Patent ID: 8892220

Claim:
A wireless lighting system, comprising: one or more wearable light units, each of the light units comprising a control box and a plurality of lighting elements removably incorporated into a garment, each of the lighting elements separately coupled to the wearable control box and grouped into a plurality of channels via a removable connector, the control box comprising a communications module for receiving from a central control unit and transmitting to the central control unit wireless signals over an internet protocol layer and means for testing the light units and generating status information; the central control unit programmed to obtain a set of lighting inputs, convert the set of lighting inputs into a set of commands, and to wirelessly communicate over the internet protocol layer the set of commands to the control box of one or more of the light units in order to control the plurality of lighting elements according to the set of lighting inputs, to wireless communicate diagnostic commands over the internet protocol layer to the control box on one or more of the light units, and to wirelessly receive the status information from the control box over the internet protocol layer.