Patent ID: 8049592
Filing Date: 2011-11-01
Classification: H05B,Y02B

Abstract:
1. A network-based lighting equipment remote monitoring and management system for use to integrate to a network system for providing a user-operated monitoring and management function on at least one set of remotely-located lighting equipment system; the network-based lighting equipment remote monitoring and management system being based on a distributed architecture comprising a server-side unit and an equipment-side unit; wherein the server-side unit is integrated to a server linked to the network system and is capable of allowing a client workstation to be linked via the network system to the server for user-operated monitoring and management tasks on the lighting equipment system, and which includes: a remote network communication module, which is used to allow the server-side unit to communicate with the equipment-side unit via the network system; a user interface module, which is capable of providing a user interface to the client workstation being linked to the server, and capable of providing a lighting-equipment operating-status displaying function and a human-operated control command issuing function; wherein the lighting-equipment operating-status displaying function is capable of displaying a set of operating status data about the lighting equipment system, while the human-operated control command issuing function is capable of providing a set of lighting control commands for user selection and issuing each user-selected lighting control command via the network system to the lighting equipment system; and an operation data storage module, which is used for storage of a set of operation data about the lighting equipment system downloaded from the equipment-side unit and capable of displaying the operation data on the client workstation through the user interface module; and wherein: