The example embodiments of the present invention relate to automatically adapting the operation of a luminaire in accordance with information received from other luminaires and other devices and/or with information obtained from its environment. In particular the example embodiments relate to the task of determining, how strongly the luminaire should react to information received from a particular other luminaire.

The European patent publication EP2919562 describes a learning luminaire, a characteristic feature of which is that it can analyze status indications it receives from other luminaires, and adapt its own operation according to identified sequences of status indications that seem to occur with some kind of regularity before the luminaire itself observes the fulfillment of a triggering condition. For example, if a luminaire A observes that a particular other luminaire B often seems to transmit a message essentially telling “my sensor saw movement, I switch lights on” only a short time before luminaire A itself observes movement, it may deduce that walking users tend to appear under luminaire B first and then proceed to the area served by luminaire A. As a consequence, luminaire A may begin reacting to this kind of messages from luminaire B so that it already begins to brighten its own light, thus increasing user comfort because the user perceives the lighting system predicting his movements and lighting up his path ahead of him.