Touch Screen Lighting Controller Interface Design
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current lighting control systems lack intuitive and customizable interfaces for users to efficiently manage lighting fixtures, particularly in terms of brightness and color temperature, across multiple zones and groups, often requiring complex configurations and manual adjustments.
Innovation Solution
A touch screen lighting system controller (smart switch) equipped with an electronic processor, transceiver, display, and non-transient memory, which generates graphical representations based on configuration files, allows users to interactively control lighting systems through a user-friendly interface, enabling control of lighting fixtures, brightness, and correlated color temperature via touch inputs, and transmits corresponding commands.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If a traditional lighting control system is used, then the system structure is simple, but the ease of operation deteriorates due to lack of intuitive interface for managing lighting fixtures
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a touch screen display as an intermediary interface between the user and the lighting control system. This graphical user interface allows users to visually select and control lighting fixtures, zones, and parameters through intuitive graphical representations rather than complex manual switches or dials, thereby improving ease of operation without fundamentally changing the underlying control system architecture
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces traditional mechanical control interfaces (physical switches, dimmer knobs, manual selectors) with an electronic touch screen interface. This substitution enables graphical selection of lighting fixtures and parameters through touch interactions, significantly improving user-friendliness while maintaining relatively simple system hardware requirements
2Productivity
If manual adjustments are used for lighting control, then the device complexity is low, but the productivity deteriorates due to time-consuming configurations
Solution Approach 1:
The system pre-configures graphical representations of lighting fixtures, zones, and control parameters before user interaction. Configuration files containing fixture data, zone groupings, and available controls are loaded and processed in advance, allowing users to immediately begin controlling lighting without performing manual setup or configuration tasks, thereby improving productivity
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates graphical copies or representations of physical lighting fixtures and their parameters on the touch screen display. These visual copies include icons, images, or symbolic representations that mirror the actual fixtures, allowing users to interact with digital replicas rather than physically locating and adjusting each fixture, significantly reducing configuration time
3Adaptability or versatility
If a basic control interface is used, then the device complexity remains low, but the adaptability deteriorates due to inability to customize controls for different zones and groups
Solution Approach 1:
The graphical user interface dynamically adapts its content and structure based on user selections and system state. When users select different zones, fixtures, or operational modes, the display automatically reconfigures to show relevant controls and parameters, providing customized interfaces for different lighting scenarios without requiring multiple physical control devices or complex manual reconfiguration
Solution Approach 2:
The touch screen display serves as a universal control interface that can manage multiple lighting fixtures, zones, and parameters through a single device. The system loads configuration data for various fixtures and zones and presents appropriate controls through the same graphical interface, eliminating the need for separate control mechanisms for different lighting elements and enhancing adaptability
Data Source
AI summary
A system including an electronic processor, a transceiver communicatively coupled to the electronic processor, a display communicatively coupled to the electronic processor and a non-transient memory medium communicatively coupled to the electronic processor. The electronic processor is configured to generate a graphical representation based on at least one configuration file, the graphical representation including a button, present the graphical representation on the display, receive, via the display, a user input indicative of selecting the button, and transmit, via the transceiver, a lighting system control command based selection of the button.