(POSTER) Wireless Multi-Sensor Hardware Platform to Enhance Smart Lighting Solutions

Smart lighting solutions bring benefits in terms of energy usage and users’ well-being. However, their use is not widespread due to high installation and maintenance costs. The current manual commissioning procedure is one of the main human and time-consuming tasks, so its automation is expected to reduce the overall installation cost. Considering this, we propose the Lite4More device, a Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) based sensor platform that supports the commissioning procedure and is backwards compatible with Digital Addressable Lighting Interface (DALI) devices. The Lite4More device produces sensor data that can feed algorithms to automate the commissioning of lighting infrastructures, namely luminaire localisation and groups and scene creation. The hardware platform was validated in both lab and real office environments. The preliminary results show that Lite4More device sensors are suitable for feeding luminaire localisation and group creation algorithms, and the considered communication technology is viable for smart lighting solutions.