Publications related to Intelligent lighting

Theory and application of a data-driven approach to compressive spectrometry in the assessment of neurophotic stimulation

Recent advances in biology and neuroscience have elucidated pathways in which visible light initiates a signaling process, via the eye, responsible for activating direct and indirect biological responses. While the full impact of unnatural light patterns o ...

EPFL2022

Separation and Recycling Potential of Rare Earth Elements from Energy Systems: Feed and Economic Viability Review

Christian Ludwig, Rudolf Paul Wilhelm Jozef Struis, Ajay Bhagwan Patil, Viktoria Paetzel

This review explores the potential of separating and recycling rare earth elements (REEs) from different energy conversion systems, such as wind turbines, electric vehicles batteries, or lighting devices. The REEs include 17 elements (with global productio ...

2022

High-Efficiency Deep-Red Light-Emitting Electrochemical Cell Based on a Trinuclear Ruthenium(II)-Silver(I) Complex

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin

Turn-on time is a key factor for lighting devices to be of practical application. To decrease the turn-on time value of a deep-red light-emitting electrochemical cells (DR-LECs), two novel approaches based on molecularly engineered ruthenium phenanthroimid ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2021

The Impact of Light Distribution and Furniture Layout on Meeting Light Exposure Objectives in an Office – A Simulation Case Study

Marilyne Andersen, Steffen Lutz Hartmeyer, Megan Nicole Danell, Siobhan Francois Rockcastle

The present simulation case study compares the impact of electric lighting distributions in relation to work-desk location and orientation on work-plane and eye-level illumination within a small private office. The aim of this study is to better understand ...

2021

Assessment of Commercial Building Lighting as a Frequency Regulation Resource

Alexandra Cameron Karpilow

This paper evaluates the potential for automated lighting control as a resource for frequency regulation of the electric grid system in the context of current energy policies, economic incentives, and technological trends. The growing prevalence of renewab ...

2020

A smart luminaire in an office environment: impact on light distribution, user interactions and comfort

Jérôme Henri Kämpf

A smart luminaire able to change the direction of its light beam is installed in an office environment and compared to the available LEDs fixtures. Standard lighting measures are performed and a controlled user experiment is conducted, involving 22 subject ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2019

Impact of dynamic lighting control on light exposure, visual comfort and alertness in office users

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Mirjam Münch, Ali Motamed, Marta Benedetti, Lenka Maierova

The lighting environment at indoor workplaces is important not only to provide vision and visual comfort, but also for light's direct influence on human physiology, cognitive performance and mood. The purpose of this ongoing study is to investigate the imp ...

IOP Science2019

Calibration and Validation of Climate-Based Daylighting Models Based on One-Time Field Measurements: Office Buildings in the Tropics

Geraldine Cai Ting Quek

Calibrated climate-based lighting simulation models of buildings have the capacity to perform an essential role in postoccupancy evaluations, such as annual frequency assessments of daylighting quality and visual discomfort. However, in most postoccupancy ...

2021

Neural BTF Compression and Interpolation

Wenzel Alban Jakob

The Bidirectional Texture Function (BTF) is a data-driven solution to render materials with complex appearance. A typical capture contains tens of thousands of images of a material sample under varying viewing and lighting conditions. While capable of fait ...

WILEY2019

Lighting control system

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Laurent Deschamps, Ali Motamed

In a control unit (8) for a lighting control system, wherein the control unit (8) is configured to calculate output values based on input values and the output values include control commands for a lighting installation (4, 6, 7.1, 7.2), the input values i ...

2018

Towards Human-Centric Lighting for Office Buildings: Pilot Study on the Interactions of Visual, Perceptual and Non-Visual Effects of Workplace (Day) Lighting

Marilyne Andersen, Victoria Eugenia Soto Magán

Although knowledge about the impact of light on individuals beyond vision is becoming substantial and less and less controversial, there is still a gap on how to properly address what type of lighting quality one should seek in an indoor space. What consti ...

KARGER2017

Lighting control system

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Laurent Deschamps, Ali Motamed

In a control unit (8) for a lighting control system, wherein the control unit (8) is configured to calculate output values based on input values and the output values include control commands for a lighting installation (4, 6, 7.1, 7.2), the input values i ...

2017

Bright Light Delights: Effects of Daily Light Exposure on Emotions, Rest-activity Cycles, Sleep and Melatonin Secretion in Severely Demented Patients

Jean-Louis Scartezzini

Objective: We tested whether the effects of a dynamic lighting system are superior to conventional lighting on emotions, agitation behaviour, quality of life, melatonin secretion and circadian restactivity cycles in severely demented patients. As a compari ...

Bentham Science Publ Ltd2017

On the Impact of Integration of Non-Image Forming (NIF) Effect of Light on Electrical Lighting Control in Non-Residential Buildings

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Ali Motamed, Marta Benedetti

Lighting has an impact on the visual as well as cognitive performance of people in non-residential buildings. Light is the most powerful time cue for resetting the circadian pacemaker and ensuring correct synchronization of the internal clock with the envi ...

2016

Diurnal variations of hormonal secretion, alertness and cognition in extreme chronotypes under different lighting conditions

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Apiparn Borisuit, Mirjam Münch, Lenka Maierova

Circadian rhythms in physiology and behavior are modulated by external factors such as light or temperature. We studied whether self-selected office lighting during the habitual waking period had a different impact on alertness, cognitive performance and h ...

Nature Publishing Group2016

Excitonic Diffusion in InGaN/GaN Core–Shell Nanowires

Hua Zhang, Jean-Daniel Ganière, Gwénolé Jean Jacopin, Mehran Shahmohammadi

We report on the direct observation of the diffusion of carriers in graded InGaN/GaN quantum wells in a nanowire. By probing the local dynamics at the nanoscale, along the wire for different temperatures between 4 and 250 K, we conclude that this diffusion ...

American Chemical Society (ACS)2016

Toward an Integrated Platform for Energy Efficient Lighting Control of Non-Residential Buildings

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Laurent Deschamps, Ali Motamed

Net energy import of Switzerland corresponds to about 13 BCHF (petroleum, uranium, etc.) each year. According to the energy perspective 2035 defined by Swiss Federal Office Energy, the energy import should be reduced to 7.3 BCHF. Meeting the goals defined ...

vdf Hochschulverlag AG ETH Zurich2016

Light-driven model for identifying indicators of non-visual health potential in the built environment

María Lovísa Ámundadóttir

This thesis introduces a new approach to characterize and evaluate ocular light exposure based on the discovery of novel blue light-sensitive photoreceptors in the human eye. These photoreceptors are the primary mediators of 'non-visual' responses impactin ...

EPFL2016

Effects of realistic office daylighting and electric lighting conditions on visual comfort, alertness and mood

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Friedrich Linhart, Apiparn Borisuit

Lighting conditions in workplaces contribute to a variety of factors related to work satisfaction, productivity and well-being. We tested whether different photometric variables also influence visual perception and the comfort of the lighting, as well as s ...

Sage Publications Ltd2015

Development of a Localization System Based on VLC Technique for an Indoor Environment

Kwang Moo Yi

In this paper, we develop an indoor localization device which embeds localization information into indoor light-emitting-diodes (LED) lighting systems. The key idea of our device is the use of the newly proposed "bit stuffing method". Through the use of st ...

Korean Inst Electr Eng2015