Patent ID: 6957043

Claim:
A data communications system comprising a local beacon, communicating with controlling and/or information communicating infrastructure means and/or with at least one further local beacon and which contains, for wireless communication with at least one end device located in vicinity of the local beacon, one of a transceiver combination or, in special cases, a transmitter only, said local beacon being located in, on or in place of an electric lighting equipment, wherein said local beacon comprises a smart module relating to data to be transmitted wirelessly, which includes a memory and a processing unit, the memory being capable of caching information so that said information can then be repeatedly sent to users equipped with a suitable end device without having to be fetched every time from said infrastructure means, and said processing unit being capable of outsourcing certain processing actions, otherwise implemented in a central processing unit of said infrastructure means or in said end device itself, to the local beacon, and wherein the smart module of said local beacon makes a decision as to which data and how long said data are to be cached.