EP2936937A2 - System and method for selecting participants of a lighting system - Google Patents

Abstract

The invention relates to a system or method that uses a sensor (1) coupled to the line of sight. The sensor (1) coupled to the line of sight enables a user to determine and identify the members (3, 4) of a lighting system (2) individually, by directing his gaze to the member (3, 4) to be detected. The sensor (1) coupled to the line of sight then detects the member (3, 4) and reads out wirelessly an identification of the detected member (3, 4). Operating parameters and possible input commands for the identified member (3, 4) can then be displayed to the user automatically. The input commands comprise commands for manipulating and/or configuring the identified member (3, 4) via an input device (6).

Description

 System and method for selecting subscribers of a

 lighting Systems

The present invention relates to a system and method for selecting and identifying

Participants in a lighting system, in particular vo an operating device and / or a lighting means of the lighting system. In particular, the system and method of the present invention is based on the use of a view-direction coupled sensor.

From the prior art, different approaches are known to select participants of a lighting system. The participants of a lighting system are, for example, operating devices or lighting. If necessary, such participants must be individually selected and controlled for installation, maintenance or configuration.

Bulbs of FL lamps are typically taken out. In addition, lamps are also known from the prior art, which generate and reproduce an identification code by a modulation of their illumination spectrum, which can be read out, for example, by an optical sensor to identify a lamp. However, these previously known approaches are too complicated and time-consuming, especially when they have to be applied to a large number of participants in a lighting system, for example in an office building. In addition, most are at least some of the Users of a lighting system on high ceilings or otherwise difficult to reach places arranged so that it can be difficult to directly access certain participants to configure them.

Furthermore, the above-mentioned reproduction of an identification code by the modulation of the illumination spectrum of, for example, the lighting means of a lighting system is technically complex as soon as a large number of light sources is present. In addition, a special control system must be used. The approach is not easy to implement for conventional lamps. The present invention proposes a system and a method which has the object of overcoming or at least alleviating the above-mentioned disadvantages of the prior art. In particular, it is the object of the present invention to enable a simplified selection and identification of subscribers of a lighting system and to simplify the manipulation and / or configuration of a plurality of subscribers.

The present invention achieves the above objects by means of a system and a method according to the appended independent claims. The dependent claims further advantageously form the core idea of the invention. In particular, the present invention relates to a system for selecting subscribers of a lighting system, which comprises an illumination system which contains at least one subscriber, for example an operating device and / or a lighting means, a view direction-coupled A sensor for detecting a subscriber, wherein the viewing direction coupled sensor is adapted to wirelessly read an identification of the detected subscriber.

The viewing direction-coupled sensor comprises, for example, a visual sensor, IR sensor or another suitable sensor with directivity, wherein the sensor is coupled or can be coupled with the viewing direction of a user. For this purpose, the sensor can be installed, for example, in a suitable device, such as a pair of glasses or a helmet, so that it is always aligned according to the viewing direction of the user. The user of the system can now capture and thus select and simultaneously identify this participant by directing his gaze to a participant in the lighting system. Through this quick and easy selection and identification process, it is possible in a short time to select a plurality of subscribers one after the other and to configure these, for example. This considerably simplifies, for example, the installation or maintenance of lighting systems in buildings, since in particular hard to reach participants can be easily selected.

By wirelessly reading the identification, the user easily obtains the information needed to configure and / or manipulate the detected subscriber. The identification can either be read out directly from the detected participant, for example via RFID, or from a marking, for example a number, character, or bar code, on the participant, which lies in the perspective of the user or the viewing direction-coupled sensor. Alternatively, you can the identification based on the visual or other characteristics of the detected participant (in particular its position / coordinates in space, the arrangement in the lighting system, its shape, size or other characteristic features) are read via a wireless network, for example, from a server. For this purpose, a plan of all participants of the lighting system can be stored on a server. Advantageously, the at least one subscriber is provided with a 1D or 2D bar code, and the viewing direction coupled sensor is adapted to read the bar code. The barcode may encode a variety of information and parameters that are readily and easily available to the user (only by directing his gaze to a participant). For example, an identification of the subscriber, a control number and / or configuration parameters can be coded

Advantageously, the viewing direction-coupled sensor is a visual sensor or an IR sensor. Advantageously, the system further comprises an input device for displaying information and for inputting commands for manipulating and / or configuring the identified user. The user of the system can automatically receive the identification of the subscriber on the input device and, based thereon, transmit the commands wirelessly or by wire to the detected subscriber. Advantageously, the input device has at least one touch-sensitive screen. In this case, the user can detect and select a subscriber by directing his gaze to the lighting system. This can be realized, for example, by glasses or a helmet or a helmet camera of the user. The touch-sensitive screen, such as a tablet computer, shows the

Identification of the detected participant and possible commands and control options. The user can easily enter commands with both hands.

