Koninklijke Philips Corporation N.v.

Signify Holding B.v.

Philips Lighting Holding B.v.

Engel Johannes Knibbe

Mareike K Klee

Mark Henricus Verberkt

Xiangyu Wang

Stephanus Joseph Johannes Nijssen

Emmanuel David Lucas Michael Frimout

Cornelis Antonius Verbakel

Onno Martin Janssen

Hans Van Amstel

Ronald Dekker

Peter Dirksen

Lorenzo Feri

Tim Corneel Wilhelmus Schenk

Willem Franke Pasveer

Klaus Reimann

Lei Feng

Olaf Wunnicke

Derk Reefman

Roger Peter Anna Delnoij

Stefan Marcus Verbrugh

Biju Kumar Sreedharan Nair

Petrus Johannes Lenoir

Ruediger Mauczok

Hongxin Chen

Dan Jiang

Yong Zeng

Willem Piet Van Hoof

Henri Marie Joseph Boots

John Brean Mills

Christina Adriana Renders

Xin Ge

Eric Johannus Hendricus Cornelis Maria Nieuwlands

Johan Wilhelmus Hermanus Kuppen

Florian Stadler

Remco Alphonsus Hendrikus Breen

Michael David Simpson

Eric Johannes Hendricus Cornelius Maria Nieuwlands

Noël François Leopold Bonné

Alexander Ertz

Leo Verhees

Theodoor H Stommen

Harry Van Esch

Marco De Wild

Peter Johannes Lenoir

Chris Van Heesch

Johannes Cornelis Augustus Franciscus Maria Van Gardigen

Mareike Klee

Noël François Leopold BonnÉ

Johannes Cornelis A F M Van Gardingen

The invention relates to a system and methods for providing conditional access to indoor location information in a system comprising a mobile device (), a positioning webservice () and an authorization authority (), the method comprising: the mobile device () performing the steps of: transmitting license information to the authorization authority () and transmitting a request for indoor location information to the positioning webservice, the request comprising a request-location-estimate corresponding to a location estimate of the mobile device () at the time of making the request, the authorization authority () performing the steps of: receiving the license information, verifying whether the license information authorizes access to indoor location information by the mobile device (), issuing a secure proof, verifiable by the positioning webservice () upon successful verification, the secure proof indicating that the license information authorizes access to indoor location information by the mobile device () for an authorized region; the positioning webservice () performing the steps of: receiving the request for indoor location information and the secure proof; verifying whether the secure proof authorizes the transmission of indoor location information to the mobile device () for the request-location-estimate; and upon successful verification sending indoor location information for the request-location-estimate to the mobile device ().

Methods and systems for providing conditional access to indoor location information

The present invention provides a method for commissioning of nodes of a network. The method comprises the steps of (S) receiving, at a first node () of the network, at least one indication message including identification information of a second node () of the network; (S) receiving, at the first node (), parameter information indicating a parameter sensed with at least one parameter sensor associated with the first node (); (S) determining whether the at least one indication message and the parameter information temporarily correlate; and (S), if a correlation is determined, adding correlation information about the second node () to a register table of the first node ().

Method and device for commissioning of nodes of a network

A lighting system comprises multiple luminaries () installed at known locations in an environment. Each is configured to emit a unique luminaire identifier (ID) into the environment. A database () holds multiple location identifiers, each of which identifies one of the known locations. A route (rA, rB, rC, rD) through the environment is identified based on the location identifiers, the route traversing a plurality of the known locations. Data generated by moving a photodetector () along the route though the environment is received, the data conveying a sequence of the luminaire identifiers detected by the photodetector from luminaries encountered in moving along the route, the sequence being in order of detection. A database update is performed by, for at least one luminaire identifier in the sequence: identifying its position in the sequence, and updating the database based on the at least one luminaire identifier and its identified position in the sequence.

Maintaining a lighting system

A remote control device for controlling lighting systems includes a sensor configured to determine a location of the remote control device in relation to the lighting systems. A controller is configured to determine a nearest light source of the lighting systems relative to the location of the remote control device and to control this nearest light source. The controller is configured to change a configuration of the remote control device in response to changing its location. A transceiver transmit a signal to multiple light sources which measure the strength and/or time of flight of this signal for use in determining the location of the remote control device. The light sources provide the remote control device with identifying information unique to each one of them including their locations.

User interface with position awareness

A pole (), such as a street light or a traffic light, can, for example, break due to being hit by a car or bend due to being exposed to high winds. A system () for detecting physical deformation of a pole () comprises a signal processor () coupled to an antenna () arranged to receive a wireless signal (). The signal processor () determines position data based on the wireless signal (). A processor () analyzes position data to determine whether there is a variation between first position data relating to a first time period and second position data relating to a subsequent time period. When the pole () has been physically deformed between the first and the second time period, the first and second position data will vary and the processor determines that the pole has been physically deformed.

