System and method for streetlight monitoring diagnostics

• US 8,140,276 B2
• Filed: 02/27/2009
• Issued: 03/20/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 02/27/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: ABL IP Holding LLC (Acuity Brands, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: ABL IP Holding LLC (Acuity Brands, Inc.)
• Inventors: Walters, Jeff, Dorogi, Michael, Zigovszki, Szabolcs, Cristian, Voicu, Ticus, Ion
• Primary Examiner(s): KUNDU, SUJOY K
• Application Number:
  US12/395,191
• Publication Number:
  US 20090222223A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,117 Days
• Field of Search: 702 57- 60, 702/64, 702/65, 315129-136
• US Class Current: 702/58
• CPC Class Codes: G01R 31/44 Testing lamps
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 47/19 via wireless transmission
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 47/22 with communication between the lamps and a central unit
• CPC Class Codes: Y02B 20/40 Control techniques providing energy savings, e.g. smart controller or presence detection

Abstract

One or more example diagnostics may be implemented as part of an intelligent luminaire manager or other radio frequency (RF) device that is in communication with an equipment or fixture such as a luminaire. Example diagnostics can determine a status such as a fixture malfunction, a cycling condition, a miswiring configuration, or another condition. The determined status can be wirelessly transmitted from the intelligent luminaire manager or other radio frequency device to a network server via a network. The network may be a network of intelligent luminaire managers and/or RF devices.

Claims

1. An intelligent luminaire manager, comprising:

a first voltage sensor for measuring a line voltage received by the intelligent luminaire manager;

a second voltage sensor for measuring a load voltage associated with a luminaire;

a controller configured to receive voltage information corresponding to voltages measured by the first and second voltage sensors;

a luminaire diagnostic program stored in a memory of the controller, wherein the luminaire diagnostic program is operative to;

compare the line voltage to the load voltage; and

determine a miswiring configuration associated with one or both of the intelligent luminaire manager and the luminaire based on the comparison of the line voltage to the load voltage.

2. The intelligent luminaire manager of claim 1, wherein the miswiring configuration is determined based on the comparison of the line voltage to the load voltage under different command states associated with the luminaire.

3. The intelligent luminaire manager of claim 1, further comprising a current sensor for measuring current provided to the luminaire, wherein the controller is configured to receive current information corresponding to the current measured by the current sensor, wherein the luminaire diagnostic program is further operative to:

compute a power drawn by the luminaire based upon the load voltage and the current;

determine the miswiring configuration associated with one or both of the intelligent luminaire manager and the luminaire based at least in part on whether the line voltage exceeds the load voltage by a first predetermined amount and whether the computed power exceeds a second predetermined amount.

4. The intelligent luminaire manager of claim 1, wherein the miswiring configuration is one or more of (i) the intelligent luminaire manager being connected to a first power supply line L1 and a second power supply line L2 instead of the first power supply line L1 and Neutral, (ii) the luminaire being connected between an output of the intelligent luminaire manager and the second power supply line L2 instead of between the output of the intelligent luminaire manager and Neutral, or (iii) the intelligent luminaire manager being connected to the first power supply line L1 and Neutral in a reverse configuration.

5. The intelligent luminaire manager of claim 1, wherein the miswiring configuration is determined based upon whether the line voltage exceeds the load voltage by a predetermined amount, wherein the predetermined amount is a percentage of the line voltage.

6. The intelligent luminaire manager of claim 1, wherein the load voltage is (i) a voltage across a relay associated with the luminaire, or (ii) a voltage from a load leg of the luminaire to neutral.

7. The intelligent luminaire manager of claim 1, wherein an indication of the determined miswiring configuration is wirelessly transmitted to a network server via a network of networked intelligent luminaire managers.