Lighting Group Control for Unset Fixture Participation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing control systems fail to effectively include devices that have not been set with identification information for group control, leading to exclusion from group-based operations.
Innovation Solution
A control terminal that includes a wireless communicator, receiver, and information processor to instruct devices to participate in group control by specifying identification information, even if the setting has not been applied.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If group control is implemented by specifying identification information, then control efficiency is improved, but devices without setting are excluded from control
Solution Approach 1:
The control terminal performs preliminary detection to identify devices without group identification information before executing group control. This preliminary action enables the system to proactively include all devices in the control operation, ensuring complete coverage while maintaining efficient group-based control through the identification information of devices that have been properly configured.
2Measurement precision
If identification information setting is required for group control, then control precision is improved, but device compatibility is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The control terminal incorporates feedback by detecting whether devices have the required identification information setting and adjusting the control approach accordingly. For devices with proper settings, group control using identification information is applied for precise control. For devices without settings, the terminal detects this condition and applies alternative control methods, ensuring all devices can participate in group control while maintaining precision where applicable.
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AI summary
A control terminal includes: a wireless communicator that communicates with a plurality of lighting fixtures; a receiver that receives, from a user, a setting related to identification information indicating a group to which the plurality of lighting fixtures are to belong or control content to be instructed to the plurality of lighting fixtures; and an information processor that, when the plurality of lighting fixtures include an unset lighting fixture to which the setting has not been applied and the information processor instructs the plurality of lighting fixtures to participate in a first control to be performed by specifying the identification information, (a) instructs the plurality of lighting fixtures to participate in the first control by using the wireless communicator and further (b) instructs the unset lighting fixture to participate in same control as the first control by using the wireless communicator.