Method for operating a communication device in a communication network, a communication device, a luminaire equipped with such communication device

1. A method for operating a communication device comprising a transceiver configured to communicate in a communication network, the method comprising:

a configuration phase including the steps of:

(a1) the communication device obtaining by means of a first telecommunication mode a selected role profile selected out of a set of role profiles, said selected role profile defining the role of the communication device in the communication network in an operation phase;

(a2) configuring or updating the communication network, with a network controller, by means of the communication device using the first telecommunication mode, wherein said configuring or updating is based on a second telecommunication mode, and

an operation phase including the steps of:

(b1) the communication device disabling or maintaining its transceiver to communicate by means of the first telecommunication mode depending on the selected role profile, and disabling the transceiver to communicate with the first telecommunication mode if the selected profile is an end device profile;

(b2) the communication device communicating in the communication network using said second telecommunication mode.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein step (b1) further comprises maintaining the transceiver to communicate with the first telecommunication mode if the selected profile is a router profile, and wherein step (b2) further comprises the communication device communicating in the communication network using the first telecommunication mode.

3. The method of claim 2 , wherein at step (b2) the first telecommunication mode is used to communicate between the communication device and the network controller, and the second telecommunication mode is used to communicate between the communication device and further communication devices of the communication network.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein step (a1) comprises the communication device determining a set of parameter values, and transmitting the set of parameter values to the network controller for selection of the selected role profile of the communication device.

5. The method of claim 4 , wherein the set of parameters includes at least one of the following: identifier, neighboring communication devices identifiers, geolocation details, link quality of the first telecommunication mode, link quality of the second telecommunication mode.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the configuration phase is triggered for a commissioning phase during which the communication network is configured or for an update phase during which at least the wireless node is reconfigured.

7. The method of claim 6 , wherein the update phase is triggered if the communication network performance is below a first threshold or is above a second threshold.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first telecommunication mode is of longer range than the second telecommunication mode.

9. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first telecommunication mode is one of the following communication technologies: GPRS, UMTS, CDMA2000, LTE.

10. The method of claim 1 , wherein the second telecommunication mode is based on IEEE 802.15.4, or on communication through powerline.

11. The method of claim 1 , wherein the communication network is a lighting network.

12. A communication device comprising:

a transceiver configured to communicate in a communication network, the transceiver configured to, in a configuration phase, obtain by means of a first telecommunication mode a selected role profile selected out of a set of role profiles, and, in an operation phase, communicate in the communication network using a second telecommunication mode,

the communication device further comprising a processor configured to, in an operation phase, behave in accordance with said selected role profile in the communication network, and, in the operation phase, disable or maintain the transceiver to communicate by means of the first telecommunication mode depending on the selected role profile, wherein said communication device is configured to disable said transceiver to communicate with said first telecommunication mode if said selected profile is an end device profile,

wherein said communication device is configured to configure or update said communication network during said configuration phase, with a network controller, by means of said first telecommunication mode based on said second telecommunication mode.

13. The luminaire comprising a communication device according to claim 12 , wherein the luminaire operation is controlled by commands received by the communication device.

14. A communication network, comprising at least one communication device of claim 12 .