Koninklijke Philips Corporation N.v.

Signify Holding B.v.

Philips Lighting Holding B.v.

Maulin Dahyabhai Patel

Richard Chen

Saeed Reza Bagheri

Rohit Kumar

Carlos Cordeiro

Jia Hu

Mathan Kumar Gopal Samy

Dzmitry Viktorovich Aliakseyeu

Monisha Ghosh

Harry Broers

Jianfeng Wang

Dong Wang

Ruben Rajagopalan

Hongqiang Zhai

Philip Andrew Rudland

Alexandre Georgievich Sinitsyn

Sirisha Rangavajhala

Philip Anthony Jamieson

Yao-Jung Wen

Leszek Holenderski

Delroy Smith

Weiran Nie

Parikshit Shah

Vikrant Suhas Vaze

Yi Chen

A system and method for maintaining a system configuration to provide desired system performance is disclosed. The system comprises a processing unit receiving sensor data associated with environmental conditions within an area, generating a map of the area based on the received sensor data, determining a change in the map of the area and determining at least one system commissioning parameter associated with the determined change in the map to compensate for or correct the change in the map. In one aspect of the invention, the sensor data is provided through a plurality of mobile devices.

System and method for maintaining building automation system performance

Lighting systems and methods for lighting fixture location mapping, for example, using a combination of photosensing readings and/or other sensors to identify a correct mapping. These systems and methods may be used to resolve ambiguities that could not be resolved using other processes, such an auto-commissioning method that identifies more than one possible mapping of the lighting fixtures to spatial locations. Such ambiguities are typically found in floor plans that are symmetrical. The systems and methods of the present invention record and utilize environmental profiles, such as ambient lighting levels and occupancy patterns, to match lighting fixtures to their respective spatial locations and provide resolution to ambiguities in an auto-commissioning method that identifies more than one possible mapping of the lighting fixtures to spatial locations.

Systems and methods for lighting fixture location mapping

Lighting systems and methods for lighting fixture location mapping, for example, using a combination of photo sensing and/or other type of signaling, such as radiofrequency (RF) signaling is provided. The lighting systems may map a plurality of lighting fixtures to a plurality of spatial locations in a floor plan using the signal generating capabilities and sensors that are located within each of the lighting fixtures. The commissioning of the lighting fixtures may be automatically determined using a control system without significant manual intervention. In particular, the lighting fixtures may be mapped to their respective spatial locations by applying a heuristic analysis of strength of signals emitted and received between light fixtures and distances as provided in a building plan between spatial locations to which the light fixtures may be correlated.

Systems and methods for automatic lighting fixture location mapping

A fault detection system () for detecting faulty devices among a first plurality of serviceable devices () is provided. The serviceable devices have a wireless transmitter () arranged to periodically transmit a wireless signal () that encodes a device identifier. Mobile devices have a receiver () arranged to receive the wireless signal of a serviceable device within the transmission range, and to obtain the device identifier from the wireless signal. A fault detector () is arranged to detect faulty devices by selecting device identifiers in the plurality of device identifiers for which no device identifier was received in a time period.

Fault detection system

A method directed to overhearing problems of Body Area Network (BAN) medium access control protocols. The method comprises generating a preamble frame (S); encoding a destination address of a target receiver device as a length of the preamble frame (S); and transmitting the preamble frame (S).

Techniques for solving overhearing problems of body area network medium access control protocols

A system for managing workspace configurations disclosed. The system comprises a plurality of sensors, at least one of the sensors being associated with a corresponding workspace, determining changes in a current configuration of the work space with regard to a previous configuration of the space, wherein the current configuration is determined based on signals received from selected ones of the sensors and providing an indication when the a change in the configuration has been determined.

Method and system for managing space configurations

System and methods for data logging are disclosed. The method comprising performing an initialization process, performing a data collection process in which data from a plurality of sensors is collected and time stamped, performing a time correction on the time-stamp data based on patterns of time and occupancy, performing an estimation of a light state based on the corrected time stamped data and determining an energy saving using an automatic light operation based on determined light state estimation.

Data logging device

A wireless medical device () includes at least one sensor () which monitors physiological data of a patient or an actuator () which delivers therapy to the patient. A wireless transceiver () transmits and receives information packets related to at least one of the monitored physiological data and the delivered therapy. The wireless transceiver () has a duty-cycle limit. The duty-cycle module () determines the duty-cycle parameters for the wireless transceiver () according to the duty-cycle limit. A communication module () controls the transceiver () to broadcast at least one duty-cycle parameter when transmitting an information packet or when acknowledging receiving an information packet from a neighboring wireless medical device.

System and method for exchanging duty-cycle information in wireless networks

System and methods for appointing energy and environmental costs to provide separate billing statements for operation of business and/or healthcare related equipment is disclosed. The method determining a cost associated with a total amount of energy consumed and a cost for operation of selected equipment with regard to usage and demand. In addition, the greenhouse gas emissions associated with the generation of the energy required to generate the total amount of energy and operate the selected equipment is also determined.

System and method for determining energy and greenhouse gas (GHG) apportionment

An apparatus, a system and a method for improving the determination of occupancy in an area is disclosed. The apparatus represents a motion sensor that provides improved granularity of the determination of motion within a first time period, wherein samples are collected during the first time period and then integrated over the first time period to determine a level of motion. The determined level of motion during the first time period are stored and transmitted at the end of a second time period. In one aspect of the invention, the occupancy is determined based on the collected level of motion inpreceding first time periods. In another aspect of the invention, the collected information is transmitted over a network, where the transmitted data may be further collected and processed.

System and method for improving occupancy determination

A method and corresponding system is disclosed that provides for management of a response to motion detection in a motion-based system. The method includes: determining a schedule of movement of a position and an orientation of a window treatment, wherein a scheduled time of movement of the window treatment is greater than a time-out period of an occupancy sensor and determining at least one of the position of the window treatment and the orientation of the window treatment at a corresponding time of movement wherein the movement is based at least on one of a current time and a next time, and responsive to a detection of motion, outputting the determined at least one position and orientation at the current time.

Method for preventing false positive occupancy sensor detections caused by motion

This invention discloses a method and apparatus for managing energy shedding by utilizing built-in energy storage capacity of electronic devices to realize load shedding by selecting disconnecting the devices from the electrical grid and operating on battery power and detecting appropriate periods to reconnect the devices to the grid to replenish the expended energy in the energy storage capacity.

System and method for energy shedding

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

This invention discloses a method and system for managing artificial lighting sources to provide acceptable quality of lighting while reducing cost of operation of the artificial lighting sources. In one aspect of the invention, at least one color characteristic of the artificial light source is adjusted based on an illuminance of a natural light source and the at least one color characteristic of the artificial light source.

System and method for managing lighting systems

An illumination controller is provided. The illumination controller comprises a light sensor device having a first light sensor arrangement configured to sense light within a first spectral range including non-visible light and excluding a sub-range constituted by at least a major part of the visible light, and a second light sensor arrangement configured to sense light within a second spectral range including at least a part of said sub-range. Furthermore, the illumination controller comprises a control unit connected with the light sensor device and arranged to determine an amount of daylight on the basis of an output signal of the first light sensor arrangement and a predetermined function, which characterizes the relationship between the spectral power distribution of the infrared spectrum of daylight and the spectral power distribution of the visible spectrum of daylight, and to determine an amount of artificial light on the basis of an output signal of the second light sensor arrangement and the output signal of the first light sensor arrangement. The illumination controller is arranged to control illumination on the basis of said amounts of daylight and artificial light.

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