2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
LED Lighting System for Efficient Power Saving by Automatic and Collaborative Dimming with Visible Light Communication Network
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24656194
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Research Field |
Power engineering/Power conversion/Electric machinery
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| Research Institution | Tokyo National College of Technology (2013-2014)
Okinawa National College of Technology (2012) |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha) |
KOSAKA Toshifumi 東京工業高等専門学校, 情報工学科, 教授 (60153524)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
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| Keywords | 可視光通信 / 照明 / 省電力 / みえる化 / クラウド / 調光 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
Japan faced huge power shortage problems and was forced to execute scheduled blackouts because of Tohoku Earthquake that happened on March 11, 2011. It raised people’s motivations to save the electric power. The power saving problem has been recognized as one of the most important initiatives since days.
In this study, we developed a lighting system that can automatically dim the lights according to the brightness of the surrounding area in order to achieve an efficient power saving. All LED light bulbs can autonomously transmit and receive the brightness data through a network based on visible light communications(VLC). We developed an application on Web browser and can watch the previous saving records and the current power saving situation in each room. On the other hand, we can control the brightness of the lamps in each room from a remote place by sending a command to the cloud server. In addition, the pinpoint dimming is realized by VLC between a LED lamp and a smart phone.
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| Free Research Field |
組込みシステム開発
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