Commissioning smart lighting systems

Abstract

The commissioning of a smart building technology system is implemented with the use of a binding table in a relational database to bind one or more sections of virtual devices representing, e.g., lights, sensors, actuators and room controls, to the network addresses of physical devices. Plans for redundant sections in large building are created in terms of virtual devices and logical functions (such as programmed groups of devices, scenes and recipes) without direct binding to physical devices. Software creates reference copies of the plan for redundant sections the building, through use of a binding table, and attaches the reference copy to the location of the respective section on a master layout of the building. The plan modeled with virtual devices can be edited or reprogrammed across all reference copies, even after binding to physical devices and commissioning is completed.