JP7270472B2 - Outdoor lighting system and lighting management server - Google Patents

Description

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a system for controlling lighting fixtures installed outdoors, such as in a garden, using a mobile terminal, and a lighting management server used in the system.

In the field of electric equipment such as air conditioners and lighting fixtures, technology that controls operations using portable mobile terminals (smartphones and tablet PCs) is being adopted in order to provide users with a comfortable environment. It's becoming

As part of the above technology, the applicant of the present application has previously proposed a system that ensures safety and produces a comfortable and relaxing space by viewing images taken by a camera installed in a garden or the like on the user's mobile terminal. (See Non-Patent Document 1).

In the above-described system, it is necessary to illuminate the shooting location in order to view the video captured by the camera at night. At that time, if it is possible to instruct the turning on and off of lighting fixtures using a mobile terminal in the same way as a camera, the user's convenience will be enhanced.

A technique for controlling the lighting/extinguishing of indoor lighting and the color tone using a mobile terminal has already been proposed (see Patent Literature 1).

On the other hand, the lighting fixtures installed in the garden need to be turned on after sunset and turned off after sunrise in order to avoid unnecessary lighting, in addition to the user using a mobile device to turn on/off the lights. .

Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2015-211322

Takasho Co., Ltd. Web Catalog “LEDIUSCam Leaflet” published in July 2018

In general, methods for controlling the lighting time of lighting fixtures include a method using an illuminance sensor and a method using a timer.

Of these, the method using an illuminance sensor has the advantage of being able to turn on/off lighting fixtures according to the brightness of the outside, but if the sunlight is blocked by obstacles such as trees and houses, It will light up.

On the other hand, if a timer is used, the setting is simple, but the time of sunset/sunrise changes according to the change of seasons, so the time of the timer needs to be adjusted frequently.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made in view of such conventional problems, and provides an outdoor lighting system in which the times for turning off and turning on nighttime lighting can be easily set in accordance with the times of sunset and sunrise throughout the year. intended to provide

In order to achieve the above object, the outdoor lighting system according to the present invention includes:
A plurality of lighting fixtures installed outdoors,
a coordinator capable of communicating with the lighting fixtures by ZiGBee (registered trademark), a wireless communication standard , and controlling turning on and off of the lighting fixtures;
a server communicable with the coordinator via a network and transmitting time data of turning on and off the lighting equipment to the coordinator;
It is capable of communicating with the server via a network including a wireless telephone network, instructs the server to acquire information on the times of sunset and sunrise in the area where the lighting equipment is installed, and acquires the acquired time information. and a mobile terminal for setting the lighting and extinguishing times of the lighting equipment based on the above.

Here, the address information of the area where the lighting equipment is installed is obtained from the map information obtained from the first external server based on the position information of the mobile terminal, and the time information of sunset and sunrise in the area. is preferably obtained from a second external server with a database of Koyomi information.

Alternatively, the address information of the area where the lighting equipment is installed is obtained from the address information of the area obtained from the third external server based on the postal code, and the time information of sunset and sunrise in the area is obtained from It is preferably obtained from a fourth external server with a database of Koyomi information.

The lighting and turning off times in the portable terminal may be set collectively for the plurality of lighting fixtures as a group, or may be set for each fixture of the plurality of lighting fixtures.

Further, it is preferable that application software for setting times for turning on and turning off the plurality of lighting fixtures is installed in the portable terminal.

Further, the lighting management server according to the present invention is capable of communicating with a plurality of lighting fixtures installed outdoors by ZiGBee (registered trademark), which is a wireless communication standard , and turning on and off the lighting fixtures. A lighting management server used in an outdoor lighting system including a coordinator to control and a mobile terminal used by a user, and managing the operation of the lighting fixture via the coordinator,
communicable with the mobile terminal via a network including a wireless telephone network, and communicable with the coordinator via the network;
Acquiring information on the times of sunset and sunrise in the area where the lighting equipment is installed in accordance with the instructions of the mobile terminal, and the times of turning on and turning off the lighting equipment, which are set based on the obtained time information. Data is received from the mobile terminal and transmitted to the coordinator.

