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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 23, 2024
Filed:
Oct. 20, 2020
Signify Holding B.v., Eindhoven, NL;
Bernd Ackermann, Aachen, DE;
Matthias Wendt, Wurselen, DE;
SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Abstract
A control module (-) for controlling a plurality of power switching elements (-) arranged for controlling provision of power to one or more wireless network devices (-); wherein the control module (-) comprises a processor () arranged for: determining which one of the plurality of power switching elements (-) the control module (-) receives power through; determining a set of the plurality of wireless network devices (-) which receives power via a first power switching element out of the plurality of power switching elements (-); determining that the set includes all the wireless network devices which receive power via the first power switching element; determining operational state of each of the wireless network devices in the set; determining whether the control module (-) receives power via the first power switching element; evaluating a first set of conditions; wherein the first set of conditions comprises that the control module (-) does not receive power via the first power switching element and the determined operational state indicates that each of the wireless network devices in the set does not require power, controlling, based on a positive result of the evaluation of the first set of conditions, the first power switching element to cease power provision to the set of wireless network devices.