Integrated LED Lighting Fixture With RF Satellite Hazard Detection
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing utility devices in households lack comprehensive functionality, such as the ability to provide both hazard detection and illumination, and often require frequent battery replacements or hard-wiring, limiting their effectiveness and convenience.
Innovation Solution
A combination of an LED lighting fixture acting as a host device paired with remote satellite sensors for hazard detection, enabling RF communication and distributed network coverage for enhanced monitoring and control, including audible and visual alarms, and integration with existing lighting fixtures.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If battery-operated utility devices are used, then ease of installation is improved, but frequent battery replacement is required which reduces reliability
Solution Approach 1:
The host lighting fixture serves multiple functions: it provides illumination, hosts danger detection sensors, and acts as a communication hub for the satellite network. This multi-functionality eliminates the need for separate battery-operated utility devices while maintaining ease of installation and improving reliability through centralized power supply.
2Reliability
If hard-wired utility devices are used, then reliability is improved, but installation complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The danger detection sensors and communication modules are merged into the existing lighting fixture housing, creating a unified device that provides both illumination and safety monitoring. This integration eliminates the need for separate hard-wired installations while maintaining reliability through the fixture's existing electrical connection.
3Device complexity
If single-function devices are used, then device simplicity is improved, but functionality is limited
Solution Approach 1:
The host lighting fixture is designed as a universal platform that can support multiple types of danger detection sensors (smoke, heat, carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide) and communicate with various satellite devices. This multi-functionality expands capabilities while maintaining a simple unified device structure.
4Area of stationary object
If distributed satellite sensors are deployed, then hazard detection coverage is improved, but device quantity and complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The hazard detection system is segmented into a central host lighting fixture and multiple remote satellite sensors that can be distributed throughout the space. Each satellite is a simple sensor unit that communicates with the host, providing expanded detection coverage while keeping individual components simple and the overall system manageable through centralized coordination.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
Provides a 'whole-house' security system with comprehensive hazard detection and guidance, eliminating the need for frequent battery replacements and hard-wiring, while offering flexible placement and seamless integration with existing lighting systems.
Implementation Method 1
improved combination of danger detection and LED lighting lamp/fixture apparatus
Implementation Method 2
provides an RF communication means by which the satellite unit(s) can communicate with the host
Data Source
AI summary
The improved combination lighting-danger detection apparatus and system generally comprises a host device wirelessly paired with a network of remote sensing and utility satellites, where the host receives signals from the sensing satellites to extend its monitoring range, creates a distributed network by issuing commands to the utility satellites, includes audible and visual alarms, and transmits alerts across the network, and a base station that enables users to configure preferences, manage settings, test features and control operations through an application. With a series of such devices, networked throughout a building structure, provides a ‘whole-house’ complement to security, accessibility, and efficiency providing greater, danger protection, hazard warning, and utility operations, convenience functionality.