Lighting Installation Platform for Virtual 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 utilizes automated search engines, near-field illumination characterization, and machine learning to facilitate the design, acquisition, installation, and operation of lighting installations, enabling coordination of intelligent lighting fixtures and providing users with a visual representation of lighting spaces and objects to achieve desired collective lighting 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 copies (virtual models) of physical lighting fixtures that replicate their optical, electrical, and physical characteristics. These digital twins allow designers to evaluate lighting effects computationally without physical presence, maintaining measurement precision while eliminating travel and sample handling time.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces the mechanical process of physically transporting and evaluating lighting samples with computational simulations. Ray-tracing algorithms and rendering engines substitute for physical light interaction, enabling instantaneous evaluation of lighting effects on digital models of spaces.
2Adaptability or versatility
If the lighting market remains fragmented with multiple suppliers, then product variety is high, but information about lighting products is unavailable, limited, or inaccurate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a universal data exchange standard that enables diverse lighting products from multiple suppliers to be represented consistently in a single digital platform. The standardized data model accommodates various fixture types, technologies, and specifications while maintaining uniform access to accurate product information.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a standardized data interface as an intermediary between manufacturers and the design platform. This intermediary layer translates proprietary product data into a common format, ensuring accurate and complete information transfer while preserving product variety from different suppliers.
3Adaptability or versatility
If lighting fixtures are made intelligent with IoT connectivity, then they can be controlled remotely and communicate with other devices, but most installations do little to take advantage of this intelligence due to lack of designer expertise
Solution Approach 1:
The patent enables intelligent lighting fixtures to automatically provide their capabilities and characteristics through standardized digital interfaces. The system self-describes its IoT functions, control protocols, and integration requirements, eliminating the need for designers to deeply understand each fixture's intelligence and reducing expertise barriers.
4Measurement precision
If designers travel to sample closets to characterize lighting fixtures, then they can evaluate products in person, but comparisons between products are unscientific and designers are unaware of better-suited products
Solution Approach 1:
The patent performs preliminary computational characterization of lighting fixtures using their digital twins before physical evaluation. Designers can pre-assess product suitability through accurate simulations, eliminating unscientific comparisons and ensuring only appropriate products are considered, thereby improving both measurement precision and productivity.
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.