Patent ID: 9742474
Date: 2017-08-22
CPC Classifications: H04B,H04W,H05B

Claim:
1. A lighting unit comprising: a microcontroller; and a near field communication, NFC-enabled embedded device comprising shared NFC memory configured to be written to and read from by both an external NFC reader/writer using near field communication and the microcontroller and configured to enable an operation of the lighting unit to be both monitored and controlled using NFC; wherein the microcontroller comprises or is coupled to a metering circuit configured to measure a power usage for the lighting unit and store the measured power usage in the shared NFC memory; and wherein the stored power usage for the lighting unit is accessible by the external NFC reader/writer for use in at least one of: a billing system, a lighting unit testing or lighting unit component testing operation, in a calibration of a metering function.