Patent ID: 9445485
Filing Date: 2016-09-13
CPC Classification: H05B,Y02B

Claim Text:
1. A method of operation for a processor-based device to control a plurality of remotely located area lighting luminaires, each of the area lighting luminaires including a locally installed illumination control system, the method comprising: receiving, by at least one central control processor, illumination control system fault data that identifies one or more of the locally installed illumination control systems associated with one or more respective luminaires as a faulty illumination control system; receiving, by the at least one central control processor, illumination data relating to at least one of ambient illumination or time of day; generating, at the at least one central control processor, an illumination command based at least in part on the received illumination data; and distributing the illumination command to the one or more luminaires identified as having a faulty illumination control system through a data communications network.