JP2011029053A - Illumination system - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an illumination system in which setting regarding lighting of an illumination fixture can be carried out easily by using a portable terminal such as a mobile phone as a remote control transmitter. <P>SOLUTION: In a database 5 of a Web server 4 on a network, an application for illumination fixture operation is stored, and from the Web application server 4, the portable terminal 3 as the remote control transmitter downloads the application for illumination fixture operation stored in a database 5 of the Web application server 4. Then, according to the downloaded application for the illumination fixture operation, a signal for setting is emitted, and by receiving that signal by the illumination fixture 2, the setting regarding the lighting is carried out. By this, it becomes possible to simply set the lighting regarding the lighting of the illumination fixture 2. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a lighting system including a lighting fixture and a mobile terminal such as a mobile phone as a remote control transmitter.

  To be able to operate and use the lighting fixture with the remote control, prepare a remote control transmitter that can operate the lighting fixture on the lighting fixture side (manufacturer side) and bundle it with the lighting fixture or sell it separately It becomes possible. However, the provision of a remote control transmitter incurs a corresponding cost, which causes an increase in the price of the luminaire. As a solution to this problem, for example, an illumination control system described in Patent Document 1 is known. In this lighting control system, since a portable terminal such as a mobile phone is used as a remote control transmitter, the price of the lighting fixture can be reduced by not using a dedicated remote control transmitter.

  The illumination control system described in Patent Document 1 includes a data creation device that creates dimming data and enables bidirectional communication with a mobile terminal. The data creation device is provided with at least data related to the luminaire, data about the space in which the luminaire is installed, and data about the person existing in the space, and creates light control data according to these data. The basic data necessary for the calculation is processed, and dimming data adapted to each user individually is created. The mobile terminal accesses the data creation device via the network, transmits data input by the user of the mobile terminal to the data creation device, and then downloads the light control data created by the data creation device. And the lighting fixture is controlled using the downloaded light control data. The data creation device is mainly installed on the lighting equipment seller side.

JP 2005-216534 A

  However, in the lighting control system disclosed in Patent Document 1 described above, although a mobile terminal such as a mobile phone is used as a remote control transmitter, data input by operating the mobile terminal is transmitted to the data creation device, Based on the input data, the data creation device calculates the dimming data, transmits the dimming data obtained by this calculation to the portable terminal, and controls the luminaire. There was a problem of being complicated.

  The present invention has been made in view of such circumstances, and an object of the present invention is to provide an illumination system in which a portable terminal such as a mobile phone is used as a remote control transmitter and settings relating to lighting of a lighting fixture can be easily performed. And

  The lighting system of the present invention downloads an application for operating lighting fixtures from a server in advance via a network, activates the application and operates an operation unit, and transmits a setting signal, A lighting device that receives a setting signal from the portable terminal and performs setting related to lighting based on the signal.

  According to the above configuration, the application for operating the lighting fixture is stored in the server on the network, and the portable terminal as the remote control transmitter downloads the application for operating the lighting fixture stored in this server, and Therefore, the lighting device receives the setting signal transmitted from the portable terminal and performs the setting related to lighting based on the signal, so that the setting related to lighting of the lighting device can be easily performed. Can do.

  Moreover, the said structure WHEREIN: The said lighting fixture alert | reports reception of the signal for a setting from the said portable terminal by the light source for illumination.

  According to the said structure, it can confirm that the signal for a setting was normally sent to the lighting fixture.

  Moreover, the said structure WHEREIN: The said lighting fixture transmits the signal which shows the setting state of the said lighting fixture to the said portable terminal.

  According to the said structure, the present setting state of a lighting fixture can be confirmed.

  The present invention can easily perform setting related to lighting of a lighting fixture.

The figure which shows the system configuration | structure of the illumination system which concerns on one embodiment of this invention. The block diagram which shows schematic structure of the lighting fixture of the lighting system of FIG. The figure showing an example of the lighting control of the lamp by the sensor control part of the lighting fixture of the lighting system of FIG. The block diagram which shows schematic structure of the portable terminal of the illumination system of FIG. The figure which shows the initial screen at the time of the application for lighting fixture operation in the portable terminal of the lighting system of FIG. The figure which shows the setting screen at the time of the application for lighting fixture operation in the portable terminal of the lighting system of FIG. The figure which shows the setting confirmation screen at the time of the application for lighting fixture operation in the portable terminal of the lighting system of FIG. The sequence diagram which shows the delivery process of the application for lighting fixture operation in the lighting system of FIG. The flowchart which shows the operation | movement at the time of the application execution of the portable terminal in the illumination system of FIG. The flowchart which shows operation | movement of the lighting fixture in the lighting system of FIG.

