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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Feb. 19, 2019

Filed:

Oct. 21, 2015
Applicant:

Aalto University Foundation, Aalto, FI;

Inventor:

Seppo Sierla, Helsinki, FI;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H05B 37/02 (2006.01); G06K 9/00 (2006.01); H05B 33/08 (2006.01); H05B 37/03 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H05B 37/0245 (2013.01); G06K 9/00785 (2013.01); H05B 33/0845 (2013.01); H05B 37/0227 (2013.01); H05B 37/0272 (2013.01); H05B 37/034 (2013.01); Y02B 20/72 (2013.01);
Abstract

A controlling of a lighting network based on traffic monitoring comprises steps of determining plurality of coverage areas of set of luminaires, where each luminaire comprises at least one light source. Information related to a presence of users in said coverage areas is received. This may relate both outdoor or indoor areas and activity. A status of at least certain luminaire is then changed to a reserve status, when a last detected user exits the coverage area. Each coverage area or luminaire is providing with an expected value for the time of when the next user is expected to arrive in the coverage area of said luminaire, A set of luminaires [R] of said luminaires with the reserve status to be controlled, such as dimmed, is then defined and information related to demand response requests [D, . . . , D] of an electric power grid is received. In addition controlling, such as dimming, at least one of said defined set of luminaires in said reserve is performed in order to fulfill said demand response requests at least partially.


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