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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 13, 2021
Filed:
Jan. 25, 2019
Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Hiroshi Sugawara, Hyogo, JP;
Yuto Hidaka, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A pairing method for determining communication partners among luminaires and wireless interface (IF) devices, including: generating provisional pairing data by assigning provisional addresses to the luminaires and the wireless IF devices indicated on the layout map and by associating the provisional addresses assigned to the wireless IF devices with the provisional addresses assigned to the luminaires in a one-to-many relationship; in a hardware installation phase in which the luminaires and the wireless IF devices are installed in accordance with the layout map, generating final pairing data by associating the provisional addresses in the provisional pairing data with pre-assigned actual addresses; and notifying the luminaires and the wireless IF devices of each of the actual addresses each is associated with in the final pairing data, and causing the luminaires and the wireless IF devices to store, as an actual address of a communication partner, each of the notified actual addresses.