Patent ID: 8093817
Filing Date: 2012-01-10
Classification: H05B

Abstract:
1. A method for controlling a lighting system, which comprises at least one lighting arrangement, a user control device and a main control device, the method comprising: providing the lighting arrangement with an identification code; at the lighting arrangement: modulating light emitted by the lighting arrangement by lighting arrangement data, which contains the identification code of the lighting arrangement; at the user controlled device: receiving light from the lighting arrangement; deriving received lighting arrangement data from the light received from the lighting arrangement; generating additional data, which is associated with an identification code contained in the received lighting arrangement data; transmitting the received lighting arrangement data and the additional data; at the main control device: receiving the data from the user controlled device; controlling the operation of the lighting arrangement dependent on the received data; wherein, at the user controlled device, the received light is measured to provide a value of at least one property of the light, apart from representing data, to provide at least part of the additional data dependent on which the main control device controls the lighting arrangement.