Philips Lighting Holding B.v.

Nanyang Technological University

Singapore Technologies Dynamics Pte Ltd

Daiqin Yang

Lei Feng

Zhigang Chen

Mudasser Iqbal

Talha Obaid

Hock Beng Lim

Teng Jie Ng

A method of selecting and controlling devices based on wireless communication technology. The wireless controller sends a probe message to one or more devices; each device receives the probe message, obtains information in respect of its relative position with respect to the wireless controller, determines a response time to respond according to a first predefined rule, based on its relative position information: detects response signals from other devices before expiration of the response time; decides whether to send or not to send its response signal according to a second predefined rule and the detecting procedure of response signals from other devices; the wireless controller receives response signals sent by the devices after the comparison of the relative position information of each device with respect to the wireless controller, and selects the target devices from the devices. Embodiments of the present invention reduce the complexity, delay and energy consumption of the selection for wireless devices, and are especially applicable for wireless lighting systems.

Methods for selecting and controlling devices

The invention provides a systemfor providing wireless control on an electronic device. The systemcomprises a control stationand a wireless device. The control stationis configured to send a wireless exciting signal and a wireless control command. The wireless devicecomprises an exciter moduleand a processor modulewherein the exciter moduleis configured to collect power from the wireless exciting signal and subsequently change a state of the processor modulefrom an inactive state to an active state, and the processor moduleis configured to receive the control command and adjust functions of the electronic devicein accordance with the control command. The invention also provides a method and a wireless device.

System and method for providing wireless control on an electronic device

According to an embodiment, a sensor device is provided comprising a sensor; a transceiver; a processor configured to run an application; and a virtualization layer which comprises an application programming interface encapsulating application layer features of the sensor device and which is configured to provide to the application, via at least one service access point, a service to communicate with another sensor device by means of the transceiver, a service to control the sensor and a service to discover a sensor device network, have the sensor device leave a sensor device network and/or have the sensor device join a sensor device network.

Network sensor device

An apparatus for interconnecting multiple computer networks, each computer network using a different protocol suite and comprising multiple nodes, the apparatus being a node of each computer network, the apparatus comprising: a transceiver configured to receive data from any node of any one of the multiple computer networks, the received data being for transmission to a node of a different one of the multiple computer networks; and a processor configured to identify the node of the different one of the multiple computer networks based on the received data, to determine a protocol suite of the different one of the multiple computer networks using the memory, to process the received data so that the received data appears to have been transmitted according to the determined protocol suite, and to cause the transceiver to transmit the processed received data to the node of the different one of the multiple computer networks.

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