Lighting Design Platform With Digital Fixture Library and Aesthetic Filters
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current lighting design workflows are inefficient due to market fragmentation, lack of accurate product information, and underutilization of intelligent lighting features, leading to suboptimal lighting installations and missed opportunities for enhancing emotional and aesthetic experiences.
Innovation Solution
A platform that integrates automated search engines, near-field illumination characterization, and machine learning to facilitate the design, acquisition, installation, and operation of lighting installations, utilizing a library of lighting objects and objects with advanced control capabilities to provide a desired collective lighting effect.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If designers use physical samples to evaluate lighting fixtures, then they can assess product properties firsthand, but the design process becomes time-consuming and inefficient
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a digital twin or virtual representation of physical lighting fixtures, capturing their photometric properties, spatial distribution, and visual characteristics. This digital model allows designers to evaluate lighting products remotely and efficiently without needing physical samples, thereby reducing design time while maintaining assessment accuracy through comprehensive digital documentation.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary characterization of lighting fixtures by capturing their photometric data, spatial properties, and visual attributes before the design process begins. This pre-characterization creates a ready-to-use digital library that enables rapid evaluation and comparison of lighting products during design phases, eliminating the need for time-consuming physical sample assessments.
2Adaptability or versatility
If the lighting market remains highly fragmented with multiple suppliers, then product variety increases, but information availability and design efficiency decrease
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges data from multiple lighting fixture suppliers and product lines into a unified digital library platform. This consolidation organizes diverse product information using standardized schemas, making comprehensive data from various manufacturers accessible through a single interface. The system maintains product variety while improving information availability through centralized digital documentation.
Solution Approach 2:
The digital library platform serves multiple functions: it stores photometric data, visual characteristics, spatial properties, and technical specifications for diverse lighting products from various suppliers. This universal system handles different product types and data formats through standardized interfaces, enabling efficient access to comprehensive product information across the fragmented lighting market.
3Measurement precision
If designers travel to sample closets to characterize fixtures, then they obtain accurate product properties, but the process becomes inefficient and suboptimal results are produced
Solution Approach 1:
The system creates comprehensive digital copies of physical lighting fixtures that capture all essential characterization data including photometric properties, spatial light distribution, color characteristics, and visual appearance. These digital twins enable remote evaluation with the same accuracy as physical inspection, eliminating the need for designers to travel to sample closets while maintaining characterization precision.
Solution Approach 2:
The digital library platform acts as an intermediary between physical lighting products and designers. It mediates the information transfer by capturing and storing comprehensive product characteristics in digital form, allowing designers to access accurate fixture data remotely through the platform without needing physical access to sample closets, thereby maintaining accuracy while improving productivity.
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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.