Lighting Design Platform With Digital Fixture Replicas
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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, near-field illumination characterization, and machine learning to facilitate the design, acquisition, installation, and operation of lighting installations, leveraging intelligent lighting fixtures through a visual representation of lighting spaces, aesthetic filters, and data structures that characterize illumination patterns.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If designers use physical samples and manual evaluation methods, then they can assess lighting products, 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 replicate their visual and illumination properties. These digital copies can be viewed and evaluated remotely without physical inspection, eliminating the need for designers to travel to sample closets while maintaining accurate assessment of lighting characteristics.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces manual physical evaluation processes with automated computer-based rendering and analysis systems. The system automatically generates photorealistic images and evaluates lighting properties through computational algorithms, substituting human manual inspection with machine-based assessment that is both faster and more precise.
2Adaptability or versatility
If the lighting market remains fragmented with multiple suppliers, then product variety is available, but information about lighting products is unavailable, limited, or inaccurate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a universal platform that aggregates lighting product information from multiple suppliers into a single centralized system. This platform serves multiple functions: product cataloging, photorealistic rendering generation, specification storage, and design integration, making it applicable across the entire fragmented lighting market while consolidating information access.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent combines scattered product information from numerous suppliers into a unified database. By merging data from different sources into a single centralized repository, the system eliminates information gaps and inaccuracies while preserving access to the diverse product variety available across the fragmented market.
3Measurement precision
If designers travel to sample closets to evaluate lighting fixtures, then they can assess product properties, but the process is time-consuming and limits access to lighting products
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates digital replicas of physical lighting fixtures that preserve all visual and illumination characteristics. These photorealistic renderings allow designers to evaluate lighting properties remotely with the same accuracy as physical inspection, eliminating travel time while maintaining assessment precision.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a digital intermediary (the rendering system) between the lighting product and the designer. This intermediary translates physical lighting properties into photorealistic digital representations that can be transmitted and viewed remotely, allowing accurate evaluation without physical presence or travel.
4Adaptability or versatility
If lighting fixtures are made intelligent with IoT connectivity, then they can be controlled remotely and communicate with other devices, but most lighting installations do little to take advantage of this intelligence due to lack of designer expertise
Solution Approach 1:
The patent performs intelligence configuration in advance during the design phase. The system automatically identifies suitable intelligent lighting fixtures and pre-configures their control parameters and connectivity settings based on the design requirements, so that when fixtures are installed, they are ready to operate intelligently without requiring complex post-installation configuration by designers lacking expertise.
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.