A Novel Design of an Automatic Lighting Control System for a Wireless Sensor Network with Increased Sensor Lifetime and Reduced Sensor Numbers

Sensors

Reza Mohamaddoust¹  Abolfazl Toroghi Haghighat¹  Mohamad Javad Motahari Sharif² 

[1] Faculty of Electrical, Computer & IT Engineering, Qazvin Azad University, Daneshgah Street, Qazvin 1416-34185, Iran; E-Mail:;Faculty of Computer Engineering & IT, Sadjad Institute of Higher Education, Mashhad 91375-4664, Iran; E-Mail:

关键词: lighting control system;    wireless sensor networks;    energy conservation;   

DOI  :  10.3390/s110908933

来源: mdpi

【 摘 要 】

Wireless sensor networks (WSN) are currently being applied to energy conservation applications such as light control. We propose a design for such a system called a Lighting Automatic Control System (LACS). The LACS system contains a centralized or distributed architecture determined by application requirements and space usage. The system optimizes the calculations and communications for lighting intensity, incorporates user illumination requirements according to their activities and performs adjustments based on external lighting effects in external sensor and external sensor-less architectures. Methods are proposed for reducing the number of sensors required and increasing the lifetime of those used, for considerably reduced energy consumption. Additionally we suggest methods for improving uniformity of illuminance distribution on a workplane’s surface, which improves user satisfaction. Finally simulation results are presented to verify the effectiveness of our design.

【 授权许可】

CC BY   
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