TW201818021A - Lighting device with wireless access function - Google Patents

Abstract

A lighting device with wireless access function is provided. The lighting device is provided with a wireless access unit and a networking unit connected to the wireless access unit so that the lighting device has a data exchange and processing function. Therefore, the present invention can overcome the problem that the existing base stations are difficult to locate, save the construction cost of the base station and improve the utilization rate of the common resources.

Description

Lighting device with wireless access

The present invention relates to a lighting device, and more particularly to a lighting device having a wireless access function.

The life of contemporary people is inseparable from mobile communication all the time. With the continuous development of mobile communication systems, the coverage of wireless signals is gradually refined. However, the size of the city is getting larger and larger, and the buildings are different in height, which is easy to generate signal blind spots. On the other hand, with the wider application range of smart devices, mobile networks are required to carry more data traffic, especially for dense areas, important business districts, etc., which requires seamless coverage of the network. It is more necessary to expand the capacity of the channel. The above-mentioned signal-free radiation dead zone, signal weak zone and insufficient signal capacity can be solved by constructing a small communication base station (ie, micro base station), and the micro base station has small volume, low power, fast construction, and investment. Less advantages have become the preferred solution for mobile communication operators. In addition, according to statistics, most of the data traffic flows occur indoors. Therefore, the industry has also proposed a solution for deep coverage of indoor environments by building small base stations.

However, due to residents’ fear of base station radiation, more and more small base stations that are traditionally built on the roof of the building have been relocated due to complaints, and the public use of land for communication operators to build base stations is decreasing. The location of the base station construction has brought great difficulties.

Existing public lighting resources, such as street lights set up on both sides of roads and walkways, or lighting equipment set up in large public places (such as parks, libraries), because of their spread throughout the city, with wide coverage and layout Uniform, and all installed at a certain height, can fully meet the construction needs of the micro base station for space occupation, distribution density, construction height and power distribution, and has become the most ideal habitat for micro base station construction.

In view of the above, how to rebuild the existing public lighting equipment so that it can serve as a small base station to meet the needs of mobile communication based on the maintenance of the original lighting function, that is, the technical problem to be solved in this case.

In view of the above problems of the prior art, the main object of the present invention is to provide a lighting device having a wireless access function, which can exchange and process data data between a near-end device and a remote device.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a lighting device having a wireless access function to overcome the current problem of difficulty in site selection of a base station.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a lighting device with an infinite access function, which integrates a mobile communication base station with an existing lighting device to save the construction cost of the base station and improve the utilization rate of the common resource.

To achieve the above and other objects, the present invention provides a lighting device having a wireless access function, which provides exchange and processing of data between at least one near-end device and a remote device, the lighting device including a light stand. , a carrier, a wireless access unit, an antenna, and a networked device. The light fixture comprises a light fixture and a support rod, the support rod provides support for the light fixture; the carrier body is configured to provide a load on the support rod; the wireless access unit is disposed on the light fixture for The at least one near-end device provides a wireless access service for wireless communication with the near-end device; the antenna is configured to provide wireless communication transmission between the wireless access unit and the near-end device; and the networked device is separately Connecting the wireless access unit and the remote device, and providing data data exchange and processing between the at least one near-end device and the remote device, wherein the antenna and the networked device are separately or simultaneously disposed on the network device On the luminaire, the support rod, and the carrier.

Preferably, in the above lighting device, the antenna further provides wireless communication transmission between the networked device and the remote device.

Preferably, in the above illumination device, the antenna is a thin antenna disposed on the inner surface or the outer surface of the lamp, and the antenna is protected and shielded by the lamp.

Preferably, in the above lighting device, the lighting device further includes an antenna cover body for covering the antenna, the antenna cover system being disposed on any one of the lamp, the support bar, and the carrier The antenna provides protection and shielding, and the antenna cover system is a non-metal cover; the antenna cover system has an antenna cover door that can be opened to provide maintenance or installation to the covered antenna.

Preferably, the lighting device further includes an equipment cover body for covering the networked device, the device cover system being disposed on the lamp, the support rod, and the carrier body, The network device is protected and shielded, and the device housing system has a device housing door that can be opened to provide maintenance or installation to the covered networked device.