According to the outdoor lighting system of the present invention, the lighting equipment can be turned on/off according to the time of sunset/sunrise, so that power consumption due to useless lighting can be avoided.

Moreover, the times for turning on/off can be easily set using a mobile terminal based on the sunset/sunrise time information acquired by the lighting management server, making it very convenient when controlling lighting using a mobile terminal. Get even higher.

It is a figure showing the whole outdoor lighting system composition concerning an embodiment of the invention. It is a block diagram which shows the structure of a portable terminal and a lighting management server among the same systems. It is a block diagram which shows the structure of a coordinator and a lighting fixture among the same systems. 4 is a flow chart showing a procedure for turning on/off the lights in the outdoor lighting system according to the present embodiment; FIG. 10 is a diagram showing a screen of a mobile terminal when acquiring address information of an area where a garden is located; FIG. 11 is a diagram (part 1) showing a screen of a mobile terminal for setting the lighting/extinguishing time of a lighting fixture; FIG. 11 is a diagram (part 2) showing a screen of a mobile terminal for setting the lighting/lighting-out times of lighting fixtures;

An outdoor lighting system according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

<Overview of outdoor lighting system>
FIG. 1 shows the overall configuration of an outdoor lighting system according to this embodiment. The outdoor lighting system 100 includes a mobile terminal 1, a lighting management server 2, a network 3, a router 4, a coordinator 5, and lighting fixtures 6a, 6b and 6c (hereinafter collectively referred to as "lighting fixture 6"). . In the figure, devices connected by solid arrows communicate data by wire, and devices connected by dashed arrows communicate data wirelessly.

In this embodiment, the user operates the mobile terminal 1 to control the lighting/lighting out of a plurality of lighting fixtures 6a, 6b, and 6c distributedly installed in the garden G surrounded by the dashed line in the figure. A case will be described. The outdoor lighting system according to the present invention can be applied not only when the lighting fixture 6 is installed in the garden G of a house, but also when it is installed in a park, a schoolyard, or the like.

The outdoor lighting system 100 according to the present invention, when controlling the lighting/extinguishing of lighting fixtures 6 installed outdoors using a user's portable terminal 1, sets the time information of sunset/sunrise in the area where the garden G is located. is acquired from an external server, and the time for turning on/off the lighting device 6 is set based on the time information.

Based on the acquired sunset/sunrise time information, if the mobile terminal 1 is operated to set the lighting/lighting-out times, then the lighting equipment 6 will turn on at the designated times according to the instructions from the server 2. , and turn off again. As a result, power consumption due to useless lighting can be avoided while ensuring the user's convenience that the lighting fixtures 6 installed in the garden G can be turned on/off by the portable terminal 1 from a remote location.

An outline of a procedure for controlling lighting/lighting out of the lighting device 6 using the mobile terminal 1 will be described. A mobile terminal 1 is connected to a lighting management server (hereinafter simply referred to as "server") 2 via a network 3 including a wireless telephone network. The server 2 is preinstalled with software for managing the operation of the lighting fixtures 6 installed in the garden G. On the other hand, the mobile terminal 1 has application software for setting the turn-on time and turn-off time of the lighting fixtures 6. Pre-installed.

First, the user acquires the address information (prefecture name, municipality name) of the area where the garden G is located. There are three methods for acquiring the address information, including a method using the external server 7a (details of the acquisition method will be described later). The user who has acquired the address information notifies the information to the server 2 using the mobile terminal 1 .

An external server (for example, a server of the Japan Weather Association) 7b connected to the server 2 via the network 3 stores, as a database, calendar information including sunset/sunrise time information for each region and each season. . The server 2 accesses the external server 7b and acquires the current sunset/sunrise time information in the notified area. The sunset/sunrise time information acquired by the server 2 is transmitted to the mobile terminal 1 .

Based on the sunset/sunrise time information transmitted to the mobile terminal 1, the user sets the turn-on and turn-off times of the lighting fixtures 6 installed in the garden G (details of the setting method will be described later). Time data for lighting/lighting out set by the user is transmitted to the server 2 .

