Patent ID: 9591726
Date: 2017-03-07
CPC Classifications: F21K,F21V,H04L,H04W,H05B

Claim:
1. A digital communications gateway comprising: a digital communications interface configured to be coupled to a network operating in accordance with an internet protocol; a lighting control network interface configured to be coupled to a lighting control network, wherein the lighting control network is configured to be coupled to an LED based illumination device operable to receive and transmit information on the lighting control network; a memory configured to store an amount of information received from the LED based illumination device; and a processor configured to determine a summary status value associated with the LED based illumination device based at least in part on the amount of information stored in the memory of the digital communications gateway, wherein a plurality LED based illumination device are coupled to the lighting control network and wherein the lighting control network interface is configured to transmit information to each of the plurality of LED based illumination devices and to receive amounts of information from each of the plurality of LED based illumination devices, and wherein the memory is configured to store the amounts of information received by the lighting control network interface from each of the plurality of LED based illumination devices and the processor is configured to determine summary status values associated with each of the plurality of LED based illumination devices based at least in part on the amounts of information stored in the memory of the digital communications gateway.