Koninklijke Philips Corporation N.V.

Signify Holding B.v.

Philips Lighting Holding B.v.

Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.v.

Hongqiang Zhai

Kiran Srinivas Challapali

Jianfeng Wang

Dave Alberto Tavares Cavalcanti

Dong Wang

Qing Li

Fulong Ma

Yi Qiang Yu

Michael Alex Van Hartskamp

Hongxin Chen

Marcin Gramza

Marek Zbigniew Szczerba

Zhong Huang

Daniel Jozef Piotrowski

Marcin Krzysztof Szczodrak

Qin Zhao

Xianneng Peng

Martin Elixmann

Liang Jia

Richard Chen

Chun-Ting Chou

Monisha Ghosh

Maulin Dahyabhai Patel

Tommaso Gritti

Delroy Smith

The invention provides a light management information system for an outdoor lighting network system, having a plurality of outdoor light units each including at least one sensor type, where each of the light units communicates with at least one other light unit, at least one user input/output device in communication with at one or more of said outdoor light units, a central management system in communication with light units, said central management system sends control commands and/or information 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 or received user information requests from said user input/output device, a resource server in communication with said central management system, wherein the central management system uses the light unit status/sensor information and resources from the resource server to provide information to the user input/output device and/or reconfigure one or more of the lights units.

Methods and apparatus for information management and control of outdoor lighting networks

A system for guiding a driver of a vehicle is disclosed. The system comprises a light sensor configured to detect light; and a processor configured to determine a position of vehicle on a roadway based on a characteristic of the detected light.

Vehicle positioning and guidance system

A system and methods to provide imaging service using outdoor lighting networks. The system uses outdoor lighting networks to manage/control video/image sensors connected to the network, e.g. hosted at lighting units, and coordinates the capture of useful video/image data associated with events. The system also provides an information search platform for users to retrieve only the relevant video/image data associated with events of interest. Furthermore, the system controls when and how to retrieve video/image data at lighting units across the whole network according to user requests, the priority of the events, and available bandwidth.

Imaging service using outdoor lighting networks

A medical system includes one or more MBAN devices that acquire and communicate patient data. The medical system further including one or more medical body area network (MBAN) systems, each MBAN system including the one or more MBAN devices that communicate the patient data with a hub device via short-range wireless communication, the communication of the patient data via the short-range wireless communication being within a predefined spectrum. The hub device receives patient data communicated from the one or more MBAN devices and communicates with a central monitoring station via a longer range communication. The one or more MBAN devices transmit an association request to the hub device on one or more auxiliary channels to associate each MBAN device with the MBAN system, the auxiliary channels being outside the predefined spectrum.

Method to use auxiliary channel to achieve fast and power-efficient association in wireless networks

A method to control a lighting network having a plurality of light units, the method may be controlled by a lighting operator which may obtain information related to service availability for each of the light units; map the information related to service availability for each of the light units to form a service availability information map comprising attribute information of each of the light units; determine one or more of service policies, service schedules, and operational parameters for each of the plurality of light units for a service time period; and/or provide cellular communication service to one or more cellular stations in a service area of the light units in accordance with one or more of the determined service policies, service schedules, and operational parameters for the service time period.

Enhanced lighting network to serve mobile cellular users and method of operation thereof

A method () for performing link adaptation of wireless links in a wireless network. The method comprises generating a first enhanced link adaptation (ELA) information element () by the transmitter (S); sending the first ELA information element to at least one receiver (S); upon reception of a second ELA information element at the transmitter, determining optimal transmission parameters for the transmitter, wherein the second ELA information element is generated and sent by the at least one receiver in response to the first ELA information element (S).

Techniques for performing efficient link adaptation in wireless personal networks

A lighting system () including at least one controller () and a memory () containing program portions which configure the controller () to obtain weather forecast information including one or more of current and expected weather conditions over a period of time; determine one or more lighting settings based upon the weather forecast information; form lighting setting information in accordance with the determined lighting settings; and transmit the lighting setting information. The system () may include an illumination source () to provide illumination in accordance with the lighting setting information The system may change characteristics (e.g., illumination pattern, illumination intensity, illumination spectrum, illumination polarization,) of the illuminated source (). The process may form lighting setting information to control one or more filters () in accordance with a desired lighting setting.

Adaptive controlled outdoor lighting system and method of operation thereof

A policy-based OLN (outdoor lighting network) light management system including a central control apparatus (); lighting unit control apparatus (); a communication system () operably connecting the central control apparatus () and the lighting unit control apparatus (); and a repository () in communication with the central control apparatus (), the repository () being operable to store an OLN policy. The central control apparatus () is operable to: receive a policy; check the policy for consistency against the OLN policy; determine attributes and configuration commands for each of the lighting unit control apparatus () in accordance with the policy when the policy is consistent with the OLN policy; and communicate the attributes and the configuration commands for each of the lighting unit control apparatus () to a corresponding one of the lighting unit control apparatus ().

Policy-based OLN light management system

Light management system for an outdoor lighting network (OLN) having lighting units, the system including a central control apparatus (); lighting unit control apparatus (); and a communication system (). The central control apparatus () is operable to receive a configuration request; receive optimization objectives/constraints; identify the lighting units operably connected to the plurality of lighting unit control apparatus () associated with the configuration request; determine whether at least one of lighting requirements, illuminance model, and cost model have changed; update the lighting requirements, the illuminance and the cost model when at least one of the lighting requirements, the illuminance model, and the cost model have changed; optimize operation of the identified lighting units as a function of the optimization objectives/constraints, the lighting requirements, the illuminance and the cost model; and send an operation instruction to the lighting control apparatus ().

Outdoor lighting network light change/optimization system

A medical system includes one or more medical body area network (MBAN) systems. Each MBAN system including one or more MBAN devices which acquire and communicate patient data via a hub device via a short-range wireless communication channel. The communication of the patient data via the short-range wireless communication channel within a predefined spectra. One of the spectra being a spectrum belonging to a third party primary user. The hub device receives patient data communicated from the one or more MBAN devices and communicates with a central monitoring station via a longer range communication. In response to the third party primary user requesting the third party primary user spectrum, the hub device reallocates to other spectra based on a priority of an acuity level of services communicated by each hub device.

Spectrum reallocation with prioritized schedule

A method () for enabling compatibility of wireless devices having different regulation settings. The method includes upon initialization of a wireless device, scanning a predefined common channel (S); forming a WiNet service set (WSS) by wireless devices communicating over the predefined common channel (S); upon switching of the wireless devices in the WSS to a channel other than the predefined common channel, checking if a new wireless device attempts to join the WSS (S, S); and adding the new wireless device to the WSS if such attempt was detected (S).

Techniques for enabling compatibility of ultra wideband devices

A method () for creating a group shared distributed reservation in a wireless network. The method comprises collecting information about the distributed reservation availabilities of devices in the wireless network (S); selecting a group of shared devices to be included in the group shared distributed reservation based on the collected information (S); sending a reservation request to each device in the group of shared devices (S); and updating the group of shared devices to include only devices that accept the reservation request (S), thereby creating a group shared distributed reservation of medium access time slots.

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