US Patent 9763310 Systems and methods for commissioning a lighting system

Embodiments are provided for commissioning a lighting system that includes a plurality of luminaires. According to certain aspects, an electronic device can, for each of the plurality of luminaires, connect to a luminaire and retrieve an identification of the luminaire. The electronic device can associate its location as the location of the luminaire, as well as prompt a user to associate a layout tag of existing layout data for the lighting system with the luminaire. The electronic device can transmit the commissioning data for the lighting system to a server for remote storage. The server enables remote access to the commissioning data by various electronic devices and users thereof.