EP1251721A1 - Überwachungssystem von Strassenlampen - Google Patents

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EP1251721A1
EP1251721A1 EP01830235A EP01830235A EP1251721A1 EP 1251721 A1 EP1251721 A1 EP 1251721A1 EP 01830235 A EP01830235 A EP 01830235A EP 01830235 A EP01830235 A EP 01830235A EP 1251721 A1 EP1251721 A1 EP 1251721A1
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H05—ELECTRIC TECHNIQUES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • H05B—ELECTRIC HEATING; ELECTRIC LIGHT SOURCES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; CIRCUIT ARRANGEMENTS FOR ELECTRIC LIGHT SOURCES, IN GENERAL
    • H05B47/00—Circuit arrangements for operating light sources in general, i.e. where the type of light source is not relevant
    • H05B47/20—Responsive to malfunctions or to light source life; for protection
    • H05B47/21—Responsive to malfunctions or to light source life; for protection of two or more light sources connected in parallel
    • H05B47/22—Responsive to malfunctions or to light source life; for protection of two or more light sources connected in parallel with communication between the lamps and a central unit
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    • H05—ELECTRIC TECHNIQUES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • H05B—ELECTRIC HEATING; ELECTRIC LIGHT SOURCES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; CIRCUIT ARRANGEMENTS FOR ELECTRIC LIGHT SOURCES, IN GENERAL
    • H05B47/00—Circuit arrangements for operating light sources in general, i.e. where the type of light source is not relevant
    • H05B47/10—Controlling the light source
    • H05B47/175—Controlling the light source by remote control
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    • H05—ELECTRIC TECHNIQUES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • H05B—ELECTRIC HEATING; ELECTRIC LIGHT SOURCES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; CIRCUIT ARRANGEMENTS FOR ELECTRIC LIGHT SOURCES, IN GENERAL
    • H05B47/00—Circuit arrangements for operating light sources in general, i.e. where the type of light source is not relevant
    • H05B47/10—Controlling the light source
    • H05B47/175—Controlling the light source by remote control
    • H05B47/19—Controlling the light source by remote control via wireless transmission

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  • the present invention relates to an urban remote-surveillance system for street lamps and more generally to a system for monitoring events which do not require immediate action.
  • the document US 5,479,159 describes a system in which a monitoring device (microprocessor) powered by the same network supplying power for the lighting system is associated with each lamp and detects and stores the state of each associated lamp.
  • a monitoring device microprocessor
  • the power supply network acts as a communications line by means of which the various monitoring devices are periodically interrogated and provide responses indicating the state of the associated lamp.
  • the conveyed-wave communications system has considerable drawbacks (possible electrical disturbances, problems of isolation, attenuation of the signal along the lines, need for receivers and repeaters for the electrical transformer cabins).
  • the message may be repeated several times.
  • the transmission frequency is chosen randomly from a frequency spectrum.
  • This system also has certain limitations: the use of a frequency spectrum results in the wastage of limited and precious resources. Moreover, unless systems which are confined within extremely small geographical areas are provided, each system being associated with a base station, it is necessary to use transmission devices having a certain power level, in contrast to the need to keep the electromagnetic pollution within permissible limits and the intensity of the irradiated field, at any point in space, and therefore also at the source, below a predetermined safety threshold.
  • radio communication systems have been proposed, wherein, in order to ensure the coverage of a suitably wide area with low-power transmitters, the various units which form the system are all organized so as to form a communications loop (or line) in which each unit forwards, during a subsequent time period, a message previously received from a unit arranged in order before it to a unit arranged in order after it, until a destination unit is reached.
  • the system is effective, but it cannot be used in systems where the intercommunicating units are in the region of thousands or more, as in the case of street lighting systems.
  • the present invention solves these problems and offers an urban remote-surveillance system for street lamps which ensures an adequate territorial coverage using remote-control modules of the microprocessor type, with associated memory, each being associated with a street lamp, said modules being provided with very low power transceivers operating at the same frequency and communicating in half-duplex mode with a concentrator module, directly or by means of other modules which act as repeaters organized as nodes in a hierarchical tree structure managed by the concentrator module which interrogates the various units by means of polling procedure.
  • addressing of the interrogations to the various destination units is performed using a message structure which defines the route to be followed via nodes, only one of which at a time is authorized, in an ordered sequence, to transmit.
  • the same structure may be used for routing of the response.
