Patent ID: 8442403

Claim:
A lighting and control system having a plurality of lighting nodes, and a controller, the system comprising: the plurality of lighting nodes, wherein each lighting nodes includes: a lamp configured for providing an illumination, wherein the illumination is user-controlled to provide a configurable lighting experience, wherein the lamp comprises one or more light emitting diodes; the lamp further configured for optical communication of a spectral content of the illumination with the controller; a node radio device configured for radio communication with the controller, and a node memory configured to store a node identifier; and the controller including: an optical sensor configured to sense the spectral content of the illumination of at least one lighting node, a controller radio device configured for radio communication with the plurality of lighting nodes, and a controller memory configured to store at least some of the node identifiers of the plurality of lighting nodes and one or more color profiles to be targeted by the illumination provided by at least some of the plurality of lamps, wherein the controller is physically separate from each of the plurality of lighting nodes, and further wherein the controller is used to remotely control the illumination of at least one of the plurality of lighting nodes via the controller radio device based upon the sensed characteristics of the illumination of the at least one of the plurality of lighting nodes, wherein the controller radio device sends a command to the at least one of the plurality of lighting nodes by using the node identifier associated with the lighting node.