The server 2 transmits to the coordinator 5 via the router 4 the time data of turning on/off the lighting equipment 6 transmitted from the mobile terminal 1 . The coordinator 5 controls the operation of the lighting fixtures 6a, 6b, and 6c based on the lighting/lighting-out time data transmitted from the server 2, turns on the lighting fixtures at the designated time, and turns off the lighting at the designated time. do.

<Configuration and functions of mobile terminal and server>
Next, the configurations and functions of the mobile terminal 1 and the server 2 among the devices configuring the outdoor lighting system 100 will be described with reference to FIG. First, the mobile terminal 1 will be explained.

As shown in FIG. 2 , the mobile terminal 1 includes a control section 11 , a storage section 12 , a communication section 13 , a display section 14 , an input section 15 and a GPS receiver 17 .

The control unit 11 comprehensively controls each unit of the mobile terminal 1 and implements each function of display control 111 and lighting setting 112 . These functions are implemented by a CPU (not shown) executing software stored in the storage unit 12 .

A display control 111 among the functions of the control unit 11 performs display control of an image displayed on the display unit 14 . The lighting setting 112 is used when setting the turning-on/turning-off time of the lighting device 6 based on the sunset/sunrise time information received from the server 2 .

The storage unit 12 is composed of non-volatile memory such as ROM and flash memory, and volatile memory such as RAM. Among them, the nonvolatile memory stores various software executed by the control unit 11, and the volatile memory stores data used in the software and is used as a working memory.

The communication unit 13 is a communication interface for the mobile terminal 1 to communicate with external devices. The communication unit 13 can communicate with a communication unit 23 of the server 2, which will be described later, via the network 3 including a wireless telephone network.

A display unit 14 that displays an image and an input unit 15 that receives user input are configured by an integrated touch panel 16 . The user can set the turn-on/turn-off time of the lighting device 6 by tapping (finger touch) each button displayed on the touch panel 16 .

Note that the display unit 14 and the input unit 15 may be separate members. In this case, the user sets the lighting and extinguishing times of the lighting device 6 by operating the input unit 15 .

The GPS receiver 17 is a device that receives signals from satellites and obtains position information (latitude and longitude information) of the mobile terminal 1. By superimposing the position information on the map information obtained from the external server 7a, the GPS receiver 17 The position of the terminal 1 can be displayed on the map.

Next, the server 2 will be explained. The server 2 is composed of a control section 21 , a storage section 22 and a communication section 23 . Either a single server or a cloud server may be used as the server 2 .

The control unit 21 controls each unit of the server 2 in an integrated manner, and exhibits the function of the lighting control 211 . The functions of the control unit 21 are realized by reading software stored in the storage unit 22 and executing it by a CPU (not shown).

The lighting control 211 creates control data for the lighting fixture 6 based on the lighting/lighting out time data set by the mobile terminal 1 and transmits the data to the coordinator 5 .

The storage unit 22 is composed of non-volatile memory such as ROM and HD, and volatile memory such as RAM. The nonvolatile memory mainly stores software executed by the control unit 21, and the volatile memory stores data used by the software. Volatile memory is also used as working memory when software is executed by the CPU.

Next, each device installed in the garden G will be described with reference to FIG. Power is supplied through a transformer 9 to the coordinator 5, lighting equipment 6 and camera 8 installed in the garden G. An AC voltage of 100 volts (V) supplied from a commercial power supply is converted to a DC voltage of 12 V by a transformer 9 and then supplied to each device through a cable 91 . By converting the AC voltage of 100V into the DC voltage of 12V by the transformer 9, the handling of the electric appliance becomes easy, and the occurrence of electric shock accidents can be prevented.

A control signal for lighting equipment 6 generated by server 2 is transferred to coordinator 4 installed in garden G via network 3 and wireless router 4 . Signals are transmitted between the wireless router 4 and the coordinator 5 according to Wi-Fi (registered trademark), which is a wireless LAN communication standard.

