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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 22, 2015
Filed:
Jul. 07, 2014
Cooper Technologies Company, Houston, TX (US);
Maoz Ohad, West Hartford, CT (US);
Andrei Weintraub, Holon, IL;
Cooper Technologies Company, Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
Control and monitoring of airfield lighting from a control tower and other maintenance/supervisory locations uses double loop self healing fiber optic communications circuits to enhances speed of operation even with large and complex airfield lighting system requirements, and significantly increased reliability and operating lifetime thereof. A plurality of local light control and monitoring groups are used, wherein each group has at least one fiber optic communications concentrator that independently communicates with light controllers within the group and the remote supervisory control and monitoring systems in the control tower and other locations. This allows faster control response of the lamps in each of the airfield light fixtures, and monitoring concentration of operational data within each group. Each of the at least one fiber optic concentrators is optically coupled to double loop self healing fiber optic communications backbone circuits coupled to main and backup computer supervisory control systems for redundancy purposes.