Configuring a network connected lighting system

• US 9,603,225 B2
• Filed: 03/31/2016
• Issued: 03/21/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 03/31/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Signify Holding B.V. (Signify N.V.)
• Original Assignee: Philips Lighting BV (Koninklijke Philips N.V.)
• Inventors: Thijssen, Paulus Thomas Arnoldus
• Primary Examiner(s): Philogene, Haissa
• Application Number:
  US15/086,668
• Publication Number:
  US 20160295669A1
• Time in Patent Office: 355 Days
• Field of Search: 315/312, 315/313, 315/314, 315/318, 315/307, 315/294, 315/297
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 47/18 via data-bus transmission
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 47/19 via wireless transmission
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 47/195 the transmission using visible or infrared light

Abstract

A lighting system device for a pre-configured lighting system (111), wherein the lighting system device is coupled directly with at least one further lighting system device in the pre-configured lighting system (111) based on configuration data associated with the lighting system device and the at least one further lighting system device, the lighting system device further configured to: store the configuration data associated with the lighting system device and the at least one further lighting system device such that it is not deleted on performing a reset; receive a reset input; cascade the reset input to any coupled lighting system devices within the pre-configured lighting system package; reset the lighting system device; and determine and register the lighting system device on a central control unit (101), such that the central control unit (101) is configured to access the configuration data and restore a pre-configured lighting system functionality.

Claims

1. A lighting system device for a pre-configured lighting system, wherein the lighting system device is coupled directly with at least one further lighting system device in the pre-configured lighting system based on configuration data associated with the lighting system device and the at least one further lighting system device, the lighting system device further configured to:

store the configuration data associated with the lighting system device and the at least one further lighting system device such that it is not deleted on performing a reset;

receive a reset input;

cascade the reset input to any coupled lighting system devices within the pre-configured lighting system package;

reset the lighting system device; and

determine and register the lighting system device on a central control unit, such that the central control unit is configured to access the configuration data and restore a pre-configured lighting system functionality.

2. The lighting system device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the lighting system device configured to store the configuration data is configured to store the configuration data on an external server.

3. The lighting system device as claimed in claim 2, wherein the lighting system device is configured to communicate the configuration data to a user equipment, wherein the user equipment is configured to communicate the configuration data to the external server.

4. The lighting system device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the lighting system device configured to store the configuration data is configured to store the configuration data within a portion of a memory which is masked from being deleted on the lighting system device being reset.

5. The lighting system device as claimed in claim 4, wherein the lighting system device is further configured to:

receive a request from the central control unit for the configuration data; and

generate a response to the request, the response comprising the stored configuration data; and

transmit to the central control unit the response such that the central control unit has access to the configuration data.

6. The lighting system device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the reset input is a physical input and/or a received reset command message.

7. The lighting system device as claimed claim 1, wherein the lighting system device configured to cascade the reset input to any coupled lighting system devices within the pre-configured lighting system package is configured to:

determine any directly coupled lighting system devices;

generate a reset command message; and

transmit the reset command message to each of the directly coupled lighting system devices to cascade the reset input.

8. The lighting system device as claimed claim 1, wherein the lighting system device is configured to mask any further received reset inputs after receiving the first reset input for a determined period.

11. A networked lighting system comprising:

at least two lighting system devices as claimed in claim 1; and

the central control unit.

9. A central control unit for configuring a pre-configured lighting system lighting system device, the central control unit configured to:

register a reset lighting system device at the central control unit;

request configuration data associated with the lighting system device and at least one further lighting system device;

receive the configuration data; and

generate a logical link between the lighting system device and at least one further lighting system device to restore a pre-configured lighting system functionality between the lighting system device and at least one further lighting system device.

10. The central control unit as claimed in claim 9, wherein the central control unit configured to request configuration data associated with the lighting system device and at least one further lighting system device is further configured to generate and transmit to an external server a request for configuration data associated with the lighting system device, and receive the configuration data within a response to the request from the external server.

12. A method for configuring a lighting system device, the lighting system device configured to operate as part of a pre-configured lighting system, wherein the lighting system device is coupled directly with at least one further lighting system device in the pre-configured lighting system based on configuration data associated with the lighting system device and the at least one further lighting system device, the method comprising:

storing the configuration data associated with the lighting system device and the at least one further lighting system device such that it is not deleted on performing a reset;

receiving a reset input;

cascading the reset input to any coupled lighting system devices within the pre-configured lighting system package;

resetting the lighting system device; and

determining and registering the lighting system device on a central control unit, such that the central control unit is configured to access the configuration data and restore a pre-configured lighting system functionality.

13. The method as claimed in claim 12, wherein storing the configuration data comprises storing the configuration data on an external server.

14. The method as claimed in claim 12, wherein storing the configuration data comprises storing the configuration data within a portion of a memory which is masked from being deleted when the lighting system device is reset.

15. A computer program for controlling a lighting system device for a pre-configured lighting system, wherein the lighting system device is coupled directly with at least one further lighting system device in the pre-configured lighting system based on configuration data associated with the lighting system device and the at least one further lighting system device, and the computer program comprising code embodied on one or more computer-readable storage media and configured so as when run on the lighting system device to perform operations of:

storing the configuration data associated with the lighting system device and the at least one further lighting system device such that it is not deleted on performing a reset;

receiving a reset input;

cascading the reset input to any coupled lighting system devices within the pre-configured lighting system package;

resetting the lighting system device; and

determining and registering the lighting system device on a central control unit, such that the central control unit is configured to access the configuration data and restore a pre-configured lighting system functionality.