  DESCRIPTION OF EXEMPLARY EMBODIMENTS Hereinafter, preferred embodiments for carrying out the invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

  FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a system configuration of an illumination system according to an embodiment of the present invention. In the figure, the lighting system 1 according to the present embodiment includes one or a plurality of lighting fixtures 2 (indicated by one in FIG. 1) capable of dimming control, a portable terminal 3 capable of controlling the lighting fixture 2, A Web server 4 installed on the vendor side of the lighting fixture 2 such as a manufacturer, a sales company, or a data creation company established separately from them, and a plurality of types of applications for operating the lighting fixture connected to the Web server 4 are stored. The database 5 includes the Internet 6 and the mobile communication network 7 that connect the mobile terminal 3 and the Web server 4 to each other. Hereinafter, each is demonstrated in detail in order of the lighting fixture 2, the portable terminal 3, and the Web server 4. FIG.

  FIG. 2 is a block diagram illustrating a schematic configuration of the lighting fixture 2. In the figure, the luminaire 2 includes a pyroelectric sensor 21, a brightness sensor 22, an infrared light receiving unit 23, an infrared light transmitting unit 24, a sensor detecting unit 25, a sensor control unit 26, a storage unit 27, a clock unit 28, and a lamp ( Light source) 29. The pyroelectric sensor 21 detects infrared rays radiated from an object such as a human body. When the living body moves in the field of view of the pyroelectric sensor 21, the distribution of the amount of infrared energy changes, and this is detected by the pyroelectric sensor 21. The brightness sensor 22 detects ambient brightness and outputs a signal having a level corresponding to the amount of light. For the brightness sensor 22, a phototransistor, a photodiode, or the like is used. The infrared light receiving unit 23 includes an infrared light receiving element such as a CdS (cadmium sulfide) cell, receives a signal transmitted using infrared rays, converts the signal into an electric signal, and outputs the electric signal. The infrared light transmitting unit 24 includes an infrared light emitting element such as an infrared diode, and converts an electrical signal into infrared light and transmits the infrared light.

  The sensor detection unit 25 takes in signals output from the pyroelectric sensor 21, the brightness sensor 22, and the infrared light receiving unit 23, and outputs them to the sensor control unit 26. The sensor detection unit 25 converts the setting information from the sensor control unit 26 into an electrical signal and outputs the electrical signal to the infrared light transmission unit 24. The sensor control unit 26 receives the infrared code signal from the sensor detection unit 25 and performs settings related to the lighting of the lamp 29. At this time, the sensor control unit 26 also uses time information from the clock unit 28.

FIG. 3 shows an example of lighting control of the lamp 29 by the sensor control unit 26.
(A) When the surroundings are bright, the lamp 29 is turned off, and in the evening, when the surroundings become darker than the preset brightness, the lamp 29 is turned on about 20%.
(B) If the person 100 is detected while the lamp 29 is in a slightly lighted state of about 20%, the lamp 29 is turned on with a brightness of 100%.
(C) After that, when the person 100 disappears, the light is again turned on by about 20%.

(D) At midnight, when the preset time is reached, the lamp 29 is turned off.
(E) When the person 100 is detected in the state (d), the lamp 29 is turned on with 100% brightness.
(F) In the state of (e), that is, when the person 100 is detected and the lamp 29 is lit at 100% brightness and the state continues for a preset time or longer, the lamp 29 is brought into a flash state for 10 seconds. To do.
(G) When the person 100 disappears from the state of (e) or (f), the lamp 29 is turned off after the lighting holding time.
(H) When the state (g) is set, the lamp 29 is not turned on even when the person 100 approaches.

The following setting items are provided so that the lighting operations (a) to (h) can be used in accordance with the user.
(1) “Brightness around the lamp 29”
Brightness setting to switch from daytime operation to nighttime operation (2) “Meeting time”
In the evening, set the time to automatically turn off after starting to turn on automatically (3) “Flash start time”
Time setting for how long to detect a person and flash the lamp 29

  The sensor control unit 26 changes the settings (1) to (3) every time an infrared code signal transmitted from the mobile terminal 3 is received. In this case, an infrared code signal transmitted from the portable terminal 3 is received by the infrared light receiving unit 23 provided in the sensor detection unit 25. Further, when the infrared code from the portable terminal 3 can be normally received, the lamp 29 is blinked in order to notify that the infrared code has been normally received. Moreover, the sensor control part 26 memorize | stores the setting content in the memory | storage part 27, whenever it performs the setting of said (1)-(3). When there is a request for confirming the settings (1) to (3) from the mobile terminal 3, the setting content stored in the storage unit 27 is read out, and the infrared light transmission unit 24 provided in the sensor detection unit 25. Send from.

