Lux Adjuster Controller for Solitary Ocular Comfort

Abstract

This paper presents a precise lighting controller which can concurrently adjust and display the real-time illuminance of a working platform for solitary ocular comfort. It gives the user the provision to select the right amount of lux for a particular task by knowing illumination as endorsed by IES, which is supposed to receive on the desired working plane or area. The above mentioned controller provides a high degree of certainty for delivering energy savings without compromising ocular comfort. Besides, it can be considered as one of the rationales for the Demand-Side Management lighting technique. This idea is accomplished by integrating a microcontroller prototyping platform with three separate modules namely the controlling module, sensing & displaying module, and power supply module. Appropriate codes for the microcontroller were written, compiled, and uploaded by verifying through simulation. Finally, hardware implementation was done successfully and energy-saving prospects were analyzed.