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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 18, 2017
Filed:
Dec. 08, 2014
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Matthew A. Laherty, Bloomington, IN (US);
Donald Schriner, Fishers, IN (US);
Charles Calvin Byers, Wheaton, IL (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Techniques presented herein are directed to synchronizing the execution time of lighting operations within a networked lighting system. In one example, a network device that is connected to at least one networked light fixture accepts one or more timing reference messages representing a network time base. The network device generates one or more lighting control messages that identify at least one light control setting for the networked light fixture connected to the network device. Based on the one or more timing reference messages, the network device encodes a time for execution of the light control setting within the lighting control messages, thereby generating one or more time encoded lighting control messages. The network device sends the time encoded lighting control messages to the networked light fixture for execution of the light control settings at the time of execution specified in the time encoded lighting control message.