Advantageously, the input device is wirelessly connected to the touch-coupled sensor.

Alternatively, the input device is integrated and connected to the viewing direction coupled sensor in a device.

Advantageously, the viewing direction coupled sensor is integrated into a pair of glasses, the glasses are designed to present the input device to a user as augmented reality, and the

Input device by a gesture control of the user operable. This embodiment allows the user a particularly simple and fast selection and configuration or operation of participants of a lighting system. Advantageously, the system further comprises a control device for receiving the commands for manipulating and / or. Configuring the identified subscriber from the input device and controlling the detected subscriber based on the received commands.

Advantageously, the control device is wirelessly and / or wired to the lighting system, for example via a DALI bus, connected.

Advantageously, the control device is wirelessly connected to the input device via a WLAN network or via Bluetooth.

Advantageously, the instructions for manipulating and / or configuring include: instructions for allocating a logical address, for example a manufacturer address, to the identified subscriber or instructions for performing maintenance operations of the identified subscriber.

Advantageously, operating parameters are automatically received and displayed by the input device for an identified subscriber.

The user can thus react quickly to possible deviations of the operating parameters. Advantageously, the operating parameters include the operating period of a lighting means and / or

Temperatures of a control gear. The present invention further relates to a method for selecting subscribers of a lighting system, comprising the steps of detecting at least one subscriber of an illumination system, for example an operating device and / or a light source, by means of a viewing direction coupled sensor, and wirelessly reading an identification of the detected subscriber by the Viewing direction coupled sensor. The method can be carried out by the system according to the invention. The method allows the same advantages as described for the system.

The present invention will now be described in more detail with reference to the attached figures.

Fig. 1 shows an overview of the basic idea of the present invention. Fig. 2 shows a schematic view of a system of the present invention.

Fig. 3 shows a schematic view of a system of the present invention.

Figs. 4-7 show application examples of the present invention.

Fig. 1 clearly shows the basic idea of the present invention. The idea is based on a provided system and a correspondingly executed procedure. The system of the present invention comprises a viewing direction-coupled sensor 1, with which at least one participant 3, 4 of a lighting system 2 can be detected and thus selected. The viewing direction-coupled sensor 1 is, for example, a camera, a visual sensor, an IR sensor, or another sensor with directivity. The sensor 1 is designed so that it is connected to the viewing direction of a user or can be coupled. The sensor 1 can for example be coupled with the viewing direction of a human user by being integrated in a pair of glasses (such as shown in FIG. 1, for example a pair of glasses similar to the project "Google Glass"), a helmet camera or similar device that the user prefers to wear on his head.

The viewing direction-coupled sensor 1 is suitable for detecting a participant 3, 4 of the illumination system 2. In addition, the viewing direction-coupled sensor 1 is designed to wirelessly obtain an identification of the detected subscriber. By way of example, the viewing direction-coupled sensor 1 can read out a 1D or 2D barcode 5 which is assigned to a detected subscriber 3, 4 of the illumination system 2. However, the viewing direction-coupled sensor 1 can also detect and identify a detected participant 3, 4 of an illumination system 2 on the basis of its shape, size, position in space or arrangement in the illumination system. For this purpose, the viewing direction-coupled sensor 1, for example, wirelessly via a network 9 necessary for identification information, such as its current location, the surrounding area and / or all installed participants 3, 4 of a lighting systems 2 and 3.4 all participants in the environment Sensors 1 received. The lighting system 2 can be controlled, manipulated and / or configured via a control device 7. The commands for controlling the illumination system 2, in particular for manipulating and / or configuring the detected participant 3, 4, can be input by the user via an input device 6. The

Input device 6 is advantageously wirelessly connected to the viewing direction coupled sensor 1, but can also be firmly connected to this or even integrated into a device.

For example, the input device may be referred to virtually as an augmented reality, as indicated in FIG. 1, on the spectacle lenses of a pair of spectacles. which contains the viewing direction-coupled sensor 1, are shown. This virtual input device can be superimposed on the reality that the user perceives through the lenses. Instructions for manipulating and / or configuring the detected subscriber 3, 4 can be determined, for example, by a gesture control of the user and transmitted wirelessly via a network 9 to the control device 7 in order to control the identified subscriber 3, 4.

Thus, the user of a system of the present invention can only detect, thus select, and wirelessly read an identification of the subscriber 3, 4 by directing his gaze to a subscriber 3, 4 of the illumination system 2.

Fig. 2 shows a schematic representation of a system of the present invention. The system comprises a lighting system 2, the at least one participant 3, 4 having. A participant 2, 4 is, for example, a light source 3 or a control gear 4. The lighting system 2 may include a plurality of participants 3, 4, for example, each operating device 4, a light source 3 is associated with and connected thereto. However, it is also possible to operate a plurality of lighting means 3 by a control device 4. The illumination system 2 is advantageously connected via an interface to a control device 7. The interface can be wired or wireless. For example, the control device 7 and the operating device 4 are connected via a DALI interface, ie a DALI bus.

