A Touch-Dim Network for the Dimming Control of Lighting System

Author

Juang, Jyh-Ching ; Wang, Hung-Chi ; Lu, Chun-Lin ; Chen, Wen-Ming ; Ching-Wen Hsu

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Nat. Cheng Kung Univ., Tainan, Taiwan

fYear

2010

fDate

26-28 Sept. 2010

Firstpage

183

Lastpage

186

Abstract

DALI is a popular interface of lighting network system with an excellent dimming facility, but it is too complicated when it is applied in family house. Touch-Dim installation of DALI ballast is then developed. The installation and operation are much simplified but the network function is no more valid. This paper proposed an alternative network structure, which is named as “Touch-Dim network”, to offer an operation as simple as Touch-Dim but the network function is valid again. The system architecture and the hardware design are described in the paper. An internet u-Lighting system with three switches and three fluorescent lights is also implemented in this work to demonstrate the proposed Touch-Dim network.

Keywords

