Wireless Smart Lighting System - Saves Energy, Responds to Human Preferences
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| Audience/Grade: | College Freshman-Continuing Education |
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Design Electrical Engineering Green Design and Sustainable Engineering Industrial Design Industrial Engineering Mechanical Engineering |
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Reference - Article/Document |
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Audio |
| Author(s): |
Alice Agogino |
| Description: | Article in Energy Notes, Vol. 4, Issue 2, December 2006. Excerpt: "Your mother always told you: “Turn off the lights!” And it turns out, that was sound advice. Turning off the lights when they are not in use is one of the best ways to save energy – especially in an office building. These days, many people don’t even have to flip the switch to save energy. Automated lighting, which turns on when a person walks into a room and off when he or she leaves, is fairly common in many newer offices today. And opportunities to save even more energy with automated lighting are just around the corner. UC Berkeley researchers are exploring new combinations of commercial lighting systems controlled by “smart” wireless sensor technology that can customize a room’s lighting to meet a range of pre-established conditions, including the occupant’s personal preference. Mechanical Engineering Professor Alice Agogino is leading a multiyear project funded in part by the California Energy Commission’s Public Interest Energy Research (PIER) Program. Working with a team of students in her Berkeley Expert Systems Technology (BEST) laboratory, Agogino has developed and tested a proof-of-concept wireless sensing and communications product for dimmable commercial fluorescent lighting systems. The BEST lab (6102 Etcheverry Hall) is an artificial intelligence, expert systems and information technologies lab. “There are wonderful opportunities with intelligent microsensing,” Agogino says. “And not just with micro-sensing but also with calibrating and interpreting what the sensors are saying, and then making decisions about what to do with that information.” Her research is pursuing all of these opportunities." |
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| Keywords: | smart lighting energy efficiency wireless sensors sensor motes |
| Is Component of: |
BEST (Berkeley Energy and Sustainable Technologies) Lab |
| References: |
Life- Cycle Assessment of an Intelligent Lighting System Using a Distributed Wireless Sensor 'Mote' Network |
| Referenced By: |
E10 Mechanical Engineering Module: Human-Centered Sustainable Product Design |
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| Related ABET Criteria: |
(c) Design a system, component, or process (k) Use modern engineering tools in engineering practice |
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Excellent project for use in project-based learning classes. I have used in my E10 module on human-centered sustainable design. |
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| Place Name: | University of California at Berkeley BEST Lab Berkeley Expert Systems Technology Laboratory Berkeley Energy and Sustainable Technologies Laboratory |
| Place Type: | Business |
| Place Location: | 6102 Etcheverry Hall, Berkeley, California 94720 United States |
| West Longitude: | -122.259633 |
| East Longitude: | -122.258861 |
| North Latitude: | 37.876084 |
| South Latitude: | 37.875263 |
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| Publication Date: | July 2009 |
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WWW |
| Cost: |
Free |
| Download URL: | http://best.me.berkeley.edu/resources/Energy_Notes_December_2006. |
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IEEE LOM Record |
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