Lighting apparatus and lighting system supporting a mesh network

• US 10,327,315 B2
• Filed: 10/16/2018
• Issued: 06/18/2019
• 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 C
• Application Number:
  US16/161,810
• Publication Number:
  US 20190053358A1
• Time in Patent Office: 245 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

A lighting apparatus includes 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 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 mesh profile and the command corresponding to the user profile include a reset command for changing a configuration of the lighting apparatus to a default state,

wherein the reset command, when executed, retains and does not delete an address or cryptographic key stored in the apparatus controller.

2. The lighting apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the apparatus communicator receives from the other lighting apparatus the reset command corresponding to the mesh profile, and the apparatus controller executes the reset command corresponding to the mesh 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 mesh profile and the command corresponding to the user profile include a reset command for changing a configuration of the lighting apparatus to a default state,

wherein the reset command, when executed, retains and does not delete an address or cryptographic key stored in the apparatus controller.

4. The lighting system according to claim 3, wherein

the apparatus communicator receives from the other lighting apparatus the reset command corresponding to the mesh profile, and the apparatus controller executes the reset command corresponding to the mesh profile.