  • the modules which have the function of repeater nodes in the tree structure comprise a memory portion in which the identification code of the node/module which is immediately higher in the hierarchical order and the identification codes of the nodes/modules which are at least immediately dependent in the hierarchical order are stored so as to reduce the amount of routing information which is transmitted.
  • the remote-control modules are provided with fixing means for installation at the top of the street-lamp support structures in a predetermined oriented position with respect to the horizontal plane.
  • control modules in addition to handling and monitoring the operation of the lamps with which they are associated, operate as centres for the acquisition of other information sent via radio waves or by means of digital inputs, such as for example the conditions of the nearest road display panels, the atmospheric, electromagnetic or acoustic pollution conditions, gas meter and/or electric meter readings and also images detected by digital photocameras.
  • the remote-surveillance system comprises a concentrator module 1 - communicating, by means of conventional communication means, such as a cellular phone and switched telephone network, with a control centre 50 - preferably but not necessarily housed in an electrical transformer cabin 2 which supplies the power for an electrical street-lighting system (or section) represented, by way of example, by four light sources 3, 4, 5 and 6 mounted on a post (or alternatively also suspended therefrom).
  • a concentrator module 1 - communicating, by means of conventional communication means, such as a cellular phone and switched telephone network, with a control centre 50 - preferably but not necessarily housed in an electrical transformer cabin 2 which supplies the power for an electrical street-lighting system (or section) represented, by way of example, by four light sources 3, 4, 5 and 6 mounted on a post (or alternatively also suspended therefrom).
  • a remote-control module 7, 8, 9, 10 is respectively installed, as a component of the system, on each of the light sources.
  • Both the concentrator module and the remote-control modules are provided with a transceiver operating in half-duplex mode, i.e. alternately transmitting or receiving, in a mutually exclusive manner, at a predetermined frequency, preferably but not necessarily in the band ranging from 868 to 870 MHz, namely on a wavelength of about 0.34 m.
  • the various modules are therefore equipped with a short, vertical-style, quarter-wave antenna, no more than 84 mm long (in practice also less if loaded), which therefore has particularly intense and uniform characteristics in the horizontal plane and is much more attenuated in the other directions and even zero in the vertical direction.
  • the antenna may be integrated in the printed circuit supporting the logic storage and transceiver devices which form the module, or may also be external, omnidirectional or directional (also only for the radio-transmitting section).
  • the transceiver of the various modules preferably has a minimum power, with an irradiated power on the antenna of less than 5 mW, for which the current norms do not envisage operating licences and periodic checks, or in any case a power which is permitted for LPD equipment.
  • the concentrator module 1 is able to communicate directly only with the modules, such as 8, 10, arranged in a radius not greater than 100 m.
  • the modules such as 7, 9, arranged at a greater distance, direct communication is impossible or at least uncertain, at least for the modules arranged at a distance less than the maximum range, but greater than the minimum range.
  • modules in direct communication with the concentrator module, as repeaters.
  • the modules may be used equally well as repeaters for transferring messages from the concentrator module 1 to the module 9 and vice versa.
  • the module 7 is in communication with the concentrator module 1, by means of the module 8 alone operating as a repeater.
  • the concentrator module 1 transmits a message intended for the module 9
  • both the modules 8 and 10 could recognize the message and forward it, interfering with each other.
  • the various modules operate at the same receiving/transmitting frequency, in half-duplex mode, i.e. alternately transmitting or receiving, and are organized in a hierarchical tree structure in which the initiative for sending a message and receiving a message is always exclusively taken by the unit which is higher ranking in the hierarchical structure (concentrator module) using a polling procedure which periodically interrogates one-by-one the other units, identifying them with a destination code and, if necessary, with further routing codes which identify in order the various units which must intervene in the message transfer process.
  • a polling procedure which periodically interrogates one-by-one the other units, identifying them with a destination code and, if necessary, with further routing codes which identify in order the various units which must intervene in the message transfer process.
  • the configuration of the hierarchical structure may be defined during installation, taking into account the distances between the various modules, but preferably is defined upon initial operation of the system using an automatic procedure, as will be described in greater detail below, stored in the concentrator module 1 equipped, like the other modules, with a microprocessor and a memory of suitable capacity.
  • Figure 2 shows an example of a hierarchical tree structure for the system according to the present invention.
  • Each module such as 11, 12 etc., is assigned, at the factory or upon installation, an identification code with N bits (for example 10 bits, allowing 1024 modules to be distinguished) which is permanently stored in the module or set with a DIP switch.
