Luminaire with ambient sensing and autonomous control capabilities
First Claim
1. An illumination system, comprising:
- a luminaire including at least one light source disposed at least partially in a housing;
at least one motion sensor proximate the housing that provides a signal indicative of a velocity of an object which is remote from the luminaire and external to the luminaire;
a controller communicably coupled to the at least one light source and the at least one motion sensor, the controller includes defined logic to autonomously operate the at least one light source responsive to the signal indicative of the velocity of the object provided by the at least one motion sensor; and
a communications transceiver communicably coupled to the controller to communicate with at least one other luminaire;
wherein, responsive to receipt of the signal indicative of the velocity of the object provided by the at least one motion sensor, the controller selectively autonomously communicates at least one signal via the communications transceiver to at least one selected recipient luminaire in physical proximity to the luminaire which causes the at least one selected recipient luminaire to control the illumination thereof based at least in part on the velocity of the object to provide illumination for the object.
1 Assignment
0 Petitions
Accused Products
Abstract
A number of luminaires can be communicably coupled and networked. Some or all of the luminaires may be equipped with a number of sensors including motion sensors. Upon detecting motion of an object in the vicinity of a luminaire, the luminaire can increase the luminous output of the lighting subsystem in the luminaire and communicate a targeted or broadcast output signal to some or all of the remaining luminaires in the network. The output signal may variously contain data indicative of one or more parameters related to motion of the object (direction of travel, velocity, etc.) or one or more parameters related to the increased luminous output of the luminaire. Responsive to the receipt of an output signal generated by another luminaire, the luminaire may autonomously adjust the luminous output of the lighting subsystems responsive to an event detected by the other luminaire.
-
Citations
63 Claims
-
1. An illumination system, comprising:
-
a luminaire including at least one light source disposed at least partially in a housing; at least one motion sensor proximate the housing that provides a signal indicative of a velocity of an object which is remote from the luminaire and external to the luminaire; a controller communicably coupled to the at least one light source and the at least one motion sensor, the controller includes defined logic to autonomously operate the at least one light source responsive to the signal indicative of the velocity of the object provided by the at least one motion sensor; and a communications transceiver communicably coupled to the controller to communicate with at least one other luminaire; wherein, responsive to receipt of the signal indicative of the velocity of the object provided by the at least one motion sensor, the controller selectively autonomously communicates at least one signal via the communications transceiver to at least one selected recipient luminaire in physical proximity to the luminaire which causes the at least one selected recipient luminaire to control the illumination thereof based at least in part on the velocity of the object to provide illumination for the object. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 49)
-
-
13. An illumination system comprising:
-
a luminaire including at least one light source disposed at least partially in a housing; a controller with defined logic to selectively autonomously operate the at least one light source to provide illumination for an object responsive to a signal indicative of a velocity of the object remote from the luminaire, the signal indicative of the velocity of the object provided by at least one other luminaire; a communications transceiver communicably coupled to the controller to communicate with the at least one other luminaire; and at least one sensor communicably coupled to the controller and physically coupled to the housing, to detect the occurrence of at least one event external to the luminaire and to selectively autonomously operate the at least one light source responsive to the detection of the at least one event external to the luminaire. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26)
-
-
27. A method of controlling a plurality of luminaires, comprising:
-
receiving from another of the plurality of luminaires at a controller via a communicably coupled communications transceiver at least one signal including information indicative of at least velocity of an object which is remote from a luminaire and external to the luminaire, the luminaire at least partially housing the controller and the communications transceiver; autonomously adjusting by the controller a luminous output of at least one light source to provide illumination for the object in response to the receipt of the information indicative of at least the velocity of the object; and autonomously communicating via the communications transceiver communicably coupled to the controller at least one signal including information indicative of at least one of;
the velocity of the object or the luminous output of the luminaire. - View Dependent Claims (28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48)
-
-
50. A method of controlling a plurality of luminaires, comprising:
-
communicably coupling each of a plurality of luminaires to at least one other of the plurality of luminaires to provide at least one communication path between any two luminaires of all of the plurality of luminaires, where there are at least three luminaires in the plurality of luminaires; receiving at a controller via a communicably coupled communications transceiver at least one signal including information indicative of at least velocity of an object external to a luminaire that houses the controller and the communications transceiver; autonomously adjusting by the controller a luminous output of at least one light source in the luminaire to provide illumination for the object in response to the receipt of the information indicative of at least the velocity of the object; and autonomously communicating by the controller via the communications transceiver the at least one signal to at least one other recipient luminaire in the plurality of luminaires, the at least one signal including information indicative of at least one of;
at least the velocity of the object or the luminous output of the luminaire. - View Dependent Claims (51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60)
-
-
61. A method of controlling a plurality of luminaires, comprising:
-
apportioning the plurality of luminaires into a number of cells based on at least one of;
an identifier assigned to each of the respective luminaires in the plurality of luminaires or a physical location of each of the respective selected luminaires in the plurality of luminaires, each of the number of cells including at least one luminaire;directly or indirectly communicably coupling each of the luminaires within a cell with all other luminaires in the cell; directly communicably coupling at least one bridge luminaire in each cell with at least one other bridge luminaire in a different cell, wherein any one of the plurality of luminaires in a first cell is communicably coupled with any other of the plurality of luminaires in a second cell via the direct communicable coupling between a bridge luminaire in the first cell and a bridge luminaire in the second cell; receiving at a luminaire in a first cell at least one signal including information indicative of at least one motion-related parameter of an object external to the luminaire; autonomously adjusting a luminous output of the luminaire in response to the receipt of the information indicative of the at least one motion-related parameter of the object; and autonomously communicating at least one signal to at least one other recipient luminaire in the plurality of luminaires, the at least one signal including information indicative of at least one of;
the at least one motion-related parameter of the object or the luminous output of the luminaire. - View Dependent Claims (62, 63)
-
Specification