| CPC H04L 47/564 (2013.01) [H05B 47/19 (2020.01)] | 17 Claims |
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1. A luminaire network system comprising one or more luminaires, wherein a luminaire thereof comprises:
a luminaire controller;
at least one measurement device configured to measure data related to at least one of the corresponding luminaire or the environment thereof,
wherein the data measured by the at least one measurement device is any one of the following or a combination thereof: a measure indicative for a broken light source, a measure for the energy consumption of the luminaire, a light level, sound data, audio data, air quality data, image data, visibility data, electric grid perturbation data, temperature data, humidity data, and vibration data; and
a storage device configured to store messages to be transmitted in a queue,
wherein the luminaire controller is configured to:
include the measured data in a message and store it in the queue of the storage device;
associate the message in the queue with an indication of a time,
wherein the indication of the time comprises a delay time period within which the message needs to be transmitted and a time reference and wherein the time reference is a reference for a point in time on which the measured data included in the message was measured, or wherein the indication of the time comprises an absolute time by which the message needs to be sent, or wherein the luminaire controller is configured to select the indication of the time from a plurality of priority levels, each priority level being associated with a time before which the message needs to be transmitted;
check whether the indication of the time associated with at least one message of a plurality of messages in the queue indicates that the at least one message has to be transmitted; and
transmit the plurality of messages in the queue, when a result of the checking is that the at least one message has to be transmitted.
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