Methods and apparatus for information management and control of outdoor lighting networks

• Main Authors: Jia, Liang, Szczerba, Marek Zbigniew, Huang, Zhong, Chen, Hongxin, Cavalcanti, Dave Alberto Tavares, Wang, Jianfeng, Li, Qing, Gramza, Marcin, Piotrowski, Daniel J, Yu, Yi Qiang, Challapali, Kiran Srinivas, Elixmann, Martin, Szczodrak, Marcin Krzysztof, Zhao, Qin, Zhai, Hongqiang, Ma, Fulong, Van Hartskamp, Michael Alex, Peng, Xianneng
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 21.03.2023
• Subjects: BLASTING; ELECTRIC HEATING; ELECTRIC LIGHTING NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; ELECTRIC TECHNIQUES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; ELECTRICITY; HEATING; INDEXING SCHEME ASSOCIATED WITH SUBCLASSES F21K, F21L, F21Sand F21V, RELATING TO THEFORM OR THE KIND OF THE LIGHT SOURCES OR OF THE COLOUR OF THELIGHT EMITTED; INDEXING SCHEME ASSOCIATED WITH SUBCLASSES F21K, F21L, F21Sand F21V, RELATING TO USESOR APPLICATIONS OF LIGHTING DEVICES OR SYSTEMS; LIGHTING; MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; NON-PORTABLE LIGHTING DEVICES; SYSTEMS THEREOF; VEHICLE LIGHTING DEVICES SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR VEHICLEEXTERIORS; WEAPONS

The invention provides a light management information system for an outdoor lighting network system, having a plurality of outdoor light units each including at least one sensor type, where each of the light units communicates with at least one other light unit, at least one user input/output device in communication with at one or more of said outdoor light units, a central management system in communication with light units, said central management system sends control commands and/or information to one or more of said outdoor light units, in response to received outdoor light unit status/sensor information from one or more of said outdoor light units or received user information requests from said user input/output device, a resource server in communication with said central management system, wherein the central management system uses the light unit status/sensor information and resources from the resource server to provide information to the user input/output device and/or reconfigure one or more of the lights units.