Lighting Devices Rapid Commissioning via Beacon Signals

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Solution Overview

Problem

The conventional commissioning process for lighting systems is time-consuming and expensive, requiring significant worker hours to set up and calibrate controls for large installations, often taking days or weeks for commercial or industrial settings with hundreds or thousands of light sources.

Innovation Solution

The use of beacon signals allows for rapid commissioning of lighting systems by storing and updating commissioning information in light sources without the need for dedicated networks or connections, significantly reducing the time required for commissioning, as light sources transmit unique identifiers and receive instructions via beacon signals to adjust their settings.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If conventional commissioning process is used for lighting systems, then lighting devices can be set up and calibrated, but the process is time-consuming and expensive, requiring significant worker hours

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecommissioning speedVSAvoidcommissioning time

Core Design Contradiction:

ProductivityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The lighting devices perform self-identification and self-commissioning by automatically detecting beacon signals and updating their own commissioning information without requiring manual intervention from commissioning personnel, thereby eliminating the time-consuming manual setup process

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The patent replaces the manual mechanical process of physical device configuration and calibration with an automated signal-based system where beacon signals carry commissioning information that lighting devices automatically process and apply

Inventive Principle:

Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

2Manufacturing precision

If manual setup and calibration is performed for each lighting device, then controls can be configured according to design intent, but the process becomes slow and expensive for large installations

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecommissioning accuracyVSAvoidcommissioning efficiency

Core Design Contradiction:

Manufacturing precisionVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The lighting devices provide feedback by transmitting their unique identifiers and receiving beacon signals, creating a closed-loop system that automatically verifies and updates commissioning information without manual verification, ensuring accuracy while improving efficiency

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

Solution Approach 2:

The commissioning information is prepared in advance in the beacon signals before the actual commissioning process, allowing lighting devices to receive and apply all necessary configuration data simultaneously rather than through sequential manual steps

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentUS10880977B1Rapid commissioning of lighting devices

Publication Date: 2020.12.29 SIGNIFY HOLDING BV

AI summary

A technique for commissioning of a light source includes transmitting outgoing beacon signals, each outgoing beacon signal including a stored light source identifier that uniquely identifies the light source; receiving incoming beacon signals including an incoming beacon signal carrying an incoming light source identifier that corresponds to the stored light source identifier; receiving subsequent incoming beacon signal carrying the incoming light source identifier; and changing commissioning information in response to receiving the subsequent incoming beacon signal carrying the incoming light source identifier.