Evaluation and Improvement of Lighting Efficiency in Working Spaces

Lighting is an essential element for modern life, promoting a sense of wellbeing for users. However, bad illumination may produce health problems such as headaches and fatigue, among other vision problems. For that reason, this paper proposes the development of a smartphone-based application to help...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published in:Sustainability 2018-04, Vol.10 (4), p.1110
Main Authors: Castillo-Martinez, Ana, Medina-Merodio, Jose-Amelio, Gutierrez-Martinez, Jose-Maria, Aguado-Delgado, Juan, de-Pablos-Heredero, Carmen, Otón, Salvador
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Decision making
Efficiency
Energy consumption
Evaluation
Fatigue
Headache
Health problems
Illuminance
Illumination
Intelligent agents
Lighting
Smartphones
Sustainability
Working conditions
Citations: Items that this one cites
Items that cite this one
Online Access:Get full text
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Description
Summary:Lighting is an essential element for modern life, promoting a sense of wellbeing for users. However, bad illumination may produce health problems such as headaches and fatigue, among other vision problems. For that reason, this paper proposes the development of a smartphone-based application to help in lighting evaluation to guarantee the compliance of illumination regulations and to help increase illuminance efficiency, reducing its energy consumption. To perform this evaluation, the smartphone can be used as a lighting measurement tool, evaluating those measurements through an intelligent agent based in rules capable of guiding the decision-making process. As a result, this tool allows the evaluation of the real working environment to guarantee lighting requirements, helping in the prevention of health problems derived from bad illumination and improving the lighting efficiency at the same time.
ISSN:2071-1050
2071-1050
DOI:10.3390/su10041110