Preferably, in the above lighting device, the carrying system is one of a lamp post and a wall.

Preferably, in the above lighting device, the networked device comprises one of a data transmission unit and a data exchange unit; the data transmission unit provides data transmission with the remote device; the data exchange unit The wireless access unit and the data transmission unit are connected, and data exchange processing is provided between the wireless access unit and the data transmission unit.

Preferably, in the above lighting device, the lamp is an LED lamp.

In summary, the lighting device with wireless access function of the present invention is provided with a wireless access unit on the luminaire, and a network connecting the wireless access unit is disposed on the luminaire, the support rod or the carrier of the lighting device. The unit uses the lighting device as a small base station to provide data data exchange and processing between the near-end device and the remote device. The design not only overcomes the problem of current base station location difficulty, but also directly utilizes existing lighting. The equipment resources are transformed to integrate the mobile communication base station with the public lighting resources, thereby saving the construction cost and construction period of the base station. Furthermore, the communication base station established based on the illumination device can also shorten the distance of signal access, and the requirement for the transmission power of the wireless access point can also be reduced, thereby reducing the damage caused by electromagnetic radiation.

The other aspects of the present invention will be readily understood by those skilled in the art from this disclosure. The invention may also be embodied or applied by other different embodiments. The details of the present invention can be variously modified and changed without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention. In particular, the relative relationship and relative positions of the various elements in the drawings are for illustrative purposes only and are not representative of actual implementation of the invention.

In view of the wide coverage, uniform distribution and short separation distance of the existing public lighting equipment, and the fact that the lighting equipment is installed at a certain height, the present invention proposes to integrate the micro base station with the existing public lighting resources, so that On the basis of maintaining the original lighting function, public lighting equipment can also be used as a small base station (for example, a mobile base station with a power of less than 5W or a wireless hotspot AP) to provide data data exchange and processing to meet the requirements of mobile communication. service requirements.

1 through 11 show various embodiments of a lighting device 10 having a wireless access function of the present invention, respectively. FIG. 12 is a basic block diagram for explaining the exchange and processing of data materials provided between the near-end device 20 and the remote device 30 by the illumination device 10 of the present invention. The near-end device 20 is, for example, a mobile terminal device such as a mobile phone, a tablet computer or a notebook computer, and the remote device 30 is, for example, a large-scale servo terminal such as a cloud server.

The lighting device 10 of the present invention is, for example, a street lamp on both sides of a road or a sidewalk or a street lamp on both sides of a walkway in a large public place, and is mainly composed of a light stand 11 and a carrier 12, wherein the light stand 11 It includes a lamp 111 and a support rod 113. The lamp 111 is a light-emitting component in which a lamp tube is mounted, for example, an LED lamp, and more preferably a low-temperature LED lamp, and the casing temperature is usually around 45 degrees Celsius in a well ventilated environment (please allow) Detailed later). The support rod 113 is used to provide support for the luminaire 111. The carrier 12 is used to erect the lamp holder 11, that is, to support the support rod 113, thereby carrying the lamp 111 thereon. In the embodiment of the present invention, the carrier 12 refers to a lamp post for erecting a street lamp (such as the embodiment shown in FIGS. 1 to 4), or a wall for erecting a gallery lamp and an aisle lamp (eg, The embodiment shown in FIGS. 5 to 9 is not limited thereto, and other carriers 12 of various configurations in which the lamp holder 11 can be mounted are suitable for the present case.

