EVALUATING CONDITION OF COMPONENTS USING ACOUSTIC SENSOR IN LIGHTING DEVICE

• Main Authors: DAVID TERRY TRAYHAN JR, ZHANG HUA
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; Japanese
• Published: 18.01.2018
• Subjects: CONTROL OR REGULATING SYSTEMS IN GENERAL; CONTROLLING; ELECTRIC HEATING; ELECTRIC LIGHTING NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; ELECTRIC TECHNIQUES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; ELECTRICITY; FUNCTIONAL ELEMENTS OF SUCH SYSTEMS; INVESTIGATING OR ANALYSING MATERIALS BY DETERMINING THEIRCHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; MEASURING; MONITORING OR TESTING ARRANGEMENTS FOR SUCH SYSTEMS ORELEMENTS; PHYSICS; REGULATING; TESTING

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To evaluate a condition of a component using an acoustic sensor embedded within a lighting device.SOLUTION: An embodiment can include a first lighting device (162) configured to illuminate an area of an industrial plant (152); a first acoustic sensor (164) embedded within the first lighting device and configured to detect an acoustic signature (166) of a component in the industrial plant; a computing device (200) communicatively connected to the first acoustic sensor and configured to evaluate a condition of the component (102, 104, 110, 126, 128) in the industrial plant on the basis of the acoustic signature.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 2 【課題】照明装置に組み込まれた音響センサを用いて構成要素の状態を評価する。【解決手段】産業プラント（１５２）の領域を照明するように構成された第１の照明装置（１６２）と、第１の照明装置内に組み込まれた第１の音響センサ（１６４）であって、産業プラント内の構成要素の音響シグネチャ（１６６）を検出するように構成された第１の音響センサと、第１の音響センサに通信可能に接続されるコンピューティング装置（２００）であって、音響シグネチャに基づいて産業プラント内の構成要素（１０２、１０４、１１０、１２６、１２８）の状態を評価するように構成されたコンピューティング装置とを含み得る。【選択図】図２