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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 31, 2020
Filed:
Jul. 27, 2015
Signify Holding B.v., Eindhoven, NL;
Rohit Kumar, Hackensack, NJ (US);
Maulin Dahyabhai Patel, Tuckahoe, NY (US);
SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Abstract
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.