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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 16, 2019
Filed:
Jan. 10, 2018
Abl Ip Holding Llc, Conyers, GA (US);
Sean P. White, Reston, VA (US);
Jenish S. Kastee, South Riding, VA (US);
Daniel M. Megginson, Fairfax, VA (US);
Nathanial W. Hixon, Arlington, VA (US);
Niels G. Eegholm, Columbia, MD (US);
ABL IP HOLDING LLC, Conyers, GA (US);
Abstract
System and method examples offer ways to count occupants in an area by sound. A system includes a data network, a light fixture having intelligent driver circuitry coupled to a light source, a lighting control device to control a light output and operations of the light source in an area, and a microphone coupled to the lighting control device. The lighting control device includes programming that configures a processor to control the microphone to sample and detect sound in the area, determine a location of the detected sound relative to a position of the microphone coupled to the lighting control device, and increment an occupant counter to correspond to each newly determined location of sound in the area for a predetermined period of time.