The illuminating device 10 of the present invention further includes a wireless access unit 13, an antenna 14, and a networked device 16, wherein the wireless access unit 13 is disposed on the luminaire 111 for the at least A near-end device 20 provides wireless access services for wireless communication with the near-end device 20. As described above, since the low-temperature LED lamp is used as the lighting unit in the present case, the wireless access unit 13 can be directly disposed on the lamp 111 without setting a fixing bracket to set the wireless access unit 13, thereby reducing engineering cost. The expenditure does not cause damage to the wireless access unit 13 due to excessive heat generated by the luminaire 111 during operation. In addition, the wireless access unit 13 disposed above the luminaire 111 also has good concealment, and the appearance of the original luminaire 10 can be preferably kept intact. Moreover, in order to achieve a good lighting effect, the setting of the lamp 111 generally has a certain height, so the wireless access unit 13 disposed above the lamp 111 can also meet the setting requirement of the height of the wireless signal transmission, which can be said to be more than one. The antenna 14 is mainly used to provide wireless communication transmission between the wireless access unit 13 and the near-end device 20. In addition, antenna 14 may also provide for wireless communication transmission between networked device 16 and remote device 30. The networked device 16 is connected to the wireless access unit 13 and the remote device 30 respectively, thereby implementing data exchange and processing between the near-end device 20 and the remote device 30, so that the lighting device 10 has both illumination and mobile communication. Features. Specifically, as shown in FIG. 12, the networked device 16 is composed of one of a data transmission unit 161 and a data exchange unit 163, wherein the data transmission unit 161 is provided between the remote device 30 and the remote device 30. Data transmission is performed by wire (for example, various types of digital subscriber lines or hybrid optical fiber coaxial cables) or wireless (for example, long-term evolution technology or microwave), and the data exchange unit 163 is connected to the wireless access unit 13 and the data transmission unit 161. The exchange processing of data is provided for the wireless access unit 13 and the data transmission unit 161.

It should be noted that, in the present invention, the antenna 14 and the networked device 15 can be separately or simultaneously disposed on the luminaire 111, the support rod 113, or the carrier 12 of the illuminating device 10 according to actual needs. For example, in the first embodiment shown in FIG. 1, the antenna 14 and the networked device 16 can be simultaneously disposed on the luminaire 111 in a stacked manner; in the second embodiment shown in FIG. 2, the antenna 14 is The networked device device 16 is disposed on the support rod 113; in the third embodiment shown in FIG. 3, the antenna 14 is disposed on the support rod 113 to set the networked device 16 on the light fixture 111; In the fourth embodiment shown in FIG. 4, the antenna 14 and the networked device 16 are simultaneously arranged side by side (may be superimposed, not shown) on the support rod 113; in the fifth embodiment shown in FIG. The antenna 14 and the networked device 16 are simultaneously disposed on the carrier 12 in a superimposed manner. In the sixth embodiment shown in FIG. 6, the networked device 16 is disposed on the luminaire 111, and the antenna 14 is disposed on the carrier 12. In the seventh embodiment shown in FIG. 7, the networked device 16 is disposed on the support rod 113, and the antenna 14 is disposed on the carrier 12. In the eighth embodiment shown in FIG. 8, the antenna 14 is Disposed on the support rod 113, and the networked device 16 is disposed on the carrier 12; the ninth shown in FIG. In the embodiment, the antenna 14 is disposed on the luminaire 111, and the networked device 16 is disposed on the carrier 12.

In addition, in the preferred embodiment of the present invention, the antenna 14 can be directly attached to the inner surface or the outer surface of the lamp 111 by using a thin antenna 14A/14B (as shown in FIG. 10 and FIG. 11). The lamp 111 provides protection and shielding for the thin antenna 14A/14B, and improves the concealment of the thin antenna 14A/14B, and can also meet the hardware configuration requirements of the low power mobile base station.

For the antenna 14 of the conventional type shown in FIG. 1 to FIG. 9, the illumination device 10 of the present invention can provide an antenna cover 15 for covering the antenna 14 to provide protection and shielding, and the antenna. The cover body 15 is selectively disposed on the lamp 111, the support rod 113, and the carrier 12 with the antenna 14. In order not to affect the normal operation of the antenna 14, the antenna housing 15 is designed as a non-metallic cover. Preferably, as shown in FIG. 1 , an openable antenna cover door 151 is disposed on the antenna cover body 15 to facilitate maintenance or installation operations on the antenna 14 covered by the antenna cover 15 .

