TY - PAT
T1 - Control of lighting devices
AU - Caicedo, Fernández David Ricardo
AU - Pasveer, Willem Franke
AU - Matovina, Jelena
AU - Klein, Swormink Michel Albertus Theodorus
AU - Vangeel, Jurgen Mario
AU - Delnoij, Roger Peter Anna
AU - Rietman, Wijnand Johannes
AU - Pandharipande, Ashish Vijay
AU - Sreedharan, Nair Biju Kumar
AU - Neuttiens, Geert Bart
PY - 2015/2/19
Y1 - 2015/2/19
N2 - A network of active sensors in a control system is considered. The active sensors, which may be fixed-infrastructure sensors, provide presence detection information to a distributed lighting system. The active sensors communicate by transmitting probe signals. The communication of probe signals may result in cross-interference which may vary in time. Cross-interference is detected, and can later be avoided, by determining a difference between signals received in a first part of a timeslot and signals received in a second part of the timeslot. In order to do so probe signals comprising two non-zero pulses are transmitted in respective parts of the timeslot. Applications are, for example, active presence sensors in lighting control applications in indoor as well as outdoor environments.
AB - A network of active sensors in a control system is considered. The active sensors, which may be fixed-infrastructure sensors, provide presence detection information to a distributed lighting system. The active sensors communicate by transmitting probe signals. The communication of probe signals may result in cross-interference which may vary in time. Cross-interference is detected, and can later be avoided, by determining a difference between signals received in a first part of a timeslot and signals received in a second part of the timeslot. In order to do so probe signals comprising two non-zero pulses are transmitted in respective parts of the timeslot. Applications are, for example, active presence sensors in lighting control applications in indoor as well as outdoor environments.
M3 - Patent publication
M1 - US2015048954
ER -