Daylight Harvesting Lighting Solutions

Aug. 11, 2011 - PRLog -- In a broad sense, Daylight Harvesting is an innovative energy saving dimming techniques which utilises the use of natural light to automatically dim artificial light to appropriate light levels.

As an energy saving technique Daylight Harvesting greatly reduces the overall energy costs of your buildings resources and provides you with a consistent source of light throughout the day.

A well designed, integrated Daylight Harvesting system can guarantee a preset, comfortable light source at your home / workplaces at all times. With Daylight Harvesting, artificial light levels only begin to dim when the natural light exceeds the preset light level entering into the room.

With a greater consensus from businesses and building owners to optimise their energy resources and reduce their energy costs, Daylight Harvesting is increasingly becoming a hallmark lighting control system around the world. For both new building developments and for refurbished buildings, the incorporation of Daylight Harvesting techniques allows building to reduce their overall peak demand of energy.

High Peak Demands of Energy
 
High peak demands in the energy curve persist as a major problem in the lighting control and energy management fields. In general, the highest energy saving with Daylight Harvesting coincides with the peak air condition cooling hours of the day. Consequently, Daylight Harvesting can allow a building to balance their energy use between lighting and heating control, to optimise its efficiency and reduce overall building costs. In both domestic and industrial buildings, Daylight Harvesting can greatly reduce and push down the peak demand for energy.

Main Benefits of Daylight Harvesting Lighting Control

•   Maximum energy savings and optimise building resources
•   Highest possible lighting comfort (correct and consistent lighting levels everywhere)
•   Simple to install system: No external wiring, no adjustments on site.

With the implementation of a photo sensor / LUX sensor, you can measure the levels of light in a room to dim or brighten a room depending upon the settings / adjustments of the sensor.

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Traditional Lighting Control Solutions

Traditionally, Daylight Harvesting techniques have either been perceived to be too complicated, too unreliable and generally quite an expensive process. Effectively, setting up a Daylight Harvesting system requires precision, planning and the installation of system can be quite a time consuming and expensive task to carry out. Commissioning, re-fitting and diagnostics and servicing of Daylight Harvesting typically used to be quite a time consuming activity as well and showed quite instable control behaviour.

Technological Advances

However, thanks to the tremendous advances in modern technology and wireless controls, a Daylight Harvesting lighting system can be setup with minimal amount of wiring and with complete precision and accuracy

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While dimming lighting systems are generally considered to more expensive to set up than a simply on-off lighting system. However, the potential long term benefits can save your company tremendous amounts of energy and money. A well calibrated Daylight Harvesting system can allow your building to control light levels without the occupants of said space noticing the light changes as the lights progressively alters to maintain a consistent level of light. Daylight Harvesting techniques in comparison to on-off devices or step switching devices provide a much more consistent and optimal form of lighting control by consistently balancing the output levels to ensure a well maintained ambient light source.

If you would like to know more about Lighting Control systems, Daylight Harvesting or if you have an application or building that you wish to have developed, feel free to contact us on 0345 00 00 400.

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