  The storage unit 27 is preferably a non-volatile, rewritable RAM, flash memory, EPROM, EEPROM, or the like. As the lamp 29, an incandescent bulb, a bulb-type fluorescent lamp, or an LED (light emitting diode) is used.

  FIG. 4 is a block diagram illustrating a schematic configuration of the mobile terminal 3. In the figure, the mobile terminal 3 includes an antenna 30, a communication unit 31, an application storage unit 32, a control unit 33, a user information input unit 34 that is an operation unit, a display unit 35, an infrared light receiving unit 36, and an infrared light transmitting unit 36. Have. The communication unit 31 has a network communication function for communicating by connecting to the Internet or an intranet, in addition to a telephone function as a normal mobile phone. The network communication function connects to the Internet 6 using TCP / IP (Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol).

  The application storage unit 32 stores a lighting fixture operation application downloaded by the communication unit 31 from the Web server 4. The application storage unit 32 is preferably a non-volatile, rewritable RAM, flash memory, EPROM, EEPROM, or the like. The control unit 33 controls each unit constituting the mobile terminal 3. When there is an instruction to download an application for operating the lighting fixture from the user information input unit 34, the control unit 33 controls the communication unit 31 to download the application for operating the lighting fixture from the Web server 4 and store the application. Store in the unit 32. In this case, the communication unit 31 accesses the Web server 4 via the mobile communication network 7 and the Internet 6 and downloads an application for operating the lighting fixture stored in the database 5. The control unit 33 activates the downloaded application for operating the luminaire and performs settings related to lighting of the luminaire 2.

  When an application for operating the lighting fixture is activated, an initial screen of the user interface as shown in FIG. 5 is displayed on the display unit 35 of the portable terminal 3. On this initial screen, at least a setting button 200, a setting confirmation button 201, and an end button 202 are displayed. When the setting button 200 is selected, a user interface setting screen as shown in FIG. 6 is displayed. On this setting screen, messages “300 to 302” of “lighting ambient brightness”, “greeting time”, and “flash start time” are displayed, and setting values corresponding to the messages 300 to 302 are input. Input buttons 303 to 305 to be displayed are displayed. In addition, a transmission button 306 for transmitting each set value and a return button 307 for returning to the initial screen are displayed at the same time. From the user information input unit 34, the user inputs values for performing settings related to lighting of the lighting fixture 2 such as “lighting ambient brightness”, “greeting time”, and “flash start time”. In the state shown in FIG. 6, each setting value is “5 lux (lux)” for “lighting ambient brightness”, “6 hours” for “greeting time”, and “immediately” for “flash start time”. ing. After inputting each value for performing settings related to lighting of the lighting fixture 2, each value is converted into an infrared code by pressing a transmission button 306, and transmitted from the infrared light transmitting unit 37. Note that the return button 307 is pressed to return to the initial screen from the setting screen.

  On the other hand, when the setting confirmation button 201 is selected on the initial screen shown in FIG. 5, a user interface setting confirmation screen as shown in FIG. 7 is displayed. Then, by selecting the setting confirmation button 201, an infrared code for confirming the current setting state of the lighting fixture 2 is generated and transmitted from the infrared light transmitting unit 37. From when the infrared code for confirming the setting state is transmitted until the setting state can be received, as shown in FIG. 7A, “brightness of lighting around”, “greeting time” "***" is displayed for each message 400 to 402 of "" and "flash start time". When the current setting state converted into the infrared code is transmitted from the lighting fixture 2 by the transmission of the infrared code for confirming the setting state, the infrared light receiving unit 36 receives the current setting state. Then, the setting contents are restored from the received infrared code, and as shown in FIG. 7B, each message 400 of “lighting ambient brightness”, “greeting time”, and “flash start time” is displayed. Current setting values are displayed for .about.402. In (b) of FIG. 7, “brightness of lighting around” is displayed as “5 lux”, “greeting time” is “6 hours”, and “flash start time” is “immediately”. Note that the return button 403 is pressed to return to the initial screen from the setting confirmation screen.

