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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 13, 2016
Filed:
Dec. 09, 2011
Oscar Garcia Morchon, Aachen, DE;
Theodorus Jacobus Johannes Denteneer, Eindhoven, NL;
Oscar Garcia Morchon, Aachen, DE;
Theodorus Jacobus Johannes Denteneer, Eindhoven, NL;
PHILIPS LIGHTING HOLDING B.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Abstract
The invention relates to the control of networked lighting systems, particularly large scale networked lighting systems, and more specifically to an efficient transmission of messages to control luminaries of a networked lighting system. A basic idea of the invention is to provide an efficient and flexible multicast, particularly group cast message that addresses several or a group of luminaires, and that can control the addressed luminaries in an efficient way by compressing the distributed light settings using a function in order to reduce the communicational overhead. An embodiment of the invention relates to a method for controlling a networked lighting system comprising the steps of—selecting several controllable luminaries of the networked lighting system (S), —combining control information for each one of the selected luminaries to a set of information control information (S), —selecting at least one predetermined function for compressing the set of control information by associating an input related to a selected controllable luminary to the control information for the selected controllable luminary from the set of control information (S), —creating a multicast message addressed to the selected luminaries and comprising information regarding the selected predetermined function (S), and—transmitting the created multicast message (S).