Control of network lighting systems
First Claim
1. A method for controlling a networked lighting system comprising a plurality of controllable luminaries, comprising the steps of:
- selecting several controllable luminaries of the networked lighting system;
combining control information for each one of the selected luminaries to a set of control information;
selecting at least one predetermined function for compressing the set of control information, wherein the at least one predetermined function has as input values luminary information for the selected luminaries and as output values the set of control information for each one of the selected luminaries;
creating a multicast message addressed to the selected luminaries wherein the multicast message comprises a features field identifying the selected at least one predetermined function; and
transmitting the created multicast message;
wherein the multicast message is receivable by the selected luminaries to set lighting levels of the selected luminaries to individual, differentiated values based on the selected predetermined function contained in the multicast message.
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Abstract
The invention relates to the control of networked lighting systems, particularly large scale networked lighting systems, and more specifically to an efficient transmission of messages to control luminaries of a networked lighting system. A basic idea of the invention is to provide an efficient and flexible multicast, particularly group cast message that addresses several or a group of luminaires, and that can control the addressed luminaries in an efficient way by compressing the distributed light settings using a function in order to reduce the communicational overhead. An embodiment of the invention relates to a method for controlling a networked lighting system comprising the steps of—selecting several controllable luminaries of the networked lighting system (S10), —combining control information for each one of the selected luminaries to a set of information control information (S12), —selecting at least one predetermined function for compressing the set of control information by associating an input related to a selected controllable luminary to the control information for the selected controllable luminary from the set of control information (S14), —creating a multicast message addressed to the selected luminaries and comprising information regarding the selected predetermined function (S16), and—transmitting the created multicast message (S18).
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1. A method for controlling a networked lighting system comprising a plurality of controllable luminaries, comprising the steps of:
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selecting several controllable luminaries of the networked lighting system; combining control information for each one of the selected luminaries to a set of control information; selecting at least one predetermined function for compressing the set of control information, wherein the at least one predetermined function has as input values luminary information for the selected luminaries and as output values the set of control information for each one of the selected luminaries; creating a multicast message addressed to the selected luminaries wherein the multicast message comprises a features field identifying the selected at least one predetermined function; and transmitting the created multicast message; wherein the multicast message is receivable by the selected luminaries to set lighting levels of the selected luminaries to individual, differentiated values based on the selected predetermined function contained in the multicast message. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15)
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12. A lighting controller for a networked lighting system comprising:
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a processor being configured for; selecting several controllable luminaries of the networked lighting system; combining control information for each one of the selected luminaries to a set of control information; selecting at least one predetermined function for compressing the set of control information, wherein the at least one predetermined function has as input values, luminary information for the selected luminaries and as output values the set of control information for each one of the selected luminaries; creating a multicast message addressed to the selected luminaries wherein the multicast message comprises a features field identifying the selected at least one predetermined function; and transmitting the created multicast message, and a transmitter for transmitting the multicast message over a network of a networked lighting system, wherein the multicast message comprises a features field identifying the selected predetermined function, wherein the multicast message is receivable by the selected luminaries to set lighting levels of the selected luminaries to individual, differentiated values based on the selected predetermined function contained in the multicast message.
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