Philips Lighting Holding B.v.

Signify Holding B.v.

Koninklijke Philips Corporation N.v.

Alexandre Georgievich Sinitsyn

Ingrid Christina Maria Flinsenberg

Leszek Holenderski

Judith Hendrika Maria De Vries

Saeed Reza Bagheri

Ralf Gertruda Hubertus Voncken

Dominika Lekse

Tom Verhoeven

Yi Qiang Yu

Yuan Shu

Johanna Maria De Bont

Parikshit Shah

Dzmitry Viktorovich Aliakseyeu

Antonius Adriaan Maria Staring

Maulin Dahyabhai Patel

Remco Theodorus Johannes Muijs

Paul Anthony Shrubsole

Marc Aoun

Martijn Marius Hultermans

Edith Danielle Den Hartog

Dennis Van De Meulenhof

Annemarie Paulien Buddemeijer-Lock

Wilhelmus Fransiscus Johannes Fontijn

Bram Francois Joosen

Tom Verhoven

Ingrid Christian Maria Flinsenberg

Bert Van Willigen

A lighting system for illuminating an environment, the lighting system comprising a plurality of lighting modules (), the lighting modules comprising a light source () for emitting light, illuminating an area, an acoustic sensor () arranged for sensing noise in the area, a network interface configured to allow the lighting module to send noise data via a network, and a vehicle routing device () comprising: a first network interface () configured to receive noise data from the plurality of lighting modules via the network, a processor circuit arranged to calculate noise metrics for different regions (-) in the environment from the received noise data, compare the calculated noise metric with noise metric threshold values, dependent upon the calculated noise metric exceeding a noise metric threshold value for a particular region, generating a traffic rerouting signal, said traffic rerouting signal causing a traffic routing system to reroute traffic away from said particular region.

Lighting system with traffic rerouting functionality

A lighting system has at least one luminaire () for illuminating a thoroughfare (). At least one sensor () detects that a fallen object () may be at least partially blocking said thoroughfare (). A traffic flow monitor () monitors traffic flow along said thoroughfare (). The light output by the luminaire () is controlled to be of a first pattern in accordance with a determination that a fallen object () is at least partially blocking said thoroughfare (). The light output by the luminaire () is controlled to be of a second pattern in accordance with the traffic flow monitor () determining that traffic is flowing along said thoroughfare ().

Lighting system and method of controlling a lighting system

A pollution estimation system () for estimating pollution level caused by exhaust gas of motor vehicles is provided. The system comprises an acoustic sensor interface () arranged to obtain use-data from an acoustic sensor comprising an audio sample of a motor vehicle sound and a trained exhaust gas model unit () arranged to receive as input the audio sample of the use-data and to apply a trained exhaust gas model to the received audio sample to produce an estimated pollution level associated with the received audio sample. The trained exhaust gas model has been obtained by training an exhaust gas model on multiple training items using a machine learning algorithm, the multiple training items comprising multiple audio samples of motor vehicle sounds obtained from one or more acoustic sensors and associated pollution levels.

Pollution estimation system

A lighting-system () for illuminating an environment, comprising a lighting module (), a sensor () and a lighting-system control device (). The lighting module () comprises a light source () for emitting light, and a programmable controller () configured to control an operation of the light source. The sensor is arranged to obtain sensing data from an area illuminated by the light source (). The lighting-system control device () comprises a processor circuit () configured to apply an activity classifier to the sensing data to obtain an activity classification for the area, to determine lighting control data to change a light spectrum of the light source based on the activity classification, and to transmit the lighting the lighting control data.

Lighting-system and a lighting-system control method

Some embodiments are directed to a microphone calibration system () for multiple microphones (), said microphones being arranged in an area in which moving objects pass the microphones. The system computes a first and second sound profile from first and second sound measurements, said first and second sound profiles being indicative of a calibration of the first and second microphones, and determines a need to calibrate the first or second microphone.

Microphone calibration system

A surveillance system is presented that aims to improve image quality. The surveillance system comprises a plurality of lighting apparatuses comprising one or more lights; a surveillance imaging device arranged to capture image data of a monitored area illuminated by one or more of the lighting apparatuses; an image processor arranged to receive the image data from the surveillance imaging device, wherein the image data comprises a plurality of frames, and the image processor is arranged to analyse each frame of the image data to obtain an image quality parameter for each frame; and a controller arranged to determine a difference between a value of the image quality parameter for a current frame and a reference value of the image quality parameter, wherein if said difference is greater than a threshold value. The controller is arranged to repeat a process of: 1) controlling a lighting parameter of at least one of the plurality of lighting apparatuses so as to change illumination of the monitored area; and 2) determining a new difference between a value of the image quality parameter for a new current frame and the reference value of the image quality parameter; until said new difference is less than or equal to a threshold value.