  • N bits for example 10 bits, allowing 1024 modules to be distinguished
  • the memory of the concentrator module 1 contains a descriptive configuration table which, for each module identification code, determines in order, by means of the respective code, whether and which of the modules are to intervene in the communications process.
  • the concentrator module wishes to send a message to one of the modules such as 12, with which it is in direct radio communication, it is sufficient for it to transmit, together with the message, the identification code of the module 12.
  • the module 12 receives the message, recognizes itself as the destination and consequently operates, for example switching to transmission and returning, without the need for an identification code of the concentrator module, a response message indicating for example the state of the associated light source.
  • the concentrator module 1 transmits a message which contains, in an ordered sequence, the identification code of the modules 12, 25, 32 and 41 which recognize themselves in sequence as carriers of the communication and forward the message in cascade as far as the destination module 41.
  • the various levels 1, II, ... V of the hierarchical structure are defined so that the modules of each level are able to communicate in a certain and reliable manner with the modules of the hierarchical level which is immediately higher and lower, but this does not exclude the possibility of communication, in marginal conditions, with the modules belonging to a hierarchical level which is further away from the immediately higher or lower level.
  • the transmitted message may be simultaneously recognized by the modules 12, 25 and it is necessary to prevent the module 25 from taking transmission initiatives at the same time as the module 12.
  • the modules (nodes) 24,25,26 store the identifying code of the module/node 12 as their master
  • the module 32 stores the code of the module 25 as its master
  • the module 41 stores the code of the module 32 as its master.
  • the return and routing of a message towards the root of the structure, namely to the concentrator node 1 may be achieved automatically from any point in the structure, with the designation, during each message repetition step, of the destination module upstream.
  • the module 41 upon request of the concentrator module 1, must send a response message, it is sufficient for it to indicate, as the destination of its response message, the module 32, associating the corresponding code read in its memory with the message.
  • the module 32 when forwarding the message received, indicates as its destination the module 25, and so on, as far as the concentrator module.
  • routing information as service information
  • the routing information compared to the significant information which forms the rest of the message, it is obvious that with this solution the amount of necessary service information and the time spent for transfer thereof is reduced considerably, resulting in more rapid transfer of the useful information.
  • the routing information for the return messages is no longer necessary as starting information, because it is acquired automatically by the structure, it is also true that the initial routing information, once used, becomes superfluous and may be removed from the following messages.
  • the concentrator module 1 sends a message to the module 41, it defines the routing path with the ordered codes relating to the modules 12, 25, 32, 41.
  • modules such as 25, 32, 41, must also receive the message, they do not intervene because they recognize themselves in the ordered sequence as being successive to the module 12.
  • the module 25 recognizes itself as the first destination and proceeds with a further repetition, in accordance with the procedure already described.
  • each module of the structure has, stored in it, during the system configuration step, both the identification code of the node or module with an immediately higher hierarchical level (in this case also the concentration module may be identified by default) and the identification code of the nodes or modules with an immediately lower hierarchical level, belonging to the same branch.
  • the module/node 12 stores the codes of the modules 24,25,26 as subordinates;
  • the module 25 stores the code of the module 12 as a higher-ranking module or as its master and the code of the module 32 (and other possible modules) as subordinate modules;
  • the module 32 stores the code of the module 25 as its master and the codes of the modules 41, 42 as subordinates, and so on, until the end of the structure is reached.
  • the concentrator module 1 intends to send a message to the module 41, it is sufficient for it to transmit, as service information, the code corresponding to the module 41 and the code of the intermediate modules of the branch, which are separated by a hierarchical level, in this case only the module 25.
  • the module 12 receives the message, recognizes itself, even though not explicitly mentioned, as the sole master of the module 25 and forwards message, tagging the token authorizing forwarding onto the code of the module 25.
  • the module 25 receives the message, recognizes itself as authorized for transmission and forwards the message, omitting its identification code, namely sending as routing information only the code of the module 41.
  • the module 32 although not explicitly named in the message, recognizes itself as sole master of the module 41 and forwards the message, tagging onto the code of the module 41 the token authorizing it to proceed in accordance with the instructions contained in the message.
  • the routing mechanism is the same: it is sufficient to name the module X as destination and the modules of the branch, such as 31 and 12, separated by a hierarchical level, in order to establish the desired communication between the concentrator module, the generic module X and vice versa.
