UC Davis researches intelligent light bulbs

January 22, 2010  |  Length: 00:02:17

What types of smart lights will power our homes and offices in the next five to ten years? At the California Lighting Institute at UC Davis, Professor Michael Siminovitch shows us a giant integrated sphere that acts as an advanced light meter. He also discusses an array of LED and fluorescent lighting technologies including, down lighting systems for residential use, and exterior LED lighting for garages and parking lots.

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RE: Intelligent lighting of the future from UC Davis
It sounded like he was about to say something meaningful. He almost got
started. C'mon, where's the beef? LED's? Variable color temps and dim-
ability? Yawn.
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9th Feb 2010
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RE: Intelligent lighting of the future from UC Davis
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>> My name is Michael Snynovich phonetic. I'm a professor here at UC Davis, and I'm Director of the California Lighting Technology Center.

Music Here at the center, we develop new technologies, we experiment with these technologies and we move them into the marketplace with the objective of energy savings and also increased lighting quality. We have an array of state-of-the-art laboratories we're actually measuring and characterizing the performance of light sources.

Music One of them is a large integrating sphere, and the sphere measures both the total light coming out of the light source, but also it's spectral power distribution. These are unique facilities here at UC Davis. Today, oen of the example technologies that we're working on are highly efficient down-lighting systems that deploy next-generation compact fluorescent and LED solutions. Another example of one of the technologies that we're working on is smart lights for exterior lighting applications, where we're using bi-level LED solutions and LED fluorescent systems so the lighting is dynamically tuned for users and for occupants, both increasing safety and security and also greatly enhancing the energy efficiency of exterior lighting. Looking down five to ten years in terms of lighting, what we're going to see is tremendous advances in what we call smart or intelligent lighting systems, and these are systems that we're gonna have in our homes, in our offices, that are responsive -- highly responsive -- to need. And light is going to vary in terms of both of its intensity and in terms of its spectral distribution to satisfy human desires. So I think we're gonna see a big jump forward in very, very responsive lighting systems.

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