Lighting System Control and Synthetic Event Generation
First Claim
1. A system for synthesized event generation comprising:
- an event synthesizer for synthesizing an event; and
a lighting control system comprising;
a lighting fixture containing one or more lighting elements; and
a lighting-fixture management unit included with the lighting-fixture;
wherein the event synthesizer is configured to calculate that an event has occurred, generate a synthetic event corresponding to the event that is calculated to occur, and send a signal to the lighting control system to instruct the lighting control system to respond to the synthetic event as if the event has occurred.
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Abstract
Systems and methods are described for the control of lighting systems at individual light-fixture, local, regional, and larger-geographical-area levels that also distribute electrical power to consumers. One implementation comprises a hierarchical lighting-control system including an automated network-control center that may control up to many millions of individual lighting fixtures and lighting elements, regional routers interconnected to the network-control center or network-control centers by public communications networks, each of which controls hundreds to thousands of individual light fixtures, and light-management units, interconnected to regional routers by radio-frequency communications and/or power-line communications, each of which controls components within a lighting fixture, including lighting elements, drivers, sensors, and other devices. Systems and methods of using synthetic events for calibration and control of lighting systems are also described.
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33 Claims
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1. A system for synthesized event generation comprising:
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an event synthesizer for synthesizing an event; and a lighting control system comprising; a lighting fixture containing one or more lighting elements; and a lighting-fixture management unit included with the lighting-fixture; wherein the event synthesizer is configured to calculate that an event has occurred, generate a synthetic event corresponding to the event that is calculated to occur, and send a signal to the lighting control system to instruct the lighting control system to respond to the synthetic event as if the event has occurred. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22)
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23. A non-transitory machine-readable medium for controlling an output of a lighting fixture with a system for synthesized event generation, the system for synthesized event generation comprising:
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an event synthesizer for synthesizing an event; and a lighting control system comprising; a lighting fixture containing one or more lighting elements; and a lighting-fixture management unit included with the lighting-fixture, the machine-readable medium comprising machine instructions for; calculating that an event has occurred with the event synthesizer based on predetermined information, and sending a signal from the event synthesizer to the lighting control system signaling that the event has occurred
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24. A method for controlling an output of a lighting fixture with a system for synthesized event generation, the system for synthesized event generation comprising:
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an event synthesizer for synthesizing an event; and a lighting control system comprising; a lighting fixture containing one or more lighting elements; and a lighting-fixture management unit included with the lighting-fixture, the method comprising; calculating that an event has occurred with the event synthesizer based on predetermined information, and sending a signal from the event synthesizer to the lighting control system signaling that the event has occurred. - View Dependent Claims (25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33)
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