Patent ID: 8339247

Claim:
A lighting unit comprising: a data tag reader linked to a command converter and a lighting control interface, the lighting control interface connected to a set of LEDs, the command converter wirelessly linked to a computer system, the computer system linked to a remote database residing via an internet connection; a first database residing in the command converter and storing information about the set of LEDs; a second database residing in the command converter and storing information for mapping data contents of data tags to lighting settings; and the data tag reader configured to detect data contained in a data tag and transmit the data to the command converter, the command converter searching the first and second databases upon receipt of the data and generating a lighting setting signal to the lighting control interface for controlling the set of LEDS in accordance with the information in the first database and the mapped settings in the second database, wherein the computer system provides updated data from the remote database to the second database, wherein the data tag is a radio-frequency identification(RFID) tag and the data tag reader is a RFID reader.