  The infrared light receiving unit 36 includes an infrared light receiving element such as a CdS (cadmium sulfide) cell, receives a signal transmitted using infrared light, converts the signal into an electric signal, and outputs the electric signal. The infrared light transmitting unit 37 includes an infrared light emitting element such as an infrared diode, and converts an electrical signal into infrared rays and transmits the infrared signal.

  Returning to FIG. 1, the Web server 4 is a computer having a network control function, and includes a CPU (not shown), a program memory storing a program for controlling the CPU, a work memory used in the operation of the CPU, And a communication unit controlled by the CPU. The Web server 4 performs bidirectional communication with the portable terminal 3 via the Internet 6 and the mobile communication network 7. When there is a request to download an application for operating the lighting fixture from the mobile terminal 3, the application for operating the lighting fixture is made downloadable with reference to the database 5. The portable terminal 3 accesses the Web server 4 via the mobile communication network 7 and the Internet 6 and downloads the lighting fixture operation application stored in the database 5.

Next, operation | movement of the illumination system 1 which concerns on this Embodiment is demonstrated using figures.
FIG. 8 is a sequence diagram illustrating distribution processing of an application for operating a lighting fixture in the lighting system 1. In the figure, after the connection is established between the mobile terminal 3 and the Web server 4, the mobile terminal 3 accesses the top page (S1). The Web server 4 creates a top page in response to access to the top page of the mobile terminal 3, and transmits it to the mobile terminal 3 (S2). In creating the top page, a language that can be used on a Web page such as an HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language) language is used.

  When receiving the top page transmitted from the Web server 4, the portable terminal 3 displays the top page on the display unit 35 (S3). On this top page, the file name of the application for operating the lighting fixture is displayed. When the user of the portable terminal 3 performs an operation of selecting an application, an application download request is transmitted to the Web server 4 (S4). When there is an application download request from the mobile terminal 3, the Web server 4 creates an application list and transmits it to the mobile terminal 3 (S5). When the portable terminal 3 receives the application list from the Web server 4, it displays it on the display unit 35. The user looks at the application list displayed on the display unit 35 and selects a desired one (an application dedicated to the lighting fixture 2) (S6). By this selection operation, the Web server 4 transmits information for confirming whether or not the selected application may be distributed to the portable terminal 3 (S7).

  When receiving the delivery confirmation information from the Web server 4, the portable terminal 3 displays a screen for confirming whether or not delivery is possible on the display unit 35. The user views this screen and inputs “OK” if it is OK, and inputs “NG” if it is NG (S8). When receiving “OK” from the mobile terminal 3, the Web server 4 starts downloading (S9). In addition, when “NG” is received from the mobile terminal 3, the Web server 4 does not start downloading but creates an application list again and transmits it to the mobile terminal 3.

  FIG. 9 is a flowchart showing the operation of the portable terminal 3 in the lighting system 1 when executing the application. In the figure, first, an application downloaded from the Web server 4 is activated (S20). After starting the application, the initial screen shown in FIG. 5 is displayed. It is determined whether there is an input while the initial screen is displayed (S21). That is, it is determined whether the setting button 200 or the setting confirmation button 201 is operated. If there is no input, it is determined whether or not the end button 202 has been operated (S22). If the end button 202 has not been operated, the process returns to S21, and if it has been operated, this process ends (S23).

  If there is an input in the determination of S21, it is determined whether or not the input is a setting (S24). That is, it is determined whether the setting button 200 has been operated. If the input is a setting, the setting screen shown in FIG. 6 is displayed and the setting value is captured (S25). The user views the setting screen and inputs the set values of “brightness of lighting around”, “greeting time”, and “flash start time”.

  Then, it is determined whether or not the setting value has been captured (S26). If the setting value has not been captured, that is, if the input of each setting value has not been completed by the user, it is determined whether or not the return button 307 has been operated. (S27). If the return button 307 is not operated, the process returns to S25, and if the return button 307 is operated, the process returns to the initial screen (S31).

  When the setting value has been captured, that is, when the input of each setting value by the user has been completed, it is determined whether or not the transmission button 306 has been operated (S28). If the transmission button 306 is not operated, the process returns to S25, and if the transmission button 306 is operated, the input set value is converted into an infrared code and transmitted to the lighting fixture 2 (S29). After transmitting the set value, the screen returns to the initial screen (S30).

