Combination Lamp and Wireless Network Access System
First Claim
1. A combination lamp and wireless network access system, comprising:
- a housing;
a lamp contained within said housing; and
a node comprising a wireless network access subsystem within said housing.
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Abstract
A Combination Lamp and Wireless Network Access System, and a related Method for creating a Local Mesh Network. The device and method includes a combination lighting lamp and mesh network node. The combination lamp/node assembly is available both as original equipment, and as a retrofit kit for legacy lamps. The lamp portion of the combination lamp/node provides area lighting through a lens located in the housing within which the combination lamp/node is housed. The node portion of the assembly provides sophisticated mesh network functionality such that the placement of a series of devices of the present invention should provide a high quality, wireless “mesh” computer network. The lamp/node assembly may optionally provide local security/surveillance functionality, including cameras and sensors in order to enable typical security system functionality. The mesh network created by interconnection of a series of the lamp/node assemblies includes the ability to repair itself in the event of damage to one or more networked lamp/node assemblies, as well as the ability to constantly seek to optimize electronic traffic through the local mesh network. The lamp/node assemblies may further include Infrared communications capabilities to facilitate mesh communications between nodes in the mesh by either WiFi or Infrared means.
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1. A combination lamp and wireless network access system, comprising:
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a housing; a lamp contained within said housing; and a node comprising a wireless network access subsystem within said housing. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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9. A local mesh computer network, comprising:
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a first combination lamp/node assembly; a second said combination lamp/node assembly in wireless communication with said first lamp/node assembly via a local mesh communications link; and wherein each said lamp/node assembly comprises a housing within which a wireless networking subsystem and a lamp subsystem are located.
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- 10. The network of claim 10, wherein each said wireless networking subsystem in communication with said local mesh network comprises dynamic mesh optimization functionality, said dynamic mesh optimization functionality comprising the ability for each said wireless networking subsystem to detect and monitor all said local mesh communications links between lamp/node assemblies in said local mesh network in order to choose a route that optimizes communications over said link to a wide area network communications conduit in communication with said local mesh network.
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17. A method for creating a local mesh computer network, comprising the steps of:
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providing a first combination lamp/node assembly; and providing a second said combination lamp/node assembly in wireless communication with said first lamp/node assembly via a local mesh communications link, wherein each said lamp/node assembly of said providing steps comprise a housing within which a wireless networking subsystem and a lamp subsystem are located. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20)
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