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Late Night Illumination Control

This document discusses integrating lighting control into building automation systems using a centralized wireless network. Traditionally, HVAC and lighting are controlled separately, increasing costs. The proposed system aims to provide a single control point for monitoring and operating all building services like lighting to reduce costs over the lifetime of the building. It focuses on integrating Digital Addressable Lighting Interface devices into an IEEE 802.15.4 wireless sensor network for centralized lighting management and control. This would allow preventative maintenance and energy efficient operation of street lights through monitoring and automation.

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Late Night Illumination Control

This document discusses integrating lighting control into building automation systems using a centralized wireless network. Traditionally, HVAC and lighting are controlled separately, increasing costs. The proposed system aims to provide a single control point for monitoring and operating all building services like lighting to reduce costs over the lifetime of the building. It focuses on integrating Digital Addressable Lighting Interface devices into an IEEE 802.15.4 wireless sensor network for centralized lighting management and control. This would allow preventative maintenance and energy efficient operation of street lights through monitoring and automation.

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Energy Efficient Illumination Management for Street lights with

late night control system

A building automation (BA) system (BAS) deals with monitoring and control of building
services, such as heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC), lighting, alarms, etc. Not
only is it the system bound to operate in HVAC appliances and lamps, but HVAC and lighting
control can also be obtained by more natural and efficient ways, e.g. starting a motor to open
blinds. BAS were initially developed to control HVAC systems. Through time we have gone
through several kinds of controllers, e.g. pneumatics, analog circuits, microprocessors, etc. At
the time of its beginning, BA’s purpose was the comfort of end consumers and afterwards ,
energy efficiency criteria were also considered . Even though other home systems like lighting
should also use automation, they are usually installed in a different system than HVAC. This
division of the two subsystems increases the end consumer cost due to additional investment in
communication hardware and software for integrating HVAC and lighting in a single control
point.

As it was previously stated, building services are usually controlled separately, making BA the
set of control and communication technologies which link those different subsystems and make
them work from a centralized monitoring and control center. The main purpose of having a
single control point which provides access to all building services is the costs reduction. A
remote monitoring allows the quick detection of failing devices without needing long searches
and wasting personal time. This continuous monitoring enables a preventive, or predictive as
well, maintenance, which results in a reduction of operational and maintenance costs. Since it is
estimated that the operational cost of a building is about seven times the initial investment,
taking into consideration the global life-cycle an additional initial cost is worth the effort.

This paper focuses on the integration of Digital Addressable Lighting Interface (DALI) devices
in wireless sensor networks. Since different manufacturers usually deal with one aspect of
building automation - e.g. heating ventilation and air conditioning, lighting control, different
kinds of alarms, etc. - final building automation system has different subsystems which are
finally taken to an integrated building management system. The cost of this process is
consequently increased due to additional hardware investment. Our main purpose is to provide
the end consumer with an economical fully centralized system in which home appliances are
managed by an IEEE 802.15.4-based wireless sensor network. Not only is it necessary to focus
on the initial investment, but maintenance and energy consumption costs must also be
considered. This paper explains the developed system along with a brief introduction to usual
building automation protocols. Finally it presents future work in this field.
Block Diagram:

MAINS

PIR Sensor
Relay Driver Relay

MCU

RTC

MOSSFET Driver MOSFET

Communication
Port

Light
Load

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