atmosphere rendered by the lighting system; and automatically rendering the lighting atmosphere with the lighting system, the lighting atmosphere comprising light effects; wherein automatically rendering the lighting atmosphere with the lighting system comprises; evaluating suited configuration settings for the light fixtures of the lighting system, based on the abstract description of the lighting atmosphere, without taking the received energy information into account, and computing initial configuration settings for the lighting system, and feeding the initial configuration settings to the light fixtures via network connections; and adjusting the initial configuration settings for yielding similar light effects with lower energy consumption by computing, by the lighting management system, adjusted configuration settings for the light fixtures using a multi-objective optimization technique taking into account a photometric rendering accuracy bound for fixing how much degradation can be tolerated to label similar light effects as acceptable, an energy efficiency constraint, and the received energy information with regard to energy consumption of the lighting system.
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11. At least one non-transitory computer-readable medium being coupled with one or more processors and comprising instructions that, in response to execution of the instructions by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform the following operations:
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receiving energy information about light fixtures of a lighting system, wherein the energy information comprises an energy consumption of the light fixtures at different operating conditions; reading from a file an abstract description of a lighting atmosphere rendered by the lighting system; and automatically rendering the lighting atmosphere with the lighting system, the lighting atmosphere comprising light effects; wherein automatically rendering the lighting atmosphere with the lighting system comprises; evaluating suited configuration settings for the light fixtures of the lighting system, based on the abstract description of the lighting atmosphere, without taking the received energy information into account, and computing initial configuration settings for the lighting system, and feeding the initial configuration settings to the light fixtures via network connections; and adjusting the initial configuration settings for yielding similar light effects with lower energy consumption by computing, by the lighting management system, adjusted configuration settings for the light fixtures using a multi-objective optimization technique taking into account a photometric rendering accuracy bound for fixing how much degradation can be tolerated to label similar light effects as acceptable, an energy efficiency constraint, and the received energy information with regard to energy consumption of the lighting system.
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