  • Figure 3 shows, by way of example, the preferred digital format of a message which can be used in any one of the solutions mentioned above.
  • a first "START" field of suitable length in numbers of bits, allows, in a known manner, all the units which receive the message to synchronize themselves with the data transfer frequency which is much lower than the carrier frequency and in the region of 110-200 KHz.
  • a second "FORM" field consisting for example of 6 bits, defines with the first 3 bits the number of unit codes (from 1 to 7) which form the subsequent routing information ("ROUTE").
  • the following field which is of variable length, contains in an ordered sequence the codes, for example A,B,C, which identify the modules involved in routing and the destination module.
  • MESSAGE contains the significant information (requests for command data or response information such as states, alarm conditions and the like) which are of no interest here.
  • the field "END" contains an end-of-message code by means of which transmission by the module transmitting the message is terminated and the transmission activity of another module can start.
  • Figure 4 shows a time diagram for the process of transmission and repetition of a message such as that shown in Figure 3, from the concentrator module 1 to the module C and vice versa.
  • the concentrator module MC which is actively transmitting, as indicated by the letter T, transmits the message.
  • the module A recognizes the message and stores it temporarily.
  • the module A assumes the transmission state and, in the time interval t1-t2, forwards the message, together with the necessary modifications in the routing code.
  • the message is received and stored by the module B which, during the next time interval t2-t3, forwards it to the module C.
  • the destination module C transmits a response message in the following time interval t3-t4.
  • This message which is received by the module B, is forwarded in the time interval t4-t5, received by the module A and forwarded by the latter in the time interval t5-t6, during the course of which the response message is thus made available to the concentrator module MC.
  • the concentrator module can again be activated for transmission so as to interrogate another generic module.
  • FIG. 5 is a block diagram of a remote-control module such as 7, 8, 9 and 10 according to Figure 1.
  • the module comprises a power supply unit 51 (AC/DC) which is connected to the network of the lighting system and which, in parallel with the back-up battery 52, powers the various components of the module, an output terminal block 53, for connection to a lighting lamp, an analog-digital converter 54 (AD) for detecting the power supply voltage/current of the lamp, a microprocessor 55, with a suitable number of programmable number of input/output (I/O) ports 56, a ROS control memory 57, for permanently storing a basic firmware, and a read/write working memory 58 for storing a modifiable firmware (FW) and data (including the messages which are temporarily stored during receiving), said data including, explicitly indicated, a master identification code (MASTER ID), namely of the remote-control module with an immediately higher hierarchical ranking and a plurality of codes (SLAVES IDD) identifying the modules with an immediately lower hierarchical ranking in the tree structure.
  • AC/DC power supply unit 51
  • AD analog-digital converter 54
  • I/O input
  • this information is not indispensable, but corresponds to a preferred embodiment.
  • Information which is indispensable, on the other hand, consists of a module identification code (ID) which may be permanently written in a ROS 57, in a permanently external memory, not shown, or also may be provided by means of the programmable ports 56 or by a DIP switch 59.
  • ID module identification code
  • the module is completed by a transceiver 60 with associated antenna 61, which is controlled during receiving or transmission by means of the I/O ports 56 which transfer the radio signals received to the microprocessor or modulate by means of a suitable system (PCM or the like) the transmission in isofrequency.
  • a transceiver 60 with associated antenna 61 which is controlled during receiving or transmission by means of the I/O ports 56 which transfer the radio signals received to the microprocessor or modulate by means of a suitable system (PCM or the like) the transmission in isofrequency.
  • the module by means of a relay 62, which is operated by means of the I/O ports 56 and an amplifier 63, switches the lamp (or also more than one lamp) on and off and controls the state thereof by means of the A/D converter 54 and the I/O ports 56, via which the microprocessor may also exchange information with other auxiliary equipment, such as devices for detecting the state of atmospheric pollution, the weather conditions (temperature, pressure, humidity) or acoustic and/or electromagnetic pollution.
  • auxiliary equipment such as devices for detecting the state of atmospheric pollution, the weather conditions (temperature, pressure, humidity) or acoustic and/or electromagnetic pollution.
  • the module may also receive, provided that it is correctly identified as the destination, by means of the transceiver 60, information which is supplied not by other system modules, but by auxiliary peripheral remote-reading units (for example gas/water/electricity meters, or the like, and also digital telecameras), these also being equipped with a transceiver device and identifiable by means of a code (being preferably activated upon request of the module in order to avoid transmission interference), said units using the system as a communications network.
