Wireless Security Lighting Network Coordination
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing security lighting systems are complex to configure and require extensive wiring, making them time-consuming and expensive to install, and they often fail to coordinate lighting across multiple units effectively in response to motion and ambient light changes.
Innovation Solution
A networked security lighting system with wirelessly connected units, each equipped with motion and ambient light sensors, allowing for coordinated lighting responses across multiple units without the need for physical wiring, using a user interface to manage channels and operating modes, and transmitting signals with unique transaction IDs to prevent collisions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If lighting units are hardwired together in a network, then reliable communication between units is achieved, but installation time and complexity increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces the mechanical wiring system with a wireless communication system. Lighting units communicate motion detect signals and control commands wirelessly instead of through physical electrical connections, eliminating the need for complex hardwiring while maintaining network reliability through protocol-level error handling and signal redundancy
2Device complexity
If each lighting unit functions individually based on its own sensor detection, then system complexity is reduced, but coordinated lighting response across multiple units is lost
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the operational states of multiple individually functioning lighting units into a coordinated system. When one unit detects motion, it transmits a signal to other units in the network, causing them to activate their lights in unison. This combines the simplicity of individual unit operation with the versatility of coordinated response, allowing the system to function as a unified security lighting network
3Area of stationary object
If multiple lighting units are installed to cover larger areas, then security coverage is improved, but configuration complexity and installation cost increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements universal communication protocols and standardized interfaces that allow lighting units to be deployed in networks of any size without increasing configuration complexity. Each unit functions as both a sensor node and a controller, and the wireless network automatically routes signals between units regardless of network topology, enabling scalable deployment from single-unit to multi-unit configurations with the same level of ease
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
Enables efficient and cost-effective installation of security lighting systems with coordinated lighting responses across multiple units, reducing installation time and complexity while providing customizable illumination levels and alerts for motion and ambient light events.
Implementation Method 1
determining that an amount of ambient light affecting a sensor of the first lighting device is outside of a threshold for activating a light
Implementation Method 2
detecting, by the motion sensor, a motion event
Implementation Method 3
a transmitter configured to operate over multiple channels that include a first channel to which a first lighting device can be connected, and a second channel to which a second lighting device can be connected
Data Source
AI summary
The described embodiments relate to systems, methods, and apparatuses for establishing a network of sensor-responsive lighting units using an interface of each lighting unit. The interface of each lighting unit can include a channel selector switch for selecting a channel to which each lighting unit will be connected. In this way, the creation of a network can be created by placing the lighting units proximate to each other and selecting the same channel at the interface at each lighting unit. The lighting units can include sensors for detecting events occurring at each lighting unit, and information related to the detected events can be shared among other lighting units in the network. Each lighting unit can operate in different operating modes such as a testing mode for testing communications channels and a manual mode for allowing a lighting unit to operate independently of the information shared over the network.