Color-changing lighting dynamic control
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1. A method of controlling the general purpose color-changing lights on a premises, the method comprising:
- in a premises network connected to a service network, via the internet, the premises network having an electronic security system, a color-changing light controller, a plurality of general purpose color-changing lights controlled by the light controller and positioned throughout the premises and used as non-emergency, general purpose light sources providing illumination in rooms of the premises, a color-changing light gateway, and an internet router;
connecting the premises network, via the internet, to the service network, the service network having a server;
transmitting color-changing light control data between the service network, and the premises network; and
using the color-changing light control data;
controlling the general purpose lights to emit a controlled lighting code via the color-changing light controller of the premises network by changing the color of light emitted from the general purpose lights from an initial color to a pattern of alternating colored light and white light, and communicating by the controlled lighting code an emergency condition of fire by alternating red and white light and an emergency condition requiring police by alternating blue and white light; and
placing control parameters limiting the control options available to a user for selective operation of the color-changing lights of the premises to prevent use of the controlled lighting code for non-emergency purposes.
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Abstract
A control gateway for colored or color-changing lighting fixtures to allow access to local and remote control systems with real time control with power backup for security triggering using an established color code to indicate the nature of the emergency.
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1. A method of controlling the general purpose color-changing lights on a premises, the method comprising:
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in a premises network connected to a service network, via the internet, the premises network having an electronic security system, a color-changing light controller, a plurality of general purpose color-changing lights controlled by the light controller and positioned throughout the premises and used as non-emergency, general purpose light sources providing illumination in rooms of the premises, a color-changing light gateway, and an internet router; connecting the premises network, via the internet, to the service network, the service network having a server; transmitting color-changing light control data between the service network, and the premises network; and
using the color-changing light control data;controlling the general purpose lights to emit a controlled lighting code via the color-changing light controller of the premises network by changing the color of light emitted from the general purpose lights from an initial color to a pattern of alternating colored light and white light, and communicating by the controlled lighting code an emergency condition of fire by alternating red and white light and an emergency condition requiring police by alternating blue and white light; and placing control parameters limiting the control options available to a user for selective operation of the color-changing lights of the premises to prevent use of the controlled lighting code for non-emergency purposes. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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13. A method of controlling general-purpose, color-changing lighting on a premises, the method comprising:
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for general-purpose lighting on the premises, the lighting used for illumination of rooms in the premises, the lighting emitting an original color of light; controlling the color-changing lighting in response to an emergency condition to emit a color-coded signal consisting of changing the emitted light alternatingly between red and white in a repeated sequence, wherein the red color indicates a fire emergency condition; and controlling the color-changing lighting in response to an emergency condition to emit a color-coded signal consisting of changing the emitted light alternatingly between blue and white in a repeated sequence, wherein the blue color indicates a police emergency condition; and placing control parameters limiting the control of the color-changing lighting available to a user to prevent use of the color-coded signals for non-emergency purposes. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 25)
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21. A method of controlling general-purpose, color-changing lighting on a premises, the method comprising:
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for general-purpose lighting on the premises, the lighting used for illumination of rooms in the premises, the lighting emitting an original color of light; controlling the color-changing lighting in response to an emergency condition to emit a color-coded emergency signal consisting of changing the emitted light alternatingly between a non-white color and white in a repeated sequence, wherein the non-white color indicates a type of emergency condition; and placing control parameters limiting the control of the color-changing lighting available to a user to prevent use of the color-coded signals for non-emergency purposes. - View Dependent Claims (22, 23, 24)
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