Patent ID: 11917740
Assignee: HUNTER INDUSTRIES, INC.
Field: Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  Y | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A controller configured to power and control a plurality of lighting modules, each lighting module including one or more lights and being serially addressable over a two-wire communication network, the controller comprising:
one or more processors configured to output command and address data to control a behavior of at least one light;
a rectifier circuit communicating with a power signal and configured to form a rectified power waveform;
a bridge circuit communicating with the rectifier circuit and the one or more processors and configured to receive the rectified power waveform and the command and address data, and to output to the two-wire communication network a data encoded power signal to power and control one or more lighting modules;
current sensing circuitry operably coupled to the one or more processors and configured to monitor the power signal; and
memory operably coupled to the processor and configured to store lighting module information and code executable by the one or more processors, the executable code causing the one or more processors to:
output first command and address data comprising an address of a first lighting module and a command to turn ON the addressed lighting module, the bridge circuit receiving the first command and address data and outputting a first data encoded power signal responsive to the first command and address data;
receive, after the first data encoded power signal is sent over the two-wire communication network, an indication of current associated with the monitored power signal from the current sensing circuitry;
compare the received indication of the current with a threshold value; and
determine, based on the comparison, whether the first lighting module responded to the command.