System and Method for Ensuring Minimal Control Delay to Grouped Illumination Devices Configured Within a Wireless Network

Abstract

A lighting control system and method is disclosed for not only controlling visual content loaded within a group set of illumination devices configured within a wireless network, but also for ensuring minimal control delay to those grouped devices. The lighting control system can include a lighting controller device that controls a plurality of lamps within a mesh network, not only to group those lamps but also to assign content to lamps within that group. The combination of a guaranteed groupcast to each of the group of lamps and an acknowledge back from those lamps that is aggregated over a single path achieves the improved lighting control system disclosed herein.

Description

CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION[0001]This application is related to co-pending application filed concurrently herewith under Ser. No. 15 / 041,166, entitled “Device, System and Method for Controlling Visual Content Loaded Into A Grouped Set of Illumination Devices Configured Within A Wireless Network.”BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0002]1. Field of the Invention[0003]This invention relates to illumination devices and, more particularly, to illumination devices interconnected by a network and controlled based on groupings of those devices and content stored therein.[0004]2. Description of the Relevant Art[0005]The following descriptions and examples are provided as background only and are intended to reveal information that is believed to be of possible relevance to the present invention. No admission is necessarily intended, nor should be construed, that any of the following information constitutes prior art impacting the patentable character of the subject matter claimed herein.[...

AI Technical Summary

Benefits of technology

This solution allows for seamless and synchronized control of lighting scenes across groups of lamps, eliminating delays and 'popcorn effects' by using groupcast messaging and aggregated acknowledgments, enabling a wide range of customizable lighting effects without the need for environmental sensing.

Problems solved by technology

Such network lighting control systems recognize that it is unfeasible to assign scenes to a group of lamps interconnected through a network since it is burdensome for a user to do so and because there is an almost infinite number of possible lighting scenes.

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