  • auxiliary peripheral remote-reading units for example gas/water/electricity meters, or the like, and also digital telecameras
  • Fig. 6 shows a block diagram of the concentrator module 1.
  • the concentrator module also essentially consists of a microprocessor 64 and a memory 65 for programs and data.
  • a memory area is specifically dedicated for storing a configuration map ("CONFIG MAP"), namely a set of tables which describe the tree structure of the system (Fig. 2) and define, with the respective identification codes, which modules are in direct communication with the concentration module - i.e. the modules of the second level, with respect to the concentrator module regarded as a first-level module - which modules are in direct communication with each of the first-level modules, and so on.
  • CONFIG MAP configuration map
  • the configuration may be described using a single table in which the identification code of each module in the system regarded as a destination module (said modules being suitably ordered in an ordered arrangement which may be dynamically modified and defined with different levels of priority, as will be explained below) has, associated with it, in an ordered sequence, the code of all the intermediate modules which must be involved in the communication process between the concentrator module and the destination module.
  • the microprocessor 64 communicates with a serial port (for example of the RS232 type) via a cellular phone modem card 66 so as to send messages and receive instructions from a control centre 50 (Fig. 1) or sending messages of the SMS (Short Message Service) type to emergency stations via the cellular telephone system.
  • a serial port for example of the RS232 type
  • a cellular phone modem card 66 so as to send messages and receive instructions from a control centre 50 (Fig. 1) or sending messages of the SMS (Short Message Service) type to emergency stations via the cellular telephone system.
  • a second serial port 67 allows, with the same functional possibilities, the switched telephone network to be used.
  • a third serial port for example of the RS 485 type
  • the microprocessor controls transmission or reception of a transceiver RTX 68 which has the function of sending and receiving messages from the modules in direct communication with the concentrator module.
  • Programmable I/O ports both of the digital type (I/O DIG) 69 and of the analog type (AI, with single input) 70, are also envisaged for control and communication with auxiliary equipment.
  • the concentrator module is mains-powered by means of an AC/DC power supply unit 71, with back-up battery (not shown).
  • control module 1 is provided (for example by the control centre) with the list of the identification codes of all the modules which form part of the system, with the corresponding topographical location (road, post number, and the like).
  • the module 1 using a polling procedure, interrogates one-by-one the various modules (identifying them with the respective code), requesting them to send a message confirming receipt.
  • the module 1 receives a response only from the modules located within the transmission/reception range.
  • an "emargination" operation is carried out on this set of modules, namely the interrogation operation is repeated at a lower transmission power (for example 50% less) in order to exclude from the set thus identified those modules which are situated in marginal receiving conditions.
  • the role of second-level masters is assigned (or if necessary sent) to the set thus identified.
  • the remaining modules are interrogated so as to identify, after emargination, which modules are in communication with the first (or with others) of the second-level master units.
  • third-level master The role of third-level master is assigned (and if necessary sent) to the set thus identified.
  • the operation is repeated for decreasing hierarchical levels until all the modules have been covered, with the possible identification of modules which, because of their location, cannot be accessed by means of radio communication and must be excluded from the system or checked for possible faults or malfunctions.
  • the identification of the respective master and the respective slaves is communicated to the various modules (and stored locally).
  • the configuration operation requires a relatively short amount of time which depends on the number of nodes and on the data transmission speed. In practice, a few minutes are sufficient for a thousand or so nodes (modules) and a transmission speed of about 100-200 Kbits/s.
  • the system is ready to operate: the interrogation of the various modules for receiving, by way of response, information relating to their state is performed using a polling procedure, by means of which the various modules are interrogated one by one.
  • the interrogation time of each module depends not only on the transmission speed but also on its distance (in number of hierarchical levels of the tree configuration) and on the length (number of bits) of the interrogation message and the response message.
  • the interrogation may therefore be repeated at an interval of 3-5 s.
  • a polling procedure does not presuppose necessarily an interrogation frequency which is the same for all the modules: depending on the circumstances, and hence dynamically, it is possible to define several levels of priority which are assigned to the various modules and to interrogate with greater frequency those modules which have a higher priority.
  • the same criterion is applicable for the communications between concentrator module and control centre: once the concentrator module has collected alarm signals or indications of a fault or malfunction, these may be stored in the concentrator module and signalled in differed mode: only exceptionally, in particular conditions (risk of fires and the like), is the immediate signalling to the control centre or to other emergency stations required.

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