Lighting apparatus with integrated warning equipment and data collection equipment

• US 20100013671A1
• Filed: 06/20/2005
• Published: 01/21/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 07/05/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Massimo Fucci
• Original Assignee: Massimo Fucci
• Inventors: Fucci, Massimo
• Application Number:
  US11/650,621
• Publication Number:
  US 20100013671A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/936
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/19632 Camera support structures, e.g. attachment means, poles
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 13/19697 Arrangements wherein non-video detectors generate an alarm themselves
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 15/001 Concealed systems, e.g. disguised alarm systems to make covert systems
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 47/115 by determining the presence or movement of objects or living beings
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 47/125 by using cameras
• CPC Class Codes: Y02B 20/40 Control techniques providing energy savings, e.g. smart controller or presence detection

Abstract

A lighting apparatus including an external case (12) containing a lighting source (13), warning equipment (18) and data collection equipment (19), the warning equipment and data collection equipment being situated at least partly inside the above external case and the warning equipment being controlled on the basis of the data collected by the data collection equipment.

Claims

1. Lighting apparatus including an external case (12) containing a lighting source (13), warning equipment (18) and data collection equipment (19), the warning equipment and data collection equipment being situated at least partly inside the above external case and the warning equipment being controlled on the basis of the data collected by the data collection equipment.

2. Lighting apparatus as per claim 1 whose data collection equipment includes a cctv camera (19).

3. Lighting apparatus as per claim 1 whose data collection equipment includes sensors measuring the speed of vehicles driving along the road lit by the apparatus.

4. Lighting apparatus as per claim 1 whose data collection equipment includes environmental sensors.

5. Lighting apparatus as per claim 1 whose warning equipment (18) includes warning lights in different colours.

6. Lighting apparatus as per claim 1 including processing equipment (15) for the analysis of the data cold by the data collection equipment (19), such processing equipment being situated inside the above external case (12).

7. Lighting apparatus as per claim 1 including transmission equipment suitable to transfer the data collected to a remote data processing station and to control the warning equipment (18) from the remote data processing station.

8. Lighting apparatus as per claim 1 including a power unit (16) situated inside the external case (12) to supply the data collection equipment (19) and warning equipment (18).