Space-Based Lighting Control System Delivery
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current lighting control systems face challenges in efficient specification, ordering, and installation, leading to increased costs, waste, and prolonged installation times due to the need for custom submittals and large, centralized deliveries, which can result in misplaced, damaged, or stolen components.
Innovation Solution
A computer-implemented method and system for specifying and delivering lighting control systems on a space-by-space basis, using a web-based platform to generate unique part numbers for each space, allowing for separate packaging and delivery of components directly to their designated locations, streamlining the specification, ordering, and installation processes.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If lighting control systems are specified and delivered as large centralized systems for entire buildings, then comprehensive coverage is achieved, but installation time increases and components are prone to being misplaced or damaged
Solution Approach 1:
The patent divides the lighting control system into space-specific modules, each with its own unique part number. Instead of delivering one large centralized system, the system is segmented into smaller delivery units corresponding to individual spaces or zones, reducing handling complexity and improving delivery accuracy while enabling parallel installation processes.
Solution Approach 2:
The system generates unique part numbers and prepares space-specific delivery lists before the actual delivery and installation processes. This preliminary organization of components by destination space prevents misplacement and enables installers to immediately begin work upon delivery without waiting for component sorting.
2Adaptability or versatility
If custom submittals are required for lighting control systems, then system specificity is improved, but the submittal process becomes prolonged
Solution Approach 1:
The system automatically generates space-specific part numbers and delivery lists in advance, before the ordering and installation processes. This preliminary generation of customization documentation eliminates the need for prolonged manual submittal processes while maintaining full system adaptability to specific space requirements.
3Adaptability or versatility
If devices are delivered in multiple shipments or centralized deliveries, then delivery flexibility is achieved, but coordination becomes difficult and items may be misplaced
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments deliveries into space-specific shipments, each containing only the components needed for particular spaces. This segmentation maintains delivery flexibility while dramatically improving installation coordination, as each delivery is self-contained and clearly labeled with destination information, eliminating the need for centralized sorting and reducing the risk of misplacement.
Data Source
AI summary
A system and method for modeling a lighting control system for an enterprise is provided comprising an application (App) on a mobile device, or laptop, or personal computer, or other like device, that can communicate electronically with a webpage accessible by the internet or local area network or wide area network, wherein the webpage represents a program, and the program provides for the receiving, storing, and processing of lighting control system specified information on a space-by-space basis, and further wherein a unique part number for the space-based lighting control system can be generated for the particular space, such that delivery of individual, but substantially integrated space-based lighting control systems, can be delivered to the spaces for installation in the enterprise location.