  On the other hand, if the input is not set in the determination of S24, it is determined whether or not the current setting state of “lighting ambient brightness”, “greeting time”, and “flash start time” is confirmed (S32). . In the case of confirmation of the current setting state, the setting value confirmation request is converted into an infrared code and transmitted to the luminaire 2 (S33). After transmitting the setting value confirmation request, it is determined whether or not the current setting state has been received (S34). If the current setting state cannot be received, the determination in S34 is repeated until it can be received, and the current setting state is thus determined. Is received, as shown in FIG. 7B, the current set values corresponding to the “lighting ambient brightness”, “greeting time”, and “flash start time” are displayed ( S35).

  Next, it is determined whether or not the return button 403 has been operated (S36). If the return button 403 has not been operated, the determination of S36 is repeated until it is operated, and if the return button 403 is operated, the initial screen is returned ( S37). If it is determined in S32 that the current setting state is not confirmed, it is determined whether or not the end button 202 has been operated (S38). If the end button 202 has not been operated, the process returns to S24 and the end button 202 is operated. If this is the case, the present process is terminated (S39).

  FIG. 10 is a flowchart showing the operation of the lighting fixture 2 in the lighting system 1. In the figure, first, it is determined whether or not there is a signal input (S50). If there is no signal input, other processing is performed (S51), and then the process returns to the determination of S50 again. Here, the other processes are lighting operations (a) to (h) shown in FIG.

  If there is a signal input in the determination in S50, it is determined whether or not it is a set value (S52). If the input signal is a set value, it is determined whether it has been received normally (S53). If it is not received normally, the process returns to S50. If it is received normally, the lamp 29 is blinked for a predetermined time (S54) to notify the user that the set value has been successfully received. Thereafter, the setting values of “lighting ambient brightness”, “greeting time”, and “flash start time” stored in the storage unit 27 are updated to the currently received setting values (S55).

  If it is determined in S52 that the input signal is not a set value, it is determined whether or not it is a set value confirmation request (S56). If it is a set value confirmation request, the “lighting” stored in the storage unit 27 is turned on. Each set value of “ambient brightness”, “greeting time”, and “flash start time” is converted into an infrared code and transmitted to the portable terminal 3 (S57). On the other hand, if the input signal is not a set value confirmation request, no processing is performed and the process directly returns to S50.

  As described above, according to the lighting system 1 of the present embodiment, the application for operating the lighting fixture is stored in the database 5 of the Web server 4 on the network, and the portable terminal 3 as the remote control transmitter is stored in the database of the Web server 4. The application for operating the lighting fixture stored in 5 is downloaded from the Web server 4. And since the signal for a setting is transmitted according to the downloaded application for operation of a lighting fixture, and the lighting fixture 2 receives the signal and performs the setting regarding lighting, the setting regarding lighting of the lighting fixture 2 can be performed easily. it can. In other words, once the mobile terminal 3 acquires an application for operating the lighting fixture from the Web server 4, the setting related to lighting of the lighting fixture 2 can be easily performed on the mobile terminal 3 side.

  Further, since the lighting fixture 2 notifies that the setting signal from the portable terminal 3 has been received by the lighting lamp 29 by blinking, the user has successfully sent the setting signal to the lighting fixture 2. I can confirm that.

  Moreover, since the lighting fixture 2 transmits the signal which shows the setting state of a lighting fixture to the portable terminal 3, the user can confirm the present setting state of the lighting fixture 2. FIG.

  In the above embodiment, infrared rays are used for communication between the portable terminal 3 and the lighting fixture 2, but infrared data communication standards (IrDA), RF (Radio Frequency), Bluetooth (registered trademark), and wireless LAN standards. (IEEE 802.11) and the like are also conceivable.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Lighting system 2 Lighting fixture 3 Portable terminal 4 Web server 5 Database 6 Internet 7 Mobile communication network 21 Pyroelectric sensor 22 Brightness sensor 23 Infrared light receiving part 24 Infrared light transmission part 25 Sensor detection part 26 Sensor control part 27 Storage part 28 Clock unit 29 Lamp 30 Antenna 31 Communication unit 32 Application storage unit 33 Control unit 34 User information input unit 35 Display unit 36 Infrared light receiving unit 37 Infrared light transmitting unit

Claims (3)

A mobile terminal that transmits a signal for setting by downloading an application for operating a lighting fixture from a server in advance via a network, starting the application, and operating the operation unit;
A lighting device that receives a setting signal from the mobile terminal and performs settings related to lighting based on the signal;
With lighting system.   The lighting system according to claim 1, wherein the lighting fixture notifies the reception of a setting signal from the portable terminal using a light source for lighting.   The lighting system according to claim 1, wherein the lighting fixture transmits a signal indicating a setting state of the lighting fixture to the portable terminal.

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