Method and system for managing space configurations

• US 10,430,528 B2
• Filed: 05/09/2016
• Issued: 10/01/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 05/12/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Signify Holding B.V. (Signify N.V.)
• Original Assignee: Signify Holding B.V. (Signify N.V.)
• Inventors: Kumar, Rohit, Patel, Maulin Dahyabhai, Gopal Samy, Mathan Kumar
• Primary Examiner(s): Dang, Duy M
• Application Number:
  US15/569,691
• Publication Number:
  US 20180121572A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,240 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 30/13 Architectural design, e.g. computer-aided architectural design [CAAD] related to design of buildings, bridges, landscapes, production plants or roads
• CPC Class Codes: H01H 2300/03 Application domotique, e.g. for house automation, bus connected switches, sensors, loads or intelligent wiring
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 47/115 by determining the presence or movement of objects or living beings
• CPC Class Codes: Y02B 20/40 Control techniques providing energy savings, e.g. smart controller or presence detection
• CPC Class Codes: Y02B 90/20 Smart grids as enabling technology in buildings sector smart grids supporting the management or operation of end-user stationary applications in general, or like technologies with no associated climate change mitigation effect Y04S20/00
• CPC Class Codes: Y04S 20/14 Protecting elements, switches, relays or circuit breakers

Abstract

A system for managing workspace configurations disclosed. The system comprises a plurality of sensors, at least one of the sensors being associated with a corresponding workspace, determining changes in a current configuration of the work space with regard to a previous configuration of the space, wherein the current configuration is determined based on signals received from selected ones of the sensors and providing an indication when the a change in the configuration has been determined.

Claims

1. A system for managing sensors in a space configuration, comprising:

a plurality of sensors incorporated into a space, at least one of the plurality of sensors providing a plurality of sensor pixel information of the space;

a processor;

receiving a plurality of sensor pixel information from respective selected ones of the plurality of sensors,

associating one or more of the sensor pixel information with a corresponding subspace of a plurality of subspaces of the space;

establishing a current configuration of the space associated with the corresponding subspaces, by mapping the received sensor pixel information associated with the corresponding subspace from the selected ones of plurality of sensors;

determining a center of gravity of motion within the space, using the plurality of sensor pixel information of the plurality of subspaces over a predetermined period of time, of the current configuration;

comparing the center of gravity of motion of the current configuration of the space with a center of gravity of motion within the space of a previous configuration of the space over a previous predetermined period of time;

determining whether a configuration change from the previous configuration of the space has occurred; and

adjusting a field of view of at least one of the selected ones of the plurality of sensors based on the configuration change.

2. The system of claim 1, comprising:

a storage unit storing the current configuration with at least one of the previous configurations.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein one of the at least one of the previous configurations is associated with an initial configuration.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the plurality of sensors are selected from a group consisting of:

audio, video, sonic, ultra-sonic, infra-red, thermal, thermopile, a time of flight sensor, and a camera.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the adjusting a field of view of at least one of the selected ones of the plurality of sensors includes by activating/deactivating one or more pixels in the selected ones of the plurality of sensors or changing the orientation of one or more of the selected ones of the plurality of sensors.

6. The system of claim 2, comprising:

storing, in the storage unit, the current configuration when a change in the previous configuration is determined.

7. The system of claim 1 comprising:

the processor;

integrating each of the plurality of spaces into multiple space plan.

8. The system of claim 7, comprising:

storing a time associated with the stored current configuration.

9. A management system for managing sensors in configurations arranged in a plurality of spaces;

comprising;

a plurality of sensors assigned to each of the plurality of spaces, at least one of the plurality of sensors providing a plurality of sensor pixel information of a respective space, wherein each of the spaces is divided into a plurality of subspaces;

a processing system;

receiving a plurality of sensor pixel information from respective selected ones of the plurality of sensors;

collating the one or more sensor pixel information received from selected ones of the plurality of sensors with a corresponding subspace of the plurality of spaces;

determining a current configuration of the corresponding ones of the plurality of spaces based on the collated received signals by mapping the received sensor pixel information associated with the corresponding subspace from the selected ones of plurality of sensors;

determining a center of gravity of motion within the space, using the plurality of sensor pixel information of the plurality of subspaces over a predetermined period of time, of the current configuration;

determining whether the current configuration is different than a previous configuration of the corresponding ones of the plurality of spaces; and

adjusting a field of view of at least one of the selected ones of the plurality of sensors based on the configuration change.

10. The management system of claim 9, wherein the plurality of sensors are selected from a group consisting of:

audio, visual, ultra-sonic, infra-red, thermal, thermopile, a time of flight sensor, a camera.

11. The management system of claim 9, a storage unit storing the current configuration with at least one of the previous configurations.

12. The management system of claim 9, wherein the adjusting a field of view of at least one of the selected ones of the plurality of sensors includes by activating/deactivating one or more pixels in the selected ones of the plurality of sensors or changing the orientation of one or more of the selected ones of the plurality of sensors.

13. The system of claim 9, wherein comparing the current configuration with the previous configuration comprises:

the processor;

determining a change in associated subspace elements of the current configuration and the previous configuration.