LIGHTING SYSTEM AND CONTROL UNIT FOR SAME

• US 20150076996A1
• Filed: 04/10/2013
• Published: 03/19/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 04/12/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Zumtobel Lighting GmbH (Zumtobel Group AG)
• Original Assignee: Zumtobel Lighting GmbH (Zumtobel Group AG)
• Inventors: Flatz, Daniel
• Application Number:
  US14/391,595
• Publication Number:
  US 20150076996A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 315/158
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 47/11 by determining the brightness or colour temperature of ambient light
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 47/115 by determining the presence or movement of objects or living beings
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 47/18 via data-bus transmission
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 47/19 via wireless transmission
• CPC Class Codes: Y02B 20/40 Control techniques providing energy savings, e.g. smart controller or presence detection

Abstract

A lighting system has at least one control unit which is designed to transmit control instructions, in particular control instructions corresponding to the DALI and/or DSI standard, to a plurality of operating devices assigned thereto, wherein the control instructions are generated on the basis of control information fed to the control unit. The control unit receives the control information in wireless fashion.

Claims

1. A lighting system having at least one control unit that is designed to transmit to a plurality of operating devices associated therewith control commands, particularly control commands based on the DALI and/or DSI standard, wherein the control commands are generated on the basis of control information that is supplied to the control unit, wherein the control unit receives the control information wirelessly.

2. The lighting system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the control unit actuates the operating devices associated therewith in a standard manner.

3. The lighting system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the control unit is connected to at least one operating device associated therewith by means of a data line.

4. The lighting system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the control unit transmits to at least one operating device associated therewith the control commands wirelessly.

5. The lighting system as claimed in claim 1, wherein said system has a plurality of control units that each have an associated group of operating devices, wherein at least some of the control information supplied to a control unit also comes from one of the other control units.

6. The lighting system as claimed in claim 1, wherein at least some of the control information supplied to the control unit comes from a sensor, particularly from a presence or brightness sensor.

7. The lighting system as claimed in claim 6, wherein the sensor has an independent power supply, particularly a battery or a solar cell.

8. The lighting system as claimed in claim 1, wherein at least some of the control information supplied to the control unit comes from an operator control element that can be operated by a user.

9. The lighting system as claimed in claim 1, wherein said lighting system has a plurality of operator control elements, wherein at least some of the operator control elements are designed to wirelessely interchange information concerning the control information transmitted to the control unit.

10. The lighting system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the wireless communication of the control unit is effected on the basis of Bluetooth communication, preferably based on the Bluetooth standard 4.0 or by means of Bluetooth low energy.

11. A control unit for use in a lighting system, wherein the control unit is designed to transmit to a plurality of operating devices associated therewith control commands, particularly control commands based on the DALI and/or DSI standard, wherein the control commands are generated on the basis of control information that is supplied to the control unit wherein the control unit has means for wirelessly receiving the control information.

12. A method for actuating operating devices in a lighting system using a control unit that to transmit to a plurality of operating devices associated therewith control commands, particularly control commands based on the DALI and/or DSI standard, wherein the control commands are generated on the basis of control information that is supplied to the control unit wherein the control information is transmitted to the control unit wirelessly.