System and method for detecting physical deformation of a pole

A light system for a stadium, the light system comprising: at least one sensor configured to determine light intensity values for multiple locations within the stadium; at least one electronically controllable luminaire configured to generate light directed towards at least one location of the multiple locations within the stadium based on a received control parameter; a controller configured to receive the light intensity values from the at least one sensor, further configured to determine a light intensity difference based on the light intensity values from the multiple locations within the stadium, and configured to select the at least one electronically controllable luminaire and generate the control parameter for the least one electronically controllable luminaire based on the light intensity difference to attempt to reduce the light intensity difference.

Lighting system for a stadium

A system and method for providing directional information to a user using existing infrastructure elements () is disclosed. The method comprising determining a route of infrastructure elements () between a current location and a remote location, wherein the current location is associated a first element in the route and the last element in the route being closest to the remote location, wherein each of the elements in the route are identified by at least one of: a physical identification and a data identification, and providing a visual indication, progressively, to each of the infrastructure elements in the route at a predetermined time and for a determined period, wherein the progressive display of the visual indication provides for direction control information.

Streetwise navigation system using infrastructure elements

A remote control device () for controlling lighting systems includes a sensor () configured to determine a location of the remote control device () in relation to the lighting systems (). A controller () is configured to determine a nearest light source () of the lighting systems () relative to the location of the remote control device () and to control this nearest light source (). The controller () is configured to change a configuration of the remote control device () in response to changing its location. A transceiver () transmit a signal to multiple light sources () which measure the strength and/or time of flight of this signal for use in determining the location of the remote control device (). The light sources () provide the remote control device () with identifying information unique to each one of them including their locations.

A method () of controlling an outdoor lighting system, a computer program product, a controlling device for controlling an outdoor lighting system and an outdoor lighting system are provided. The outdoor lighting system comprises outdoor lamps which are distributed over spatial segments of an outdoor space. The emitted light intensity of the outdoor lamps is controllable per spatial segment, and references are used to refer to specific spatial segments. The method () comprises the steps of (i) receiving () from a detection system an indication of a sub-area of the outdoor space and receiving at least one activity property or the sub-area, the detection system being arranged for detecting activity in the sub-area, the sub-area being different from all the spatial segments, and the indication being used to refer to the sub-area, and the at least one activity property being related to a traffic density in the sub-area (ii) mapping () the at least one indication to at least one reference of a respective spatial segment, (iii) determining () a light intensity level for the respective at least one spatial segment in dependence on the received at least one activity property, (iv) providing () the at least one reference together with the respective determined light intensity to the outdoor lighting system.

Methods of controlling an outdoor lighting system

According to the present invention, a light guidance system for adapted illumination in emergency or power cut situations is provided, wherein the light guidance system is connected to an auxiliary power supply system () and comprises at least one light unit () adapted to emit light for illuminating surroundings and a control unit adapted to increase a light level of the light unit () according to a presence signal indicating the presence of a person, wherein the increasing of the light level is adjusted to enable a mandatory lighting period and a mandatory light level by considering a power value of the auxiliary power supply system ().

Light guiding system and a method for controlling the same

Commissioning a coded light source in a lighting system is accomplished by using a remote controller. When an identification of a light source is successful, a control message is sent to that light source to at least partly switch off its light emission. Thus the light contribution of the identified light source is suppressed. Thereby the chance of coded light from an already identified light source colliding with identifiers comprised in coded light emitted by other light sources is reduced. When no more coded light is detectable, a sensitivity of the remote controller can be increased until coded light again is detectable. Further light sources can then be identified and commissioned.

Commissioning coded light sources

The invention provides a method, apparatus and computer program product for ensuring that a device () operable in a network () is configured to operate according to documented functional requirements for the network. Positional information comprising the coordinates of each device () in the network () is received via a gateway () at a data processing apparatus () storing the documented functional requirements. The coordinates of each device () in the network () are used to deduce the required functionality of the device based on the stored functional requirements, instructions for implementing the functionality are generated and the instructions are sent via the gateway () to the network. The invention has particular relevance in the commissioning stage of a lighting control network.

Apparatus and method of configuring a device in a network

A transducer () is provided where a membrane () is formed over a front substrate (); and a piezoelectric layer () is formed over the membrane () at an active portion () and peripheral portions located adjacent the active portion (). A patterned conductive layer including first and second electrodes () is formed over the piezoelectric layer (). Further, a back substrate structure is provided having supports () located at the peripheral portions adjacent the active portion (). The height () of the supports () is greater than a combined height () of the patterned piezoelectric layer and the patterned conductive layer. Many transducers may be connected to form an array, where a controller may be provided for controlling the array, such as steering a beam of the array, and processing signals received by the array, for presence or motion detection and/or imaging, for example.

Thin film detector for presence detection

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Engel Johannes Knibbe