APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SCHEDULE BASED OPERATION OF A LUMINAIRE
0 Assignments
0 Petitions
Accused Products
Abstract
An illumination system verifies controls the operation of a luminaire without the use of any photometric data. The illumination system uses data indicative of a current time, date or latitude to determine one or more aspects of a solar event. Such aspects can include a scheduled, predicted or expected time of occurrence of the scheduled solar event. Responsive to the determination of a scheduled, predicted or expected time of occurrence of the scheduled solar event, a control subsystem can adjust the luminous output of a light source.
37 Citations
41 Claims
-
1-20. -20. (canceled)
-
21. A luminaire, comprising:
-
at least one light source; at least one luminaire processor operatively coupled to the at least one light source; at least one luminaire transceiver operatively coupled to the at least one luminaire processor and to at least one data communications channel; and at least one luminaire nontransitory processor-readable storage medium operatively coupled to the at least one luminaire processor and which stores at least one of data or instructions which, when executed by the at least one luminaire processor, cause the at least one luminaire processor to; receive, via the at least one luminaire transceiver, geolocation information from an external device over the at least one data communications channel, the geolocation information indicative of a geographical location of the external device when the external device is positioned proximate the luminaire; and store the received geolocation information in the at least one nontransitory processor-readable storage medium as luminaire geolocation information for the luminaire, the luminaire geolocation information indicative of a position of the luminaire on a surface of the Earth. - View Dependent Claims (22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30)
-
-
31. A method of operation for a luminaire, the method comprising:
-
receiving, by at least one luminaire transceiver of the luminaire, geolocation information from an external device over at least one data communications channel, the geolocation information indicative of a geographical location of the external device when the external device is positioned proximate the luminaire; and storing, by at least one luminaire processor of the luminaire, the received geolocation information in at least one nontransitory processor-readable storage medium of the luminaire as luminaire geolocation information for the luminaire, the luminaire geolocation information indicative of a position of the luminaire on a surface of the Earth. - View Dependent Claims (32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40)
-
-
41. A luminaire, comprising:
-
at least one light source; and a control subsystem to control a supply of power to the at least one light source, the control subsystem including; at least one nontransitory processor-readable storage medium; at least one communications interface to communicate with at least one external device; at least one processor communicably coupled to the at least one communications interface and the at least one nontransitory processor-readable storage medium, the at least one processor; receives, by at least one communications interface, geolocation information from an external device; determines at least one aspect of a scheduled solar event based at least in part on the received geolocation information; and generates at least one output signal having at least one characteristic indicative of the determined at least one aspect of the scheduled solar event; and at least one power controller operatively coupled to the at least one processor, the at least one power controller selectively controls a supply of power to the at least one light source responsive to the at least one characteristic of the at least one output signal.
-
Specification