In FIG. 1, a camera 8 is installed in the garden G, and a video signal of the garden captured by the camera 8 is transmitted to the wireless router 4 via Wi-Fi (registered trademark) , and further via the network 3. The image of the garden G is transmitted to the server 3, and finally the image of the garden G is displayed on the display unit 14 of the mobile terminal. However, since photographing of the garden by the camera 8 is not directly related to the present invention, detailed description thereof will be omitted.

<Structure and function of coordinator and lighting equipment>
Next, the configuration and function of the coordinator 5 and lighting fixtures 6 installed in the garden G will be described with reference to FIG.

In this embodiment, ZigBee (registered trademark) is used for communication between the coordinator 5 and the lighting equipment 6 . ZigBee (registered trademark) is one of the short-range wireless communication standards, and has the characteristics of low power consumption and low cost manufacturing of terminals in exchange for a slow data transfer rate. The basic specification is standardized as IEEE802.15.4.

As will be described later, the coordinator 5 incorporates a first communication unit conforming to Wi-Fi (registered trademark) and a second communication unit conforming to ZigBee (registered trademark). Communication is performed between them by Wi-Fi (registered trademark) , and communication with the lighting fixture 6 is performed by ZigBee (registered trademark) .

The coordinator 5 functions as a “coordinator” in the ZigBee (registered trademark) network, and controls lighting and extinguishing of the plurality of lighting fixtures 6 according to control signals transmitted from the server 2 via the wireless router 5 .

On the other hand, the luminaire 6 functions as an “end device” or “router” in the ZigBee® network. In FIG. 1 above, luminaire 6a functions as a "router" and luminaires 6b and 6c function as "end devices". As indicated by dashed arrows in FIG. 1, the turn-on/turn-off instruction signal transmitted from the coordinator 5 is transferred between the lighting fixtures 6a, 6b and 6c in a bucket brigade manner.

As shown in FIG. 3, the coordinator 5 is composed of a controller 51 that controls the overall operation, and two communication units 5-7 and 5-8 . The controller 51 includes a CPU 52 , a nonvolatile memory 53 , a volatile memory 54 , an input/display section 55 and a clock section 56 .

The CPU 52 confirms the lighting/extinguishing time data extracted from the packet received by the communication unit 57, and instructs the communication unit 58 to generate a packet including a lighting/extinction instruction signal.

The nonvolatile memory 53 is composed of ROM and flash memory, and stores control programs and operation parameters. In addition, time data of turning on/off transmitted from the server 2 is written in the flash memory.

On the other hand, the volatile memory 54 is composed of RAM and temporarily stores run-time data. Volatile memory 54 retains data only while power is supplied.

The input/display unit 55 is composed of a touch panel type liquid crystal display, displays data transmitted from the server 2, and is used to confirm the time of turning on/off.

The clock unit 56 incorporates a timer composed of an RTC (real-time clock, a semiconductor chip dedicated to clocking), and is used when instructing the lighting device 6 to turn on and off.

Of the two communication units, the first communication unit 57 is configured in conformity with Wi-Fi (registered trademark) , and is transmitted from the wireless router 5 and receives time data of turning on/off from the packet received by the antenna 571. Take it out and pass it to the controller 51 .

On the other hand, the second communication unit 58 adds information such as a header to the turn-on/off instruction signal generated by the CPU 52 to generate a packet for data transfer, and wirelessly transmits the packet from the antenna 581 . The data transfer packet contains the address of the coordinator 5 as the transmission source, the address of the lighting fixture 6 as the transmission destination, a turn-on/turn-off instruction signal, and a CRC for parity check.

Next, the lighting fixture 6 will be described. The lighting fixture 6 includes a controller 61 that controls the operation of the lighting fixture 6 including the brightness and color tone of the lighting, a light-emitting unit 66 composed of a plurality of LEDs with different emission colors, and a coordinator 5 and other lighting fixtures 6. A communication unit 67 for communication is provided.

Among them, the controller 61 has a function of turning on/off the light emitting unit 66 according to the control signal sent from the coordinator 5 and a function of controlling the light emitting unit 66 to illuminate with arbitrary brightness and color tone.

