BUILDING EQUIPMENT-BASED COMMUNICATION SYSTEM

• US 20170325322A1
• Filed: 12/16/2015
• Published: 11/09/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 12/19/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Tridonic GmbH & Co. KG (Zumtobel Group AG)
• Original Assignee: Tridonic GmbH & Co. KG (Zumtobel Group AG)
• Inventors: Bachmann, Johannes, Lochmann, Frank, Marte, Patrick, Moosmann, Florian, Oblak, Daniel, Troppacher, Rainer
• Granted Patent: US 10,375,802 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/403 with centralised control, e.g. polling
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0853 by actively collecting configuration information or by backing up configuration information
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 47/19 via wireless transmission

Abstract

The invention relates to a building equipment-based communication system (1) comprising at least one building equipment-based device as a master unit (20), in particular a light fixture, to which at least one slave unit (13, 14), in particular a sensor and/or actuator, can be connected via a network, preferably in a wireless manner; the slave unit (13) is designed to communicate with the master unit (10) via the network connection either directly or indirectly by way of other slave units (14); and the master unit (10) is designed to send, via a communication interface (18), information received from the at least one slave unit (13,14).

Claims

1. A building equipment-based communication system (1) having at least one building equipment-based device as a master unit (10), comprising a light fixture, wherein at least one slave unit (13, 14), comprising a sensor and/or actuator, is connected to the master unit (10), through a network, wherein the slave unit (13) is configured to communicate, directly, or indirectly by means of other slave units (14), with the master unit (10) via the network connection, and the master unit (10) is configured to transmit data received from the at least one slave unit (13, 14) via a communication interface (18).

2. The building equipment-based communication system (1) according to claim 1, wherein the master unit (10) is configured to transmit data received via the communication interface (18) to slave units (13, 14) connected thereto;

and the master unit (10) is configured to establish communication connections between slave units (11, 12) connected thereto; and

the master unit (10) is configured to store data regarding communication connections to each slave unit (13, 14) connected to it; and

the master unit (10) is configured to establish a communication connection for communicating with another master unit (40) indirectly or directly, with a central processing unit, in particular ad hoc.

3. The building equipment-based communication system (1) according to claim 1 wherein the at least one slave unit (13) is configured to establish an ad hoc, radio communication connection with the master unit (10) and at least one further slave unit (14);

each slave unit and each master unit are configured to store information regarding the unit from which a message has been received, and the unit to which the message was sent; and

each slave unit (14) that has received a message from another slave unit (13) is configured to forward this message, and to store information regarding the slave unit from which the message was received and/or the slave unit to which the message has been forwarded.

4. The building equipment-based communication system (1) according to claim 1 wherein the master unit (10) stores a slave unit (14) for a slave unit (13) dedicated to it, via which the dedicated slave unit (13) can be reached;

and the at least one slave unit (13, 14) transmits a message regarding a detected event.

5. The building equipment-based communication system (1) according to claim 2 wherein the master units (10, 40) are connected to one another by a data bus.

6. The building equipment-based communication system (1) according to claim 1 wherein the at least one slave unit (13, 14) is configured to transmit or receive its configuration data and/or data acquired by it regarding the detected event to or from the master unit (10);

the master unit (10) is configured to store and send configuration data and data regarding the detected event of each slave unit (13, 14) connected to it, and/or transmit configuration data to each slave unit (13, 14) upon receiving a query signal.

7. The building equipment-based communication system (1) according to claim 1 wherein the slave unit (13, 14) is configured to transmit a detection message to the master unit (10) when a detection event has been detected and wherein the master unit (10) is configured to transmit/forward the detection message and/or a message dedicated thereto, by means of the communication interface (18);

and that at least one master unit (10) is configured to receive transmitted configuration parameters by means of an input device, based on which setting parameters for the master unit (10) and/or the at least one slave unit (13, 14) can be set, and wherein the master unit (10) behaves in different ways depending on the setting parameters upon receiving the detection message.

8. The building equipment-based communication system (1) according to claim 1 wherein the master unit (10) is a building equipment-based device, comprising a light fixture having an operating unit for operating an LED lamp, and the at least one slave unit (13, 14) comprising at least one of:

a motion sensor, smoke detector, humidity sensor, temperature sensor, light sensor, access monitoring sensor, rolling gate motor, blind motor, and a heating system.

9. The building equipment-based communication system (1) according to claim 1 wherein the communication interface (18) transmits messages by means of IP protocols comprising at least one of email, messenger services, WhatsApp, and SMS.

10. The building equipment-based communication system (1) according to claim 1 wherein the master unit (10) is configured to selectively transmit the data received from the slave unit (13, 14) to different users or master units, depending on a detection event and depending on the type of slave unit (13, 14).

11. A control device (10) for an actuator (11) comprising one of lamps or a sensor (12) in the field of building equipment, said control device (10) being configured for wireless addressed communication wherein the control device (10) has:

an interface (19) for wireless communication with a second control device (40), and

a control circuit for forwarding data received from the second control device (40) to a third control device, having an address in the data.