Methods and apparatus for information management and control of outdoor lighting networks

US9907147B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• PHILIPS LIGHTING HOLDING B.V. · NL

Inventors

• Hongxin Chen · Shanghai, CN
• Dave Alberto Tavares Cavalcanti · Mahopac, US
• Kiran Challapali · New City, US
• Sanae Chraibi · Eindhoven, NL
• Liang Jia · San Mateo, US
• Andrew Ulrich Rutgers · Eindhoven, NL
• Yong Yang · Tangxia, CN
• Michael Alex Van Hartskamp · Eindhoven, NL
• Dzmitry Viktorovich Aliakseyeu · Eindhoven, NL
• Hui Li · Beijing, CN
• Qing Li · Shanghai, CN
• Fulong Ma · Shanghai, CN
• Jonathan David Mason · Waalre, NL
• Berent Willem Meerbeek · Eindhoven, NL
• John Brean Mills · Eindhoven, NL
• Talmai Brandão De Oliveira · North Andover, US
• Daniel Piotrowski · Edison, US
• Yuan Shu · Singapore, SG
• NEVEEN SHLAYAN · Las Vegas, US
• Marcin Krzysztof Szczodrak · New York, US
• Yi Qiang Yu · Shanghai, CN
• Zhong Huang · Shanghai, CN
• Martin Elixmann · Aachen, DE
• Qin Zhao · Charenton-le-Pont, FR
• Xianneng Peng · Shanghai, CN
• Jianfeng Wang · 安丰镇, CN
• Dan Jiang · Beijing, CN

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 12, 2014
• Grant date: Feb 27, 2018
• Expiry date: Mar 12, 2034

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H05B47/1985
• WIPO field: Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

The invention provides a light management information system for an outdoor lighting network system, having a plurality of outdoor light units each including at least one sensor type, where each of the light units communicates with at least one other light unit, at least one user input/output device in communication with at one or more of said outdoor light units, a central management system in communication with light units, said central management system sends control commands and/or information to one or more of said outdoor light units, in response to received outdoor light unit status/sensor information from one or more of said outdoor light units or received user information requests from said user input/output device, a resource server in communication with said central management system, wherein the central management system uses the light unit status/sensor information and resources from the resource server to provide information to the user input/output device and/or reconfigure one or more of the lights units.