US 11,672,072 B2
Sensor-based lighting system with integrated wireless repeater
Nam Chin Cho, Peachtree City, GA (US); and Parth Joshi, Atlanta, GA (US)
Assigned to SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V., Eindhoven (NL)
Filed by SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V., Eindhoven (NL)
Filed on Sep. 14, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/474,111.
Application 17/474,111 is a continuation of application No. 16/362,385, filed on Mar. 22, 2019, granted, now 11,147,146.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/648,654, filed on Mar. 27, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0410257 A1, Dec. 30, 2021
Int. Cl. H05B 47/19 (2020.01); H04B 7/155 (2006.01); H05B 47/115 (2020.01); H04L 67/306 (2022.01)
CPC H05B 47/19 (2020.01) [H04B 7/155 (2013.01); H05B 47/115 (2020.01); H04L 67/306 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A sensor based lighting and repeater system, the system comprising:
an occupancy sensor configured to monitor a space and to output occupancy detection information indicating whether the space is occupied; and
a lighting fixture, the lighting fixture comprising:
a wireless signal repeater configured to receive an input wireless signal and to transmit an output wireless signal that corresponds to the input wireless signal; and
a communication circuit configured to the occupancy detection information from the occupancy sensor and provide the occupancy detection information to the wireless signal repeater;
wherein the wireless signal repeater is configured to modify a power level of the output wireless signal based on the occupancy detection information.