The illumination system 2, or each participant 3, 4 of the illumination system 2, is advantageously provided with a readable mark 5, such as a bar code, number code, or most preferably a 1D or 2D bar code 5. The bar code 5 can be read out by the viewing direction-coupled sensor 1. The viewing direction-coupled sensor 1 may include means for decrypting the 1D or 2D barcode 5, such as a microprocessor, to independently perform an identification of the detected subscriber 3, 4 from the barcode 5. The viewing direction-coupled sensor 1 can, however, also be connected wirelessly via a network 9, for example to a server 8, in order to obtain an identification of the subscriber 3, 4 detected by it based on the barcode 5 read out. The viewing direction-coupled sensor 1 can for example be integrated into a cloud and / or connected to a server 8 via a WLAN network, mobile radio network, UMTS network, LTE network or Bluetooth network. On the server 8, information regarding all Subscriber 3, 4 of the lighting system 2 be stored. This includes features such as shape, size, luminosity, luminous color, position in space, orientation, placement in the lighting system, connected participants or similar. The server 8 is either wired or wirelessly connected to the controller 7, preferably via a TCP / IP interface.

The viewing direction-coupled sensor 1 is further connected to an input device 6. The connection can be either wired or wireless. The viewing direction coupled sensor 1 and the

Input device 6 can also be integrated into a single device.

In one example, the viewing direction coupled sensor 1 is incorporated in a helmet camera of the user. The input device may then be, for example, a tablet computer or other device having at least one touch-sensitive screen. The input device 6 is wirelessly connected to the viewing direction-coupled sensor 1.

In another example, the input device 6 is a virtual input device that is projected onto eyeglass lenses of a pair of eyeglasses to create an augmented reality for a user. The viewing direction-coupled sensor 1 is also integrated in the glasses in this example.

A user can via the input device 6 of the system commands for manipulating and / or configuring the lighting system 2, in particular of the detected and identified subscriber 3, 4, to the control device 7, or even directly to the detected participants 3, 4 transmit.

The control device 7 can control the illumination system 2, in particular the selected participants 3, 4, based on the received commands. However, a control of the selected participant 3, 4 can also be done directly, as shown for example in Figure 3. In FIG. 3, each subscriber 3, 4 and also the control device 7 are provided with a suitable Bluetooth device in order to communicate with the viewing direction-coupled sensor 1 or the input device 6 via a Bluetooth network 10. In FIG. 3, the input device is shown integrated with the sensor 1 in an apparatus only by way of example.

Instructions for manipulating and / or configuring may include, for example, allocating a logical address, such as a manufacturer address of the operating device. However, even simpler commands such as on / off, brighter / darker etc. can be entered. For different users, the system may also provide various rights regarding the configuration and / or manipulation of the lighting system 2. Then, for example, a user first has to log on to the input device 6 and / or the viewing direction-coupled sensor 1, for example by entering a

User identification. The corresponding rights can, for example, be read out wirelessly from a server 8 in accordance with the user identification, or stored locally. For example, different rights can be assigned for service personnel, installation personnel or normal users. For example, a normal user can only have on / off and brighter / darker commands submit, whereas for example

Service personnel further configurations such. Commands for performing maintenance operations or allocating logical addresses of the identified subscriber 3, 4 are available.

Fig. 4 shows an application example of the present invention. FIG. 4 shows that an illumination system 2 is provided with a barcode 5, which can be recognized by directing the viewing direction-coupled sensor 1 onto the barcode 5 and is readable. The input device 6 in the example of FIG. 4 is an augmented reality that is superimposed on the user via a projection goggle in the field of view, for example. The barcode 5 contains, for example, information about one

Identification number of the lighting system 2, a control number, a password and

Configuration parameters. Operating parameters, such as the

Operating time duration of the associated light source, temperatures in a detected operating device 4 or other operating parameters can automatically when detecting and identifying a subscriber 3, 4 by the viewing direction-coupled sensor 1 in the

Input device 6 are shown.

As shown in FIG. 5, it can be provided that for the detected subscriber 3, 4, first a

Access authorization of the user is queried. For example, for a subscriber 3, 4 only a certain user group can gain access, for example, information such as operating parameters read out and execute configurations. For example, a service personnel and / or installation personnel may gain access for the maintenance and / or configuration of the subscribers 3, 4, while other users may only perform basic operations such as ON / OFF.

FIG. 6 shows, for example, how basic commands for manipulating and / or configuring the illumination system 2, in particular the detected participant 3, 4, can be input via the input device 6. The commands may e.g. turning on (On), turning off (Off), raising or lowering the brightness of the lighting system 2 (1, 2 or 3, or steplessly as a control slider). The commands may be entered, for example, by gesture control (particularly when augmented reality is used as the input device 6) or via a touch-sensitive screen.