Control system for a surveillance system, surveillance system and method of controlling a surveillance system

The invention provides A light management system for an outdoor lighting network system, comprising a plurality of outdoor light units wherein at least one light unit includes at least one sensor type, a central management system in communication with light units, said central management system sends control commands to one or more of said outdoor light units, in response to received outdoor light unit status/sensor information from one or more of said outdoor light units and implement a lighting strategy relating to the lighting characteristics of the plurality of outdoor light units, wherein the central management system uses the light unit status/sensor information to form a user's behavior analyses, and determine or estimate or predict the user's motion trajectory and/or position and a change in a user-controlled light use and/or ambient light, and determine whether to modify the lighting strategy and/or reconfigure one or more of the lights units.

Adaptive outdoor lighting control system based on user behavior

A decision support unit for an outdoor lighting network () is disclosed. The outdoor lighting network includes a plurality of lighting units (LU-LU) grouped in a plurality of zones (). The decision support unit includes a controller () including safety monitor module () arranged to determine a safety factor for each of the plurality of zones (). The safety factor for each the plurality of zonesis determined using at least one factor that represents an aspect that contributes to an assessment of each of the plurality of zones' safety. The decision support unit may also include a decision module () that determines a repair priority of a faulty lighting unit (LU-LU) using the safety factors determined by the safety monitor module ().

Decision support system for a lighting network

A computing unit () and a method are provided. The method comprises obtaining data being indicative of operational statuses and geographic positions of a plurality of street devices (), and obtaining region description data for a region in which the street devices are located. Further, the geographic positions and operational statuses of the street devices are correlated with the region description data.

Monitoring of operational status of street devices

A control device () for controlling the environment in a region () within a structure () by means of controlling operation of a control system (), which is adapted to adjust at least one property of the environment in the region (), is disclosed. The control device comprises a user interface () adapted to selectively indicate to a user a range of available values representing at least one property of the environment in the region () that is adjustable by the control system () at least based on presence information of any persons being present within the region () such that the extent of control of the environment in the region () by means of the control device () that is thereby enabled the user is based at least partly on the presence information.

User interface with adaptive extent of user control based on user presence information

Alighting system may include: at least one controller which may be configured to: obtain lighting logging data including feature information related to features of the lighting system and obtained from a plurality of feature spaces; determine lighting prediction data which predicts at least one component failure in the lighting system at a future time in accordance with the lighting logging data and include at least one complex feature; model predicted component failures which are predicted to occur at a future time in accordance with the lighting prediction data and maintenance cost; and/or store the predicted component failures model in a memory.

Intelligent lighting system with predictive maintenance scheduling and method of operation thereof

A lighting system which includes at least one controller which is configured to: obtain lighting logging information related to operation of a lighting system including a plurality of lamps from a lighting logging data portion; model lamp failures in the lighting system in accordance with the lighting logging information in the lighting system and maintenance cost, the model having a time range; predict failures in the lighting system at future times at least in part in accordance with the prediction model; form a graphical user interface (GUI) which includes a graphical depiction of the model; and render the GUI on a rendering device.

A lighting system comprising light sources for illuminating an area and a control unit adapted to control the light sources. The control unit has a user interface allowing a user to select a light scene. The user interface has a screen for displaying information to the user. The control unit is adapted to control the user interface to display selected content on the screen, which content is selected such that light emitted from the screen during display of the content contributes to the selected light scene. When the screen is used in this way, i.e. as a part of the light scene created by the lighting system, the screen enhances the light scene and the risk of the screen interfering with the light scene is reduced, resulting in an improved user experience.

Lighting system having a controller that contributes to a selected light scene, and a method for controlling such a system

An apparatus for reading or writing user data stored block-wise in encrypted form on a storage medium. The apparatus includes a command interface for receiving and interpreting a read (or write) command. The read command includes a user data information specifying which user data are to be read. A reader reads the user data and a related encryption indicator from a block of the storage medium. The encryption indicator indicates if said user data is encrypted or not. The reader further reads a related key data identifier specifying which key data to use for decrypting the user data if said encryption indicator indicates that said user data are encrypted. A decryptor decrypts the user data using the key data.

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Veldhoven, Netherlands

Alexandre Georgievich Sinitsyn