Remote monitoring and control of LED based street lights
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1. A method for remotely collecting information via a light emitting diode (LED) based street light, comprising:
- collecting the information via the LED based street light from a utility meter coupled to a home,wherein the LED based street light is a part of an Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI);
establishing a two-way communication path via a communication module to a central office,wherein the communication module is coupled to the LED based street light, andwherein the LED based street light comprises a plurality of independently controllable groups of LEDs;
sending the information from the utility meter to the central office via the two-way communication path,wherein said two-way communication path traverses the AMI;
receiving, at the communication module, at least one a first control signal from the central office to control the utility meter and a second control signal to control the LED based street light,wherein the at least one first control signal turns off the utility meter and the second control signal turns on only a subset of the plurality of independently controllable groups of LEDs; and
sending, by the communication module, the first control signal to the utility meter to turn off the utility meter.
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Abstract
The present invention is directed to a method for remotely collecting metering information via a light emitting diode (LED) based street light. In one embodiment, the method includes collecting information from a utility meter coupled to a home, establishing a two-way communication path via a communication module to a central office, wherein the communication module is coupled to the LED based street light and sending the information from the utility meter to the central office via the two-way communication path.
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1. A method for remotely collecting information via a light emitting diode (LED) based street light, comprising:
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collecting the information via the LED based street light from a utility meter coupled to a home, wherein the LED based street light is a part of an Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI); establishing a two-way communication path via a communication module to a central office, wherein the communication module is coupled to the LED based street light, and wherein the LED based street light comprises a plurality of independently controllable groups of LEDs; sending the information from the utility meter to the central office via the two-way communication path, wherein said two-way communication path traverses the AMI; receiving, at the communication module, at least one a first control signal from the central office to control the utility meter and a second control signal to control the LED based street light, wherein the at least one first control signal turns off the utility meter and the second control signal turns on only a subset of the plurality of independently controllable groups of LEDs; and sending, by the communication module, the first control signal to the utility meter to turn off the utility meter. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
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7. A method for extending a mesh network, comprising:
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collecting information from a plurality of utility meters in the mesh network; receiving the information at a first light emitting diode (LED) based street light having a communication module from the plurality of utility meters in the mesh network, wherein the first LED based street light comprises a plurality of independently controllable groups of LEDs, and wherein the first LED based street light is a part of an Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI); forwarding the information from the first LED based street light via the communication module to a take-off point LED based street light having a communication module that has established a two-way communication path to a central office via one or more intermediate LED based street lights each having a respective communication module, wherein the take-off point LED based street light collects information from a plurality of different mesh networks to send to the central office, wherein one or more of the plurality of different mesh networks do not have a respective take-off point LED based street light, and wherein the take-off point LED based street light is a part of the AMI; receiving, at the communication module of the first LED based street light, a first control signal from the central office to control one of the plurality of utility meters and a second control signal to control the first LED based street light, wherein the first control signal turns off the one of the plurality of utility meters and the second control signal turns on only a subset of the plurality of independently controllable groups of LEDs; and sending, by the communication module of the first LED based street light, the first control signal to the one of the plurality of utility meters to turn off the one of the plurality of utility meters. - View Dependent Claims (8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
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14. A method for extending a mesh network, comprising:
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collecting a first information from a plurality of utility meters in a first mesh network, wherein the first mesh network does not have a take-off point light emitting diode (LED) based street light in communication with a gateway to access a public communication network; receiving the first information at a first LED based street light having a first communication module from the plurality of utility meters in the first mesh network, wherein the first LED based street light comprises a plurality of independently controllable groups of LEDs, and wherein the first LED based street light is a part of an Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI); forwarding the first information to a second LED based street light having a second communication module, wherein the second LED based street light is a part of the AMI; collecting a second information from a plurality of utility meters in a second mesh network; combining the first information and the second information; forwarding the first information and the second information from the second LED based street light via the second communication module to a take-off point LED based street light having a communication module that has established a two-way communication path to a central office, wherein the take-off point LED based street light is a part of the AMI; receiving, at the communication module of the first LED based street light, a first control signal from the central office to control one of the plurality of utility meters and a second control signal to control the first LED based street light, wherein the at least one first control signal turns off the one of the plurality of utility meters and the second control signal turns on only a subset of the plurality of independently controllable groups of LEDs; and sending, by the communication module of the first LED based street light, the at least one first control signal to the one of the plurality of utility meters to turn off the one of the plurality of utility meters. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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