Geert Bart Neuttiens

Title: Geert Bart Neuttiens and Lighting-Control Innovation.

Introduction

Geert Bart Neuttiens is an inventor based in Hillegem, Belgium. His listed patent concerns sensor communication for lighting-control systems and describes a way to detect and avoid interference between active sensors.

Latest Patents

Neuttiens is associated with 1 patent, titled “Control of Lighting Devices.” The invention considers a network of active sensors that provide presence-detection information to a distributed lighting system. Sensors communicate by transmitting probe signals, but those signals can cause cross-interference that changes over time.

The patent describes detecting interference by comparing signals received in two parts of a timeslot. To support this comparison, probe signals contain two non-zero pulses transmitted in the respective parts. The approach is intended for active presence sensors used in indoor and outdoor lighting-control applications.

Career Highlights

Neuttiens is associated with Koninklijke Philips N.V. His patent reflects work on coordinating sensor communications in lighting systems, with the aim of making presence detection more reliable when multiple active sensors operate together.

Collaborations

The supplied information identifies Wijnand Johannes Rietman and David Ricardo Caicedo Fernández as Neuttiens’s coworkers. Their specific roles in the patent or related work are not provided.

Conclusion

Geert Bart Neuttiens’s listed invention addresses a practical challenge in sensor-based lighting control by providing a method to detect and avoid changing interference between probe signals.