The controller 61 is composed of a CPU 62 , a nonvolatile memory 63 , a volatile memory 64 and an input section/display section 65 .

The CPU 62 has a function of controlling lighting/extinguishing of the light emitting section 66 and a function of causing the light emitting section 66 to emit light with a predetermined brightness and color tone based on data stored in the nonvolatile memory 63 .

The nonvolatile memory 63 is composed of ROM and flash memory, and is written with control programs and operation parameters. Data specifying the brightness and color tone of the light emitting unit 66 input from the input/display unit 65 is written in the flash memory. On the other hand, the volatile memory 64 is composed of a RAM and temporarily stores the turn-on/turn-off instruction signal and runtime data transmitted from the coordinator 5 .

The input/display unit 65 is composed of a touch panel type liquid crystal display, and is used to specify the brightness and color tone of light emitted from the light emitting unit 66 and to confirm input data.

The light emitting unit 66 is composed of a plurality of LEDs with different emission colors, and realizes lighting with different brightness and color tone by changing the value of the current flowing through each LED.

The communication unit 67 confirms the address of the packet received by the antenna 671, reads out the written data for the packet addressed to itself, and transfers it to the controller 61, while for the packet addressed to other lighting fixtures, the packet is sent to the downstream side. transfer to

As described above, the communication unit 67 has a packet relay function, and not only receives packets transmitted from the coordinator 5 itself, but also transfers the packets to other lighting fixtures 6 . Although not shown, the communication unit 67 stores in its built-in memory an address list that determines to which of the lighting fixtures 6 farther from the coordinator 5 the data is to be transferred.

For example, in FIG. 1, a packet sent from coordinator 5 to lighting fixture 6a acting as a "router" is forwarded to lighting fixtures 6b and 6c acting as "end devices". In the figure, only three lighting fixtures are installed in the garden G, but even if several dozen lighting fixtures are installed, the packets are forwarded in a bucket brigade manner by the above-described method, and finally, All lighting fixtures 6 receive packets addressed to them from the coordinator 5 .

<Procedure for turning on/off>
Next, with reference to FIGS. 4 to 7, procedures for turning on/off lighting fixture 6 in the outdoor lighting system according to the present embodiment will be described. FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing a procedure for turning on/off the outdoor lighting system 100. As shown in FIG.

The user who controls the lighting/extinguishing of the lighting fixtures 6 by this system adjusts the brightness and color tone of each lighting fixture installed in the garden G and sets the data transfer route as a preliminary work.

Specifically, the user inputs the brightness and color tone data to be specified from the input unit 65 of the lighting device 6 . After confirming that there is no error in the input data on the display unit 66 , the user stores the data in the nonvolatile memory 63 .

Furthermore, the user writes the address of the lighting fixture 6 to which the data is to be transferred to the memory (not shown) of the communication section 58 of the coordinator 5 and the communication section 69 of the lighting fixture 6 to establish a data transfer route. After completing the preparation for turning on/off in this way, the work shown in FIG. 4 is started.

First, the user taps an icon (not shown) of the outdoor lighting system displayed on the screen of the mobile terminal 1 to start the application software of the outdoor lighting system (step S11). Then, a screen P1 for registering a region name shown in FIG.

The user uses the screen P1 to acquire the name of the area where the garden G is located (prefecture name, municipality name) (step S12). As shown in the area P11 of the screen P1, there are three methods for obtaining the area name.

A first method is a method of acquiring a region name from the location information of the mobile terminal 1 . Specifically, the latitude/longitude information of the mobile terminal 1 is acquired using the built-in GPS receiver 17 using the position display function, which is a function of the mobile terminal 1 .

FIG. 5(b) shows a screen P1 of the mobile terminal 1 when the map information is acquired from the database of the external server 7a based on the latitude/longitude information of the mobile terminal 1. FIG. When the user selects the "search from location information" button from the area P11 displayed on the screen P1, an area P12 below the button displays map information and area names near the mobile terminal 1 acquired from the external server 7a. "○○○ prefecture △△ city" is displayed. An example of a map information database is a database provided by Google.