With continued reference to FIGS. 1-9, the present invention also provides a device housing 17 for covering the networked device 16, which provides protection and shielding for the networked device 16. Similarly, the device cover 17 can also be disposed on the lamp 111, the support rod 113, and the carrier 12 along with the network device 16. Preferably, the device housing 17 also has a device housing door 171 (shown in FIG. 1) that can be opened to facilitate engineering personnel to provide maintenance or installation operations to the networked device 16 that it covers.

In summary, the lighting device with wireless access function of the present invention can also be used as a wireless access unit and a networking unit on a conventional public lighting device, so that the lighting device can also serve as a The mobile communication service is provided by the small base station to overcome the problem of difficulty in selecting the current base station, and the existing public resources can be effectively utilized to reduce the construction cost of the base station. In addition, the wireless access unit and the networking unit can be separately or simultaneously disposed on the luminaire, the support rod or the carrier of the lighting device according to actual needs, and have the advantages of flexible construction. Furthermore, since the base station constructed based on the public lighting device has a short distance (usually 2 to 30 meters), the distance of signal access can be shortened accordingly, and the distribution density can be reduced for the wireless access point. The emission power requirement can effectively reduce the environmental pollution caused by electromagnetic radiation.

The above embodiments are merely illustrative of the principles and effects of the invention and are not intended to limit the invention. Modifications and variations of the above-described embodiments can be made by those skilled in the art without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention. Therefore, the scope of the invention should be as defined in the scope of the invention.

10‧‧‧Lighting equipment

11‧‧‧Light stand

111‧‧‧Lighting

113‧‧‧Support rod

12‧‧‧Carrier

13‧‧‧Wireless access unit

14, 14A, 14B‧‧‧ antenna

15‧‧‧Antenna housing

151‧‧‧Antenna cover door

16‧‧‧Connected devices

17‧‧‧ Equipment outer cover

171‧‧‧ Equipment cover door

20‧‧‧ Near-end equipment

30‧‧‧ Remote equipment

1 to 11 are structural diagrams for explaining first to eleventh embodiments of a lighting apparatus having a wireless access function of the present invention;

Figure 12 is a basic block diagram illustrating the exchange and processing of data materials provided between the near-end device and the remote device of the illumination device of the present invention.

Claims (10)

A lighting device having a wireless access function, which provides exchange and processing of data between at least one near-end device and a remote device, the lighting device comprising: a light stand comprising a light fixture and a support rod, The support bar provides support for the luminaire; a carrier for providing the support; the wireless access unit is disposed on the luminaire for providing wireless access to the at least one near-end device And transmitting wireless communication with the near-end device; an antenna providing wireless communication transmission between the wireless access unit and the near-end device; and a networking device connecting the wireless access unit and the remote device respectively And providing data data exchange and processing between the at least one near-end device and the remote device, wherein the antenna and the networked device are separately or simultaneously disposed on the light fixture, the support bar, and the carrier Any of them. The lighting device of claim 1, wherein the antenna further provides wireless communication transmission between the networked device and the remote device. The illuminating device of claim 1, wherein the antenna is a thin antenna disposed on an inner surface or an outer surface of the luminaire, and the illuminator provides protection and shielding for the antenna. The lighting device of claim 1, wherein the lighting device further comprises an antenna cover for covering the antenna, the antenna cover system being disposed on the lamp, the support bar, and the carrier In either case, the antenna provides protection and obscuration. The lighting device of claim 4, wherein the antenna cover system is a non-metallic cover; the antenna cover system has an antenna cover door that can be opened to provide maintenance or installation to the covered antenna. The lighting device of claim 1, further comprising an equipment cover for covering the networked device, the device cover system being disposed on any one of the lamp, the support bar, and the carrier On, the protection and obscuration of the connected device. The lighting device of claim 6, wherein the device housing system has a device housing door that can be opened to provide maintenance or installation to the covered networked device. The lighting device of claim 1, wherein the carrying system is one of a lamp post and a wall. The lighting device of claim 1, wherein the networked device comprises one of a data transmission unit and a data exchange unit; the data transmission unit provides data transmission with the remote device; The data exchange unit is connected to the wireless access unit and the data transmission unit, and provides data exchange processing between the wireless access unit and the data transmission unit. The lighting device of claim 1, wherein the lighting device is an LED lamp.