A kind of Lighting Control Assembly, lighting device and middle controller
Technical field
The present invention relates to a kind of Lighting Control Assembly.
Background technology
The application of the illumination of lighting device is more and more extensive in the modern society, and the lighting requirement control of illumination apparatus is also more and more higher, for example require lamp can be automatically, switch periodically, perhaps require lamp that different brightness of illuminations can be provided according to the different periods.
Proposition proposes to utilize remote controller to control these lighting devices for the convenience of the users for the control of these lighting devices in the prior art.But, the extra increase that remote controller can cause cost is set specially.Further propose in the prior art, control these lighting devices by mobile phone.Generally include some wireless proximity modules in the mobile phone, for example the WLAN/WIFI/ bluetooth module in order to engage with these modules, is provided with corresponding WLAN/WIFI/ bluetooth module (referring to accompanying drawing 1) in each lighting device.But, because WLAN/WIFI/ bluetooth module with high costs, even exceed the price of lighting device itself, so greatly limited the scope of application of these lighting devices.
Summary of the invention
The object of the present invention is to provide a kind of new Lighting Control Assembly, this Lighting Control Assembly can overcome each shortcoming that exists in the prior art, has low cost, the convenient advantage of handling.
Realize by a kind of like this Lighting Control Assembly according to purpose of the present invention, it is a kind of Lighting Control Assembly, it is characterized in that: comprise mobile phone, middle controller and a plurality of lighting device, described mobile phone is undertaken first with described middle controller by the first short-range wireless communication agreement communicates by letter, and carries out second communication by the second short-range wireless communication agreement between described middle controller and the described a plurality of lighting device.Middle controller is so that communicate with another kind of wireless transmission protocol between a plurality of lighting device and the mobile phone, this wireless transmission protocol can be different from mobile phone with the agreement of wireless communication module, thereby for improvement design, reduce cost possibility is provided.
According to a specific embodiment of the present invention, described middle controller comprises for the first communication module of described the first communication and is used for the second communication module of described second communication that described first communication module and second communication module carry out exchanges data each other.Therefore middle controller can play the conversion of the different-format of the control information between these two kinds of communication patterns well.
Preferably, described the second short-range wireless communication agreement is Zigbee protocol.Zigbee protocol has the advantage that network capacity is large, cost is low and deliver in relays, the control that is suitable for Long-distance Control and management and is suitable for a plurality of lighting devices of distribution in the large tracts of land scope.Correspondingly, described second communication module is the ZigBee module, each lighting device comprise with described ZigBee module communicate the ZigBee module.Because the price of ZigBee module significantly is lower than the WLAN/WIFI/ bluetooth module, therefore when having realized wireless transmission equally, significantly reduced cost.
Preferably, described ZigBee module is the ZigBee chip that is loaded with wireless protocols, includes but are not limited to the CC2530 chip.
According to a preferred embodiment of the invention, the quantity of described middle controller is one.Thereby the first communication module that is used for described the first communication in the middle controller and the quantity that is used for the second communication module of described second communication are one.Can reduce widely cost by reducing especially comparatively expensive quantity with first communication module mobile phone communications.
Preferably, described the first short-range wireless communication agreement is WLAN (WIFI) or Bluetooth agreement.Correspondingly, described first communication module is the WLAN/Bluetooth module.The WLAN/Bluetooth module is can be WLAN chip or Bluetooth chip, includes but not limited to the WL1251 chip.
According to an aspect of the present invention, middle controller also comprises the UART interface between described ZigBee module and the GPRS module.
The invention still further relates to corresponding lighting device and middle controller.
Can realize controlling cheaply according to Lighting Control Assembly of the present invention, can realize preferably utilizing mobile phone to carry out control and management simultaneously.
Description of drawings
In the accompanying drawing, in different views, similar reference number is often referred to identical part.In following specification, with reference to following accompanying drawing, various embodiment of the present invention has been described, wherein:
Fig. 1 shows the schematic layout pattern of Lighting Control Assembly of the prior art;
Fig. 2 shows the schematic layout pattern of the Lighting Control Assembly of a specific embodiment according to the present invention;
Fig. 3 shows the schematic layout pattern of the middle controller of a specific embodiment according to the present invention.
Embodiment
Fig. 2 shows the schematic layout pattern of the Lighting Control Assembly 100 of the specific embodiment according to the present invention.Lighting Control Assembly 100 comprises mobile phone 1, WLAN/Bluetooth-ZigBee middle controller 2, a plurality of lighting device 3 with ZigBee module 4.Realize wireless link 6 by short-range wireless communication agreement WLAN/Bluetooth between mobile phone 1 and the WLAN/Bluetooth-ZigBee middle controller 2, WLAN/Bluetooth-ZigBee middle controller 2 is realized wireless link 7 with a plurality of lighting devices 3 with ZigBee module 4 by wireless communication protocol ZigBee.
The topological structure of a plurality of lighting devices 3 with ZigBee module 4 can be arbitrarily, each lighting device 3 both can receive the information that adjacent lighting device 3 sends, and also can transmit received information and continue transmission of information by other adjacent lighting device to other adjacent lighting device 3.As long as thereby some of them lighting device 3 arranges and can make all lighting device realization information transmission by Zigbee protocol so that the ZigBee module 4 of lighting device 3 is carried out communication with the ZigBee module 9 of controller 3 near WLAN/Bluetooth-ZigBee middle controller 3.Therefore, expensive WLAN/Bluetooth module can be set in the lighting device 3, and can reduce significantly controller 2 quantity and and then reduce the quantity of expensive WLAN/Bluetooth module, thereby reduce cost.
Middle controller 2 also can adopt other wireless communication protocol and mobile phone 1 to communicate.Certainly, the short-range wireless communication agreement that also can consider other realizes communicating by letter between lighting device 4 and the controller 2.
Fig. 3 shows the schematic layout pattern of the middle controller 2 of the specific embodiment according to the present invention.Middle controller 2 comprises a WLAN/Bluetooth module 8 and a ZigBee module 9.WLAN/Bluetooth module 8 is used for carrying out first with mobile phone 1 communicates by letter, and ZigBee module 9 is carried out second communication with the ZigBee module 4 that is arranged in the lighting device 3 by short-range wireless communication agreement Zigbee protocol.WLAN/Bluetooth module 8 and ZigBee module 9 communicate by hardware interface UART 10, in this embodiment, can select WL1251 as WLAN/Bluetooth module 8 and can select CC2530 as ZigBee module 9.
Therefore, the user can control for lighting device by middle controller 2 and can receive the information that is relevant to lighting device 3 by middle controller 2 from lighting device by mobile phone 1 by mobile phone 1, such as the state of lighting device, the information such as distribution of light source.Mobile phone 1 can provide number order, if Zigbee protocol has identical command definition, lighting device can identify these orders so.In addition, the user can also define number order, and these orders are used for setting up or recalling some scenes.For example, at first utilize the scenario definition order so that each lighting device is remembered the dimming level of special scenes, then can utilize the scene select command to select scene such as conference model, office mode, dance mode, sleep pattern etc.Can utilize better mobile phone by the software that arranges in the mobile phone 1.Because these are not emphasis of the present invention, therefore, do not repeat them here.
List of reference characters:
100 Lighting Control Assemblies
1 mobile phone
2 middle controllers
3 lighting devices
The 4ZigBee module
6 wireless links
7 wireless links
The 8WLAN/Bluetooth module
The 9ZigBee module
The 10UART interface.