Illumination system with an automatic light identification system for location-dependent lighting configuration, and a method for operating an illumination system

• US 9,635,738 B2
• Filed: 12/17/2014
• Issued: 04/25/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 12/18/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Zumtobel Lighting GmbH (Zumtobel Group AG)
• Original Assignee: Zumtobel Lighting GmbH (Zumtobel Group AG)
• Inventors: Joppi, Rene, Mayr, Gregor
• Primary Examiner(s): LE, DON P
• Application Number:
  US15/102,432
• Publication Number:
  US 20160360595A1
• Time in Patent Office: 860 Days
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 47/105 in response to determined parameters
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 47/175 by remote control
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 47/19 via wireless transmission

Abstract

An illumination system which contains a mobile operating device, a plurality of lights, and a central control device. The control device is designed to control the lights. The operating device includes a position-sensing unit for determining the position of the operating device and additionally contains a display unit on which the positions of the lights and the position of the operating device can be displayed in combination. The operating device thus allows a user to select and operate the lights that are displayed. The lights are controlled using the central control device according to the user'"'"'s input.

Claims

1. An illumination system with a mobile operating device, comprising:

a plurality of lights and a central control device,

wherein the central control device is configured to control the lights,

wherein the operating device has a position-sensing unit which is configured to sense the position of the operating device,

in that the operating device has a display unit which is configured to display positions of at least some of the lights and the position of the operating device in combination, and

in that the operating device is configured

to enable a user to perform a selection and operation of at least the displayed part of the lights by means of the display unit, and

to control the lights by means of the central control device according to the operation by the user.

2. The illumination system as claimed in claim 1,

wherein the illumination system has a position database which is configured to retain positions of the lights, wherein the position database is preferably part of the operating device or of the central control device, and

in that the operating device is configured to read the positions of the lights from the position database.

3. The illumination system as claimed in claim 2,

wherein the lights have position memories which are configured to store a position of the respective light.

4. The illumination system as claimed in claim 3,

wherein the operating device has a writing unit,

the operating device is configured, in the event of an initialization of a light,

to determine a current position of the operating device by means of the position-sensing unit, and

to write a position of the operating device to the position memory of the respective light by means of the writing unit, and

the light is configured, in the event of an initialization of the respective light, to transmit a position of the light stored in the position memory of the light to the position database.

5. The illumination system as claimed in claim 3,

wherein the position memories are embedded in RFID chips, and

the writing unit is an RFID chip writer.

6. The illumination system as claimed in claim 1,

wherein the operating device has a wireless communication interface,

the central control device has a wireless communication interface, and

the operating device and the central control device are configured in such a way that the lights are controlled by the operating device via the central control device by means of the wireless communication interfaces.

7. The illumination system as claimed in claim 1,

wherein the central control device has a lighting control interface,

the lights in each case have a lighting control interface,

the central control device and the lights are configured in such a way that the lights are controlled by the central control device by means of the lighting control interfaces of the central control device and of the lights, and

the lighting control interfaces are preferably DALI interfaces.

8. The illumination system as claimed in claim 1,

wherein the operating device is configured to display on the display unit the positions only of lights within a user-adjustable or predefined radius around the determined position of the operating device.

9. The illumination system as claimed in claim 1,

wherein the operating device is configured to display on the display unit the positions of only one or some of the lights closest to the determined position of the operating device.

10. The illumination system as claimed in claim 1,

wherein the operating device is configured to display the positions of the displayed lights and the position of the operating device on the display unit in a top view representation according to the respective positions.

11. The illumination system as claimed in claim 2,

wherein the operating device is configured to display the positions of the displayed lights and the position of the operating device on the display unit in a map representation with additional information relating to a respective environment, and

the additional information relating to the respective environment is retained in the position database.

12. The illumination system as claimed in claim 1,

wherein the operating device and the central control device are configured to enable a control of an ON state and/or a dimming state and/or a color temperature and/or a temporal illumination sequence of the individual lights.

13. A method for operating an illumination system with a mobile operating device, a plurality of lights and a central control device,

wherein the central control device controls the lights,

wherein the position of the operating device is sensed by means of a position-sensing unit of the operating device,

positions of at least some of the lights and the position of the operating device are displayed in combination by a display unit of the operating device, and

the operating device is configured to enable a user to perform a selection and operation of at least the displayed part of the lights by means of the display unit, and

the lights are controlled by means of the central control device according to the operation by the user.

14. The method as claimed in claim 13, wherein the illumination system has a position database in which information relating to positions of the lights is retained, and

information relating to the positions of the lights is read from the position database by the operating device.

15. The method as claimed in claim 14,

wherein the lights have position memories in which information relating to a position of the respective light is stored,

the operating device, in the event of an initialization of a light,

determines a current position of the operating device, and

writes a position of the operating device to the position memory of the respective light by means of a writing unit, and

wherein the light, in the event of an initialization of the respective light, transmits a position of the light stored in the position memory of the light to the position database.