On-site monitoring and subjective comfort assessment of a sun shadings and electric lighting controller based on novel High Dynamic Range vision sensors

• Published in: Energy and buildings Vol. 149; pp. 58 - 72
• Main Authors: Motamed, Ali, Deschamps, Laurent, Scartezzini, Jean-Louis
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Lausanne Elsevier B.V 15.08.2017; Elsevier BV
• Subjects: Best practice; Building automation; Building control; Buildings; Comfort; Control systems; Discomfort; Dynamic range; Electric power demand; Electricity; Electricity consumption; Energy efficiency; Fuzzy control; Fuzzy logic; Fuzzy logic controller; Fuzzy systems; Glare; HDR vision sensor; Integrated control; Lighting; Monitoring; Office lighting; On-site monitoring; Reference systems; Sensors; Sun; Vision; Visual comfort and performance; Visual flight; HDR vision sensor; Energy-efficiency; Visual comfort and performance; Fuzzy logic controller; On-site monitoring; Building automation; Office lighting

Electric lighting is responsible of about one fifth of the electricity demand of buildings in Switzerland. Therein, integrated control of sun shadings and artificial lighting can mitigate the electricity demand while maintaining the user comfort and performance. However, the drawback of the existing...