Imaging service using outdoor lighting networks
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1. An outdoor lighting network (OLN) comprising:
- lighting units equipped with capabilities to communicate with other lighting units in the OLN, said lighting units including,an imaging device, the imaging device configured to communicate with at least one of the lighting units;
a sensor module, the sensor module configured to communicate sensor data to at least one of the lighting units, wherein the sensor module includes an imaging sensor device or multiple different sensor devices, wherein the sensor data relates to an environmental area of a respective lighting unit; and
a control module configured to record image data from the imaging device of a selected event, only when the selected event is on a list of predetermined selected events that trigger the lighting unit data recording by the imaging device, wherein the selected event is based on sensor data from the sensor module, wherein the control module uses the imaging device data or a combination of multiple different sensor data to identify predetermined events and determine if the identified predetermined events relates to a trigger in the list of predetermined selected events, and assign an event type and a priority to the recorded image data and transmit only the recorded image data of selected events or the selected events of a predetermined priority to a lighting manager, and allow a user to receive portions of the recorded image data of selected events by a different communication method than transmission to the lighting manager.
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Abstract
A system and methods to provide imaging service using outdoor lighting networks. The system uses outdoor lighting networks to manage/control video/image sensors connected to the network, e.g. hosted at lighting units, and coordinates the capture of useful video/image data associated with events. The system also provides an information search platform for users to retrieve only the relevant video/image data associated with events of interest. Furthermore, the system controls when and how to retrieve video/image data at lighting units across the whole network according to user requests, the priority of the events, and available bandwidth.
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15 Claims
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1. An outdoor lighting network (OLN) comprising:
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lighting units equipped with capabilities to communicate with other lighting units in the OLN, said lighting units including, an imaging device, the imaging device configured to communicate with at least one of the lighting units; a sensor module, the sensor module configured to communicate sensor data to at least one of the lighting units, wherein the sensor module includes an imaging sensor device or multiple different sensor devices, wherein the sensor data relates to an environmental area of a respective lighting unit; and a control module configured to record image data from the imaging device of a selected event, only when the selected event is on a list of predetermined selected events that trigger the lighting unit data recording by the imaging device, wherein the selected event is based on sensor data from the sensor module, wherein the control module uses the imaging device data or a combination of multiple different sensor data to identify predetermined events and determine if the identified predetermined events relates to a trigger in the list of predetermined selected events, and assign an event type and a priority to the recorded image data and transmit only the recorded image data of selected events or the selected events of a predetermined priority to a lighting manager, and allow a user to receive portions of the recorded image data of selected events by a different communication method than transmission to the lighting manager. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3)
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4. A method to coordinate and control data collection of events from imaging devices controlled through an outdoor lighting network (OLN), said OLN having lighting units and a lighting manager, at least one of the lighting units being in communication with a sensor module wherein the sensor module includes an imaging sensor device or multiple different sensor devices;
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recording image data of a selected event, by one or more of the imaging devices, only when the selected event is is on a list of predetermined selected events that trigger the lighting unit data recoding by the imaging device being detected by the sensor module, and wherein the detection includes using the imaging device data or a combination of multiple sensor data to identify predetermined events and determine if the identified predetermined events relates to a trigger in a list of predetermined events, wherein sensor data from the sensor module relates to an environmental area of a respective lighting unit, assigning an event type and a priority to the recorded image data and only transmitting the recorded image data of selected events or the selected events of a predetermined priority to the lighting manager, and allow a user to receive portions of the recorded image data of selected events by a different communication method than transmission to the lighting manager. - View Dependent Claims (5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. An outdoor lighting network (OLN) comprising:
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lighting units equipped with capabilities to communicate with other lighting units in the OLN, said lighting units including, an imaging device, the imaging device configured to communicate with at least one of the lighting units; a sensor module, the sensor module configured to communicate sensor data to at least one of the lighting units, wherein the sensor module includes an imaging sensor device or multiple different sensor devices, wherein the sensor data relates to an environmental area of a respective lighting unit; and a control module configured to record image data from the imaging device of a selected event, only when the selected event is on a list of predetermined selected events that trigger the lighting unit data recording by the imaging device, wherein the selected event is based on sensor data from the sensor module, wherein the control module uses the imaging device data or a combination of multiple different sensor data to identify predetermined events and determine if the identified predetermined events relates to a trigger in the list of predetermined selected events, and assign an event type and a priority to the recorded image data and transmits information about the recorded image data of selected events to a lighting manager, and allow a user to request portions of the recorded image data of selected events.
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