The entered commands are then wired or wireless to the control device 7 of the

Illumination system 2 transmitted. The commands can also be first interpreted by a server 8 and passed to the control device 7, whereby it is possible to set the system to different control devices 7. The input device 6 is advantageously provided with an antenna for wireless transmission of commands and for receiving the detection and identification of the subscribers 3, 4 from the viewing direction-coupled sensor 1.

FIG. 7 shows an example in which different subscribers 3, 4 of a lighting system 2 are displayed and automatically transmitted and displayed operating parameters for a detected participant or all participants. The operating parameters may include a DALI address, the operating time duration, other parameters such as a temperature in the operating device 4 or the lighting means, an applied voltage or current, or the last maintenance date of at least one subscriber 3, 4. It can also be displayed maintenance information. The above parameters can also be displayed only to a specific user group, for example service personnel.

Overall, therefore, a user of the system or method according to the invention by a viewing direction coupled sensor 1 simply the participants 3, 4 of a lighting system 2 detect and identify individually by merely looking at the respective participants 3, 4 directed. Thereafter, the user is optionally automatically presented with operating parameters and possible input commands for the identified subscriber 3, 4, on the basis of which the user can then transmit commands for manipulating and / or configuring the identified subscriber 3, 4 wirelessly to a control device 7 through an input device 6. Various wireless networks can be used for the wireless connection. In principle, a wired communication between the viewing direction-coupled sensor 1 and a control device 7 for the lighting system 2 is also conceivable. For the user, with the system according to the invention, it is easy to select the desired subscribers 3, 4 from a multiplicity of subscribers, for example in an office building, even if the subscribers 3, 4 are installed unfavorably and are therefore difficult to reach. A maintenance or controlling the participants 3, 4 of the lighting system is thereby considerably simplified. This achieves a significant improvement with respect to the known state of the art.

Claims

claims 1. System for selecting subscribers of a Illumination system (2) comprising  a lighting system (2), the at least one Subscriber (3, 4), for example, contains a control gear (4) and / or a light source (3),  a viewing direction coupled sensor (1) for Detecting the at least one subscriber (3, 4},  wherein the viewing direction coupled sensor (1) is adapted to wirelessly read an identification of the detected subscriber (3, 4). 2. System according to claim 1, wherein  the at least one participant (3, 4) is provided with a 1D or 2D barcode (5), and  the direction of view coupled sensor (1) to it is designed to read the bar code (5). 3. System according to one of claims 1 or 2, wherein  the viewing direction coupled sensor (1) is a visual sensor or an IR sensor. 4. System according to one of claims 1 to 3, further comprising  an input device (6) for displaying Information and for inputting commands for manipulating and / or configuring the identified subscriber (3, 4). 5. System according to claim 4, wherein  the input device (6) at least one has touch-sensitive screen. 6. System according to claim 5, wherein  the input device (6) wirelessly with the contact-coupled sensor (1) is connected. 7. System according to claim 4, wherein  the input device (6) with the Viewing direction coupled sensor (1) is integrated in a device and connected. 8. System according to claim 7, wherein  the viewing direction-coupled sensor (1) in one  Glasses is integrated,  the goggles are adapted to present the input device (6) to a user as augmented reality, and  the input device (6) is operable by a gesture control of the user. A system according to any one of claims 4 to 8, further comprising  a control device (7) for receiving the commands for manipulating and / or configuring the identified participant (3, 4) of the Input device (6) and for controlling the detected Subscriber (3, 4) based on the received commands. 10. The system of claim 10, wherein  the control device (7) wirelessly and / or wired with the lighting system (2), For example, via a DALI bus connected. A system according to claim 10 or 11, wherein the control device (7) wirelessly via a LA Network (9) or via Bluetooth (10) with the Input device (6) is connected. 12. A system according to any one of claims 4 to 11, wherein  the instructions for manipulating and / or configuring include: instructions for allocating a logical address, for example a manufacturer address, to the identified participants (3, 4) or commands for Performing maintenance operations of the identified subscriber (3, 4). 13. System according to one of claims ^' to 12,  wherein for an identified subscriber (3, 4) operating parameters are automatically received and displayed by the input device (6). 14. System according to claim 13, wherein the operating parameters include the operating period of a light source (3) and / or temperatures of a control gear (4). 15. Method for selecting subscribers of a Illumination system (2) comprising the steps  Detecting at least one participant (3, 4) of a lighting system, for example an operating device (4) and / or a lighting means (3), by means of a viewing direction-coupled sensor (1)  wirelessly reading an identification of the detected subscriber (3, 4) by the viewing direction-coupled sensor (1).