Course No：3023135
Title：Intelligent Solid State Lighting Technology
Class Hours/Week: 4 Credit: 2 Category：Optional Specialty
Prerequisites：
None
Course objectives and basic requirements:
This course is designed to help students to:
1. Learn the principle and method of solid state lighting
2. Learn the basic theory of photo quantization of solid lighting system
3. Understand the principle and application of different lighting measurement equipment
4. Learn the methods of actual measurement and calculations
5. Assess the advantages and disadvantages of different lighting measurement equipment
6. Understand the traditional lighting quality theories
7. Master the assessment indicators and standards of LED lighting quality
8. Design psychophysical experiments of LED lighting quality assessment
9. Understand the principle and application of tunable lighting system
10. Understand the impact of lighting on human health
11. Understand the existing and wanted national and international standards
12. Understand the need-to-be-solved technical problems in the lighting fileds
13. Improve students’ English reading, writing and oral presentation skills
Course introduction:
The module is designed to understand the measurement and quality of solid state sources such as LED sources. The source has many advantages comparing with conventional sources such as energy saving, low carbon footprint, longer life and most importantly, adjustable spectral power distribution. The latter makes it adaptable to different environment. However, it has different physical properties such as small size and spatial arrangement. Hence, various conventional quality measures need to be improved for solid state sources, such as glare, color rendering, flicker, etc.
This module will be divided into 5 parts. Part 1 introduces the fundamental of light and color measurement, the background of lighting quality. This will be followed by Part 2 including the theory behind different technologies for measuring lighting and color together with a real practice. Part 3 will cover the psychophysical experiment designed to evaluate the quality of different lighting quality measures. Part 4 will cover various lighting quality metrics. Part 5 will introduce the impact of solid state lighting on wellbeing and their measuring methods. Part 6 introduces the intelligent lighting systems and its applications.
Test and Grading Criteria：
Paper + Oral report
Suggested textbooks or references:
1. P. Boyce. Human Factors in Lighting (3rd Edition). London: Taylor and Francis, 2003.
2. R.W.G. Hunt and M.R. Pointer. Measuring Colour (4th Edition). Chichester: John Wiley & Sons, 2011.