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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 22, 2020
Filed:
May. 14, 2019
The Watt Stopper, Inc., Carlsbad, CA (US);
Richard R. Billig, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Alexandre Debernard, Oceanside, CA (US);
Bertrand Debever, Carlsbad, CA (US);
The Watt Stopper, Inc., Carlsbad, CA (US);
Abstract
Location-Based Addressing (LBA) is a method of controlling and commissioning networked lighting devices. The lighting devices communicate over a wireless network using radio frequency communication protocols. The lighting devices are commissioned or grouped based on their 5 respective locations in a building floor plan or a building architecture. The lighting devices are commissioned to respond to radio frequency communications that correspond to their respective locations. This imposed location-based architecture reduces the amount of transmitted data required to control the lighting devices and, thus, reduces the radio bandwidth required to control the lighting devices. In other words, controlling devices 'multicast' instructions and controlled devices 'listen' for instructions and act only upon instructions that correspond to their respective location. Hand shaking or two-way communication between the controlling devices and the controlled devices is not required.