Patent ID: 7548150

Claim:
A method for the allocation of short addresses in illumination systems, whose illumination components (DALI EB, Lp) are controlled via a DALI bus, said method comprising the steps of: providing a localization device (Tag, 4 ), which is suitable for notifying a device for short-address allocation ( 3 ) of the location of an activated illumination component (DALI EB, Lp), storing an allocation list in the device for short-address allocation ( 3 ), which links each location with a short address, allocating random long addresses in the illumination components (DALI EB, Lp), activating an illumination component (DALI EB, Lp) via its long address by the device for short-address allocation ( 3 ), outputting a signal by the illumination component (DALI EB, Lp) activated via its long address, triggered by the signal, notifying by the localization device (Tag, 4 ) the device for short-address allocation ( 3 ) of the location of the activated illumination component (DALI EB, Lp), and depending on the notified location, allocating by the device for short-address allocation ( 3 ) a short address to the activated illumination component (DALI EB, Lp) using the allocation list.