Patent ID: 9572228
Date: 2017-02-14
CPC Classifications: H05B,Y02B

Claim:
1. A method of commissioning a lighting system that includes a central control unit, a plurality of light sources that are remote from the central control unit and a plurality of sensors, each of the sensors being associated with one or more of the light sources, the method comprising: entering a command that sets the central control unit into a commissioning mode with a first light source group of a plurality of light source groups selected; transmitting light from a pointing device to a first sensor that is associated with a first of the light sources to select the first of the light sources for inclusion in the first light source group; transmitting light from the pointing device to a second sensor that is associated with a second of the light sources to select the second of the light sources for inclusion in the first light source group; selecting a second light source group; transmitting light from a pointing device to a third sensor that is associated with a third of the light sources to select the third of the light sources for inclusion in the second light source group; wherein the central control unit is configured to associate the first and second light sources with the first light source group based on receiving, over first and second pre-established hard-wired communication links, respective first and second signals from the first and second sensors indicating that the transmitted light from the pointing device was received at the first and second sensors while the central control unit was set in the commissioning mode with the first light source group selected, and the central control unit is further configured to associate the third light source with the second light source group based on receiving, over a third pre-established hard-wired communication link, a third signal from the third sensor indicating that the transmitted light from the pointing device was received at the third sensor while the central control unit was set in the commissioning mode with the second light source group selected.