Lighting apparatus and lighting system supporting a mesh network

• US 10,136,505 B2
• Filed: 01/09/2017
• Issued: 11/20/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 01/12/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd. (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd. (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Kurihara, Shinichiro
• Primary Examiner(s): White, Dylan
• Application Number:
  US15/401,268
• Publication Number:
  US 20170202076A1
• Time in Patent Office: 680 Days
• Field of Search: 315307
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 45/00 Circuit arrangements for operating light-emitting diodes [LED]
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 45/20 Controlling the colour of the light
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 47/19 via wireless transmission
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 47/1965 using handheld communication devices

Abstract

Lighting apparatuses each include an apparatus communicator and an apparatus controller. The apparatus communicator wirelessly transmits and receives information on operations of the lighting apparatuses. The apparatus controller interprets: a mesh profile which is a communications protocol for the lighting apparatus to transmit and receive the information to and from another lighting apparatus and a communication terminal forming a mesh network, and a user profile which is a communications protocol for the lighting apparatus and the communication terminal to communicate with each other, the user profile being set depending on the communication terminal.

Claims

1. A lighting apparatus comprising:

an apparatus communicator which wirelessly transmits and receives information on operation of the lighting apparatus; and

an apparatus controller which

interprets a mesh profile which is a communications protocol for the lighting apparatus to transmit and receive the information to and from another lighting apparatus and a communication terminal forming a mesh network, and a user profile which is a communications protocol for the lighting apparatus and the communication terminal to communicate with each other, the user profile being set depending on the communication terminal, and

executes a command corresponding to the mesh profile and received from the other lighting apparatus, and a command corresponding to the user profile and received from the communication terminal,

wherein the command corresponding to the user profile includes a reset command for initializing a configuration of the lighting apparatus to cause the lighting apparatus to be ready to participate in the mesh network, and

the command corresponding to the mesh profile does not include the reset command.

2. The lighting apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

when the lighting apparatus is disconnected from and no longer forming the mesh network with the other lighting apparatus, the apparatus controller causes the lighting apparatus no longer forming the mesh network to participate in the mesh network by using the command corresponding to the user profile.

3. A lighting system comprising

a plurality of the lighting apparatuses, each including:

an apparatus communicator which wirelessly transmits and receives information on operation of the lighting apparatus; and

an apparatus controller which

interprets a mesh profile which is a communications protocol for the lighting apparatus to transmit and receive the information to and from another lighting apparatus among the plurality of lighting apparatuses and a communication terminal forming a mesh network; and

a user profile which is a communications protocol for the lighting apparatus and the communication terminal to communicate with each other, the user profile set depending on the communication terminal, and

executes a command corresponding to the mesh profile and received from the other lighting apparatus, and a command corresponding to the user profile and received from the communication terminal,

wherein the command corresponding to the user profile includes a reset command for initializing a configuration of the lighting apparatus to cause the lighting apparatus to be ready to participate in the mesh network, and

the command corresponding to the mesh profile does not include the reset command.

4. The lighting system according to claim 3, wherein

when the lighting apparatus is disconnected from and no longer forming the mesh network with the other lighting apparatus, the apparatus controller causes the lighting apparatus no longer forming the mesh network to participate in the mesh network by using the command corresponding to the user profile.