The second method is to obtain the area name from the postal code of the area where the garden G is located. As shown in FIG. 5(c), when the user selects the "search by postal code" button from the area P11 of the screen P1, the mobile terminal 1 accesses the database of the external server 7a storing postal code information. Then, in the area P13, the area name corresponding to the postal code, "○○○ prefecture △△ city" is displayed. An example of a postal code database is a database provided by Japan Post Co., Ltd.

A third method is a method in which the user searches for the name of the area where the garden is located using some method and directly inputs the name of the area on the screen P1 of the portable terminal 1. FIG. In this case, after selecting the "search by region name" button displayed in the selection area P11 of the screen P1 of the mobile terminal, open a pull-down menu (not shown) of prefecture name and municipality name and select the region name. Enter

After obtaining the address information of the area where the garden G is located by any of the above methods, the user taps the "registration" button P13 on the screen P1 to register the name of the area in the server 2 and turn on the night lighting. instruct (step S13).

The server 2 accesses the external server 7b according to the instruction of the information terminal 1, acquires the current sunset/sunrise time information in the specified area, and transmits the information to the mobile terminal 1, It is displayed on the "timer setting" screen P2 shown in FIG.

The user selects an area P21 of "sunset/sunrise setting" on the screen P2 shown in FIG. On the screen P2, the times of sunset/sunrise obtained from the external server 7b are displayed in an area P22.

The user sets the lighting start time using the area P23, and sets the lighting end (extinguishing) time using the area P24. Similarly, area P25 is used to set whether to repeat lighting/light-out, and areas P26 and P27 are used to select either a reserved group or reserved scene. If the manual timer is used to set the turn-on/turn-off times without using the sunset/sunrise time data, the area P28 is used to set the time.

When setting the lighting start time, the user taps the area P23 to open the screen P3 shown in FIG. 7A, and sets how much before or after sunset the lighting start time. Similarly, when setting the lighting end time, tap the area P24 to open the screen P4 shown in FIG. or

To repeat the set lighting start time and lighting end time, tap the area P24 to open the screen P5 shown in FIG. When repeating is selected, the lighting device 6 is turned on and off at the set time on the selected day of the week.

Next, when the "reservation group" in the area P26 is selected, it is possible to set the turn-on time and turn-off time for all the lighting fixtures 6 installed in the garden G as a group. On the other hand, when the "reserved scene" in the area P26 is selected, the lighting time and lighting time can be set for each lighting device 6. FIG. In the following description, it is assumed that the user selects "reservation group".

When the setting of the lighting/extinguishing time using the screen P2 is completed, the server 2 transmits the set lighting/extinguishing time data to the coordinator 5 (step S22). The controller 51 of the coordinator 5 that has received the time data from the server 2 stores the data in the non-volatile memory 53 and starts controlling the lighting/extinguishing of the lighting equipment 6 (step S31).

The CPU 54 of the controller 51 reads out the above-described lighting/lighting out time data from the nonvolatile memory 53, compares the read value with the time data output from the clock unit 56, and when the lighting time comes (step S32). Yes), to instruct lighting. Upon receiving this instruction, the communication unit 58 generates a packet including a lighting instruction signal for the three lighting fixtures 6a, 6b, and 6c, and uses the broadcast function to transmit it to each lighting fixture (step S33). ).

The packets generated by the coordinator 5 are transferred between the lighting fixtures 6 in a bucket-brigade manner according to a predetermined route and reach the lighting fixtures 6a, 6b and 6c.

The communication unit 67 of the lighting device 6 that has received the packet extracts data for instructing lighting from the packet, and transfers the data to the CPU 62 of the controller 61 . The CPU 62 lights the light emitting unit 66 based on the lighting instruction data, and performs illumination with predetermined brightness and color tone (step S41). In this way, all the lighting fixtures 6 start lighting at the time designated by the mobile terminal 1 .

The CPU 52 of the coordinator 5 continues to monitor the time data output from the clock unit 56, and when the time data matches the time data for turning off the light read out from the nonvolatile memory 53 (Yes in step S34), instructs to turn off the light. do. Upon receiving this instruction, the communication unit 58 generates a packet including a turn-off instruction signal and transmits it to the lighting fixtures 6a, 6b and 6c (step S35).

The packet transmitted from the coordinator 5 is transferred to the lighting fixtures 6a, 6b and 6c via the same route as for lighting, and the communication section 67 extracts a turn-off instruction signal from the packet and passes it to the CPU 62 of the controller. be The CPU 62 turns off the light emitting section 66 in accordance with the received turn-off instruction signal (step S42).

As described above, according to the procedure shown in FIG. 4, the lighting fixtures 6 installed in the garden G are turned on at times set according to the time information of sunset/sunrise in the area where the garden G is located. /By turning off the light, it is possible to avoid wasting power due to useless lighting. Moreover, since the time of turning on/off can be set using the portable terminal 1 based on the information on the time of sunset/sunrise acquired by the server 2, the user's convenience is further enhanced.

If the user does not cancel the nighttime lighting instruction on the mobile terminal 1, the server 2 periodically (for example, once a month) accesses the external server 7b to obtain the latest sunset/sunrise time information. do. Then, the lighting/lighting-out time is updated based on the time information, and the time data is transmitted to the coordinator 5 . Upon receiving the time data, the coordinator 5 turns on/off the lighting equipment 6 based on the updated time data according to the procedure of FIG.

In the above-described embodiment, the case where the reservation group P26 is selected on the "timer setting" screen P2 of FIG. By selecting the scene P27, it is possible to set the turn-on time and turn-off time for each lighting device 6. FIG. In this case, the coordinator 5 generates a packet including a turn-on/turn-off instruction signal for each lighting fixture and transmits it to each lighting fixture.

1 mobile terminal 2 server 3 network 4 wireless router 5 coordinator 6 lighting equipment 7a, 7b external server 8 camera 9 transformer 11, 21 control unit 12, 22 storage unit 13, 23, 57, 58, 67 communication unit 14, display unit 15 Input unit 16 touch panel 17 GPS receiver 51, 61 controller 52, 62 CPU
53, 63 Non-volatile memory 54, 64 Volatile memory 55, 65 Input/display unit 56 Clock unit 66 Light-emitting unit 100 Outdoor lighting system G Garden P1-P5 Screen P11-P14, P21-P28 Area

Claims (4)

A plurality of lighting fixtures installed outdoors,
a coordinator capable of communicating with the lighting fixtures by ZiGBee (registered trademark), a wireless communication standard , and controlling turning on and off of the lighting fixtures;
a server communicable with the coordinator via a network and transmitting time data of turning on and off the lighting equipment to the coordinator;
It is capable of communicating with the server via a network including a wireless telephone network, instructs the server to acquire information on the times of sunset and sunrise in the area where the lighting equipment is installed, and acquires the acquired time information. an outdoor lighting system, comprising: a portable terminal for setting the lighting and turning off times of the lighting fixture based on the above. obtaining the address information of the area where the lighting equipment is installed from the map information obtained from the first external server based on the position information of the mobile terminal;
2. The outdoor lighting system according to claim 1, wherein the information on times of sunset and sunrise in the area is obtained from a second external server having a database of sky information. The address information of the area where the lighting equipment is installed is obtained from the address information of the area obtained from the third external server based on the postal code,
2. The outdoor lighting system according to claim 1, wherein the information on times of sunset and sunrise in the area is obtained from a fourth external server having a database of sky information. A coordinator capable of communicating with a plurality of lighting fixtures installed outdoors by ZiGBee (registered trademark), which is a wireless communication standard , for controlling the lighting and extinguishing of the lighting fixtures, and a mobile terminal used by a user. and a lighting management server that manages the operation of the lighting equipment via the coordinator,
communicable with the mobile terminal via a network including a wireless telephone network, and communicable with the coordinator via the network;
Acquiring information on the times of sunset and sunrise in the area where the lighting equipment is installed in accordance with the instructions of the mobile terminal, and the times of turning on and turning off the lighting equipment, which are set based on the obtained time information. A lighting management server that receives data from the mobile terminal and transmits the data to the coordinator.

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