Smart Lighting Commissioning Using Virtual Device Binding
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Solution Overview
Problem
Traditional commissioning methods for intelligent lighting systems in large buildings are cumbersome, time-consuming, and prone to errors, especially in redundant sections like hotel rooms, requiring extensive expertise and leading to difficulties in servicing after installation.
Innovation Solution
A software system that creates reference copies of virtual devices and logical functions for sets of redundant sections, allowing for pre-programming and global editing, which can be applied to similar sections, reducing the need for individual room commissioning and minimizing on-site errors.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If traditional commissioning methods are used for each room individually, then complete device identification and behavior programming is achieved, but the process becomes extremely time-consuming and error-prone in large complexes with redundant sections
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates virtual reference copies of device configurations and behavior definitions that can be replicated across multiple redundant sections. Instead of programming each room individually, a single reference configuration serves as a template that automatically applies to all similar sections, dramatically reducing commissioning time while maintaining consistency and accuracy across the entire complex.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary configuration by creating virtual device representations and behavior definitions before actual commissioning. The reference copies are prepared in advance, allowing the commissioning process to simply bind physical devices to pre-defined virtual references rather than programming everything from scratch during on-site installation.
2Adaptability or versatility
If complete behavior programming is performed for every room, then functional requirements are met, but technical complexity and difficulty of servicing increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a universal reference copy mechanism where a single virtual device configuration and behavior definition can serve multiple redundant sections simultaneously. This multi-functional approach allows one reference configuration to manage devices across numerous rooms, reducing the overall system complexity while maintaining full functional coverage for each individual section.
3Manufacturing precision
If individual room commissioning is performed, then specific device binding is achieved, but post-installation servicing and re-programming become difficult and time-consuming
Solution Approach 1:
The virtual reference copy system allows servicing personnel to modify a single reference configuration and have changes automatically propagated to all replicated sections. This eliminates the need to manually re-program each individual room when changes are needed, making post-installation servicing extremely efficient while maintaining precise device binding through the virtual reference framework.
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AI summary
The commissioning of a smart building technology system is implemented with the use of a binding table in a relational database to bind one or more sections of virtual devices representing, e.g., lights, sensors, actuators and room controls, to the network addresses of physical devices. Plans for redundant sections in large building are created in terms of virtual devices and logical functions (such as programmed groups of devices, scenes and recipes) without direct binding to physical devices. Software creates reference copies of the plan for redundant sections the building, through use of a binding table, and attaches the reference copy to the location of the respective section on a master layout of the building. The plan modeled with virtual devices can be edited or reprogrammed across all reference copies, even after binding to physical devices and commissioning is completed.