Central Management System for Outdoor Lighting Networks
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current outdoor lighting networks (OLNs) lack integrated management solutions that streamline design, deployment, and operation, leading to inefficiencies and high costs, as well as a lack of integration with advanced technologies and data management capabilities, which hinders the adoption of intelligent control systems.
Innovation Solution
A light management system for outdoor lighting networks that includes an array of outdoor light units, sensors, and a central management system (CMS) with a wired/wireless network for monitoring, control, and data management, enabling energy-saving processes, renewable power integration, and communication with users through elements like smartphones, and providing location-based services and data analysis.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If outdoor lighting networks use proprietary control and communication protocols, then system control and management are achieved, but system complexity increases and interoperability decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a universal control platform that can manage multiple outdoor lighting networks from different vendors through a single interface. The system translates various proprietary protocols into a unified communication standard, enabling one CMS to control diverse lighting units without requiring separate management systems for each vendor's equipment.
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple separate tools and platforms are used for design, project management, and operation, then specialized functions are achieved, but integration and information exchange between stages are lost
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges design planning tools, project management systems, and operation management platforms into a single integrated system. Information flows continuously across all stages through this unified platform, eliminating the need for separate tools and enabling seamless data exchange from initial design through deployment to ongoing operations.
Solution Approach 2:
The control platform serves multiple functions across the entire lifecycle of outdoor lighting projects - it performs design planning, project management, commissioning, and operational management all through one universal interface, replacing the need for multiple specialized but disconnected tools.
3Reliability
If centralized remote server management is implemented, then coordination and security are improved, but system cost and complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a universal centralized management system that handles multiple outdoor lighting networks simultaneously. By consolidating management functions into one platform that can control various vendor systems, the actual complexity and cost per network are reduced compared to implementing separate management systems for each network.
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AI summary
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.