US 11,989,836 B2
Integrated management of sensitive controlled environments and items contained therein
Kenneth Craig Nemeth, Montreal (CA); and Abdul Rahman Mohammed Omar, Montreal (CA)
Assigned to CURRENT LIGHTING SOLUTIONS, LLC, Beachwood, OH (US)
Appl. No. 17/251,631
Filed by CURRENT LIGHTING SOLUTIONS, LLC, East Cleveland, OH (US)
PCT Filed Jun. 12, 2019, PCT No. PCT/US2019/036701
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Dec. 11, 2020,
PCT Pub. No. WO2019/241340, PCT Pub. Date Dec. 19, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/683,997, filed on Jun. 12, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0256771 A1, Aug. 19, 2021
Int. Cl. G06T 19/00 (2011.01); G01N 21/01 (2006.01); G01N 21/88 (2006.01)
CPC G06T 19/006 (2013.01) [G01N 21/01 (2013.01); G01N 21/8803 (2013.01); G01N 2021/0137 (2013.01); G06T 2219/028 (2013.01)] 9 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system (100) for monitoring a controlled spatial volume (102), the system including:
a lighting fixture (104) with one or more embedded sensors (106), the lighting fixture mounted within, or external to, the controlled spatial volume;
a first infrared grid sensor (410) positioned opposite a second infrared grid sensor at the top and bottom of a spatial environment defining a grid sensing area within the controlled spatial volume;
a first communication device (108) to provide monitored sensor data for storage in monitored sensor data records (142) within a data store (140);
a server (130) in communication with the data store, the server including a data analytic unit (136) comprising a machine vision unit (138), wherein the data analytic unit accesses the monitored sensor data records to analyze the monitored data and provide status information on the spatial volume, and wherein the machine vision unit applies image recognition techniques to examine monitored data for anomaly detection and to track products which have been removed, and implements thermal vision techniques to track interaction activity in the grid sensing area; and
a mobile computing device (150) comprising a control processor (152) operably connected to a memory (156), to an augmented reality application (160), to an input/output unit (158) configured for wireless communication, and to a user interface (162), wherein the control processor runs the augmented reality application (160) and displays an augmented reality rendition (520) of the monitored sensor data on the user interface for viewing by a user.