COMMISSIONING OF A BUILDING SERVICE SYSTEM

• US 20130145610A1
• Filed: 06/08/2011
• Published: 06/13/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 06/10/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Signify Holding B.V. (Signify N.V.)
• Original Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. (Koninklijke Philips N.V.)
• Inventors: Feri, Lorenzo, Pandharipande, Ashish Vijay, Wang, Ying, Schenk, Tim Corneel Wilhelmus
• Granted Patent: US 9,968,018 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 29/592.1
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 5/016 between areas within a building
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/56 Packet switching systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/18 Closed-circuit television [CCTV] systems, i.e. systems in which the video signal is not broadcast
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 47/105 in response to determined parameters
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 13/00 Apparatus or processes specially adapted for manufacturing or adjusting assemblages of electric components
• CPC Class Codes: Y02B 20/40 Control techniques providing energy savings, e.g. smart controller or presence detection
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/49002 Electrical device making

Abstract

The invention relates to adjusting at least one of installed building service sensors (10) of a building service system. A sensor coverage area of at least one sensor (10) is adjusted based on information on a position of the installed sensor (10) relative to at least one other sensor (10). For example, to determine the position of the sensor (10) relative to said at least one other sensor (10), each sensor (10) establishes a wireless communication between said sensor (10) and at least one other sensor (10) via a wireless communication means (34) of the sensor (10). For example, information on the positions of the installed sensors (10) is used to assign to each sensor (10) at least one of installed building service supply devices (12) of the system.

Claims

1. Method of adjusting at least one sensor of installed building service sensors of a building service system, the method comprising the step of:

automatically adjusting a sensor coverage area of said at least one sensor, the adjusting of the sensor coverage area of each of said at least one sensor being based on information on a position of the installed sensor relative to at least one other sensor of the installed building service sensors.

2. Method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the system further comprises at least one installed building service supply device, the method further comprising the step of:

using information on the position of said at least one sensor to assign to each of said at least one sensor at least one of the at least one installed building service supply device.

3. Method as claimed in claim 2, wherein the at least one installed building service supply device is selected from the group consisting of one or more of luminaires, heating units, ventilation units and air conditioning units.

4. Method as claimed in claim 1, wherein in the step of automatically adjusting a sensor coverage area of said at least one sensor, the sensor coverage area of each sensor of said at least one sensor is adjusted based on information on a position of the sensor relative to at least a nearest neighboring sensor of the installed building service sensors.

5. Method as claimed in claim 1, wherein, in the step of automatically adjusting a sensor coverage area of said at least one sensor, the sensor coverage area of each of said at least one sensor is adjusted based on a map of the spatial arrangement of at least said at least one installed sensor of the installed building service sensors.

6. Method as claimed in claim 1,

wherein each of said at least one sensor comprises a sensor coverage adjusting unit for adjusting a sensor coverage area of the sensor, and

wherein in the step of automatically adjusting a sensor coverage area of said at least one sensor, said adjusting comprises controlling the sensor coverage adjusting unit of each of said at least one sensor in order to adjust the sensor coverage area of said sensor.

7. Method as claimed in claim 1,

wherein each of said at least one sensor comprises at least one masking member for masking sensor input of said sensor, and

wherein in the step of automatically adjusting a sensor coverage area of said at least one sensor, said adjusting comprises controlling the at least one masking member of each of said at least one sensor in order to adjust the sensor coverage area of the sensor.

8. Method as claimed in claim 1, wherein in the step of automatically adjusting a sensor coverage area of said at least one sensor, each sensor of said at least one sensor performes the step of:

adjusting a sensor coverage area of the sensor based on information on a position of the sensor relative to at least one other sensor of the installed building service sensors.

9. Method as claimed in claim 1, wherein each of said at least one sensor comprises wireless communication means, the method further comprising the step of:

each of said at least one sensor establishing a wireless communication between said sensor and at least one other building service device of the building service system via the wireless communication means of the sensor to determine said position of the sensor relative to said at least one other building service device.

10. Method as claimed in claim 1, wherein said installed building service sensors comprise any one or more of presence detection sensors, movement sensors, temperature sensors, and daylight sensors.

11. Method as claimed in claim 1, wherein said installed building service sensors comprise optical sensors.

12. Building service system, comprising a group of first building service sensors, at least one sensor of the group of first sensors comprising a sensor coverage adjusting unit for adjusting a sensor coverage area of the sensor;

wherein each sensor coverage adjusting unit is adapted for automatically adjusting, in a state of the system with the first sensors being installed, the sensor coverage area of the respective installed sensor based on information on a position of the installed sensor relative to at least one other installed sensor of the group of first sensors.

13. Building service system as claimed in claim 12, further comprising at least two building service supply devices,

wherein each sensor of the group of first sensors is adapted to control at least one of the building service supply devices that is assigned to the sensor.

14. Building service system as claimed in claim 13, further comprising at least one second sensor,

wherein each sensor of the group of first sensors is adapted to control said at least one building service supply device that is assigned to said sensor to operate in a first operation mode, and

wherein the at least one second building service sensor is adapted to control at least one of the building service supply devices, which is assigned to at least one sensor of the group of first sensors, to operate in a second operation mode.

15. Building service system as claimed in claim 14, wherein, in a state of the system with the first sensors and the at least one second sensor being installed, a sensor coverage area of the second sensor includes sensor coverage areas of at least two sensors of the group of first sensors.