Lighting Design Platform for Digital Fixture Evaluation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current lighting design workflows are inefficient due to a fragmented market with limited and inaccurate information about lighting products, leading to suboptimal results and underutilization of intelligent lighting features in installations.
Innovation Solution
A platform that uses automated search engines, data structures, and machine learning to coordinate the design, acquisition, installation, and operation of lighting installations, including near-field illumination characterization and pattern matching systems, to facilitate the selection and control of lighting fixtures based on desired effects.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If designers use physical samples to evaluate lighting fixtures, then they can directly observe lighting effects, but the process takes days or weeks and produces suboptimal results
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates digital replicas (photorealistic renderings) of lighting fixtures that accurately replicate their visual and lighting characteristics. These digital copies can be viewed instantly without physical samples, eliminating the time required to transport and evaluate physical fixtures while maintaining evaluation accuracy through high-fidelity digital representation
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary lighting design and evaluation using digital models before any physical installation or sample delivery. Designers can visualize and assess lighting effects in advance, making informed decisions about fixture selection without waiting for physical samples to arrive and be installed
2Loss of information
If designers travel to sample closets to characterize lighting fixtures, then they can evaluate product properties firsthand, but comparisons between products are unscientific and designers are unaware of better-suited products
Solution Approach 1:
The platform serves multiple functions: it acts as a product catalog, design tool, specification database, and comparison system all in one. Designers can access comprehensive product information, perform photorealistic visualizations, and conduct scientific comparisons within a single digital environment, eliminating the need to visit multiple sample closets
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces the mechanical process of physically traveling to sample closets and manually comparing fixtures with an automated digital system. The platform uses algorithms to retrieve, display, and compare lighting fixture data, eliminating the need for physical travel and manual evaluation while providing more comprehensive and accurate product information
3Adaptability or versatility
If lighting installations use intelligent features, then they can satisfy a wide variety of requirements, but most installations do little to take advantage of this increased intelligence due to market fragmentation and lack of designer expertise
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a digital platform as an intermediary between intelligent lighting fixtures and designers. This platform translates complex fixture capabilities and specifications into accessible visual and data formats, bridging the gap between sophisticated lighting technology and designer understanding, thereby enabling better utilization of intelligent features without requiring designers to become experts in the underlying complexity
Data Source
AI summary
A platform for design of a lighting installation generally includes an automated search engine for retrieving and storing a plurality of lighting objects in a lighting object library and a lighting design environment providing a visual representation of a lighting space containing lighting space objects and lighting objects. The visual representation is based on properties of the lighting space objects and lighting objects obtained from the lighting object library. A plurality of aesthetic filters is configured to permit a designer in a design environment to adjust parameters of the plurality of lighting objects handled in the design environment to provide a desired collective lighting effect using the plurality of lighting objects.