Using simple light sensors to achieve smart daylight harvesting

BuildSys'10 - Proceedings of the 2nd ACM Workshop on Embedded Sensing Systems for Energy-Efficiency in Buildings

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 73-78

  Lu, Jiakang ^a   Birru, Dagnachew ^b   Whitehouse, Kamin ^a  

^a University of Virginia   (United States)

^b PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Building energy; Lighting control; Wireless sensor networks

Indexed keywords

BUILDING ENERGY; COMMERCIAL BUILDING; DAYLIGHT HARVESTING; EMPIRICAL DATA; ENERGY CONSUMER; ENERGY SAVING; LIGHT SENSOR; LIGHTING CONTROL; PREDICTIVE FEEDBACK CONTROL; WIRELESS SENSOR;

EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; LIGHTING; OFFICE BUILDINGS; SENSOR NETWORKS;

WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 78650892288     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1878431.1878448     Document Type: Conference Paper

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