Loucetios™ is a state-of-the-art, self-configuring lighting control system solution for bedrooms, offices and perimeter areas. Under automatic operation, the system senses luminosity inside and outside a room, controls the angle of the blinds and dims the lamps to maintain a prescribed level of illumination inside the room. The system also provides the user with 4 pre-programmed ambience settings that can set the tone of the room with just a button press. Loucetios™ is an environmentally friendly system that saves energy by keeping unoccupied rooms unlit and maximizing the use of available natural light. In the long-run, Loucetios™ provides control solutions that reduce energy costs and extend lamp life.
Loucetios is a smart system that saves energy by controlling the illumination of a space. By operating on a feedback loop where the system senses light and the presence of people, the system makes smart decisions on how to best illuminate the space given the user's preference. Given that the system already has control over the lighting and the shading of the space, ambiences can be saved and recalled with ease. Loucetios is very expandable and versatile. There are areas in which it can become a better product, which are further discussed later in this section. The heart of the system is an Atmel, MEGA32 8-bit microcontroller. The sensors on the system are made from easily obtained components and the control algorithms are extensive and robust. In the future, the work done for this system can be used as a basis for another project, making improvements on the areas in which this project could be better. Student projects such as the Solar Decathlon could make use of principles explored in this project to implement environmentally-friendly systems.
Loucetios™ is a simplified version of systems and equipments sold for thousands of dollars in the high-income housing segment as well as high-visibility public buildings. With improvements, Loucetios™ could also be used in architecture projects to enhance prototypes and models of buildings.
As recommendations for improvement of the system, we believe two main areas stand out, Power and Dimming.
Firstly, the system unfortunately requires more energy than we'd prefer; improving on reducing the energy requirements of the system is a priority. Eliminating the use of two external sources of power is very important for a more marketable product.
As for the dimming; as explained in the dimmer section we ran into adverse conditions when dealing with AC power. Implementing an electronically controlled dimmer would reduce the power requirements discussed above by eliminating a motor; enable the use of AC power to operate the system and render the prototype simpler as only one power source.
Link: http://instruct1.cit.cornell.edu/courses/e...emo29/index.htm
Loucetios is a smart system that saves energy by controlling the illumination of a space. By operating on a feedback loop where the system senses light and the presence of people, the system makes smart decisions on how to best illuminate the space given the user's preference. Given that the system already has control over the lighting and the shading of the space, ambiences can be saved and recalled with ease. Loucetios is very expandable and versatile. There are areas in which it can become a better product, which are further discussed later in this section. The heart of the system is an Atmel, MEGA32 8-bit microcontroller. The sensors on the system are made from easily obtained components and the control algorithms are extensive and robust. In the future, the work done for this system can be used as a basis for another project, making improvements on the areas in which this project could be better. Student projects such as the Solar Decathlon could make use of principles explored in this project to implement environmentally-friendly systems.
Loucetios™ is a simplified version of systems and equipments sold for thousands of dollars in the high-income housing segment as well as high-visibility public buildings. With improvements, Loucetios™ could also be used in architecture projects to enhance prototypes and models of buildings.
As recommendations for improvement of the system, we believe two main areas stand out, Power and Dimming.
Firstly, the system unfortunately requires more energy than we'd prefer; improving on reducing the energy requirements of the system is a priority. Eliminating the use of two external sources of power is very important for a more marketable product.
As for the dimming; as explained in the dimmer section we ran into adverse conditions when dealing with AC power. Implementing an electronically controlled dimmer would reduce the power requirements discussed above by eliminating a motor; enable the use of AC power to operate the system and render the prototype simpler as only one power source.
Link: http://instruct1.cit.cornell.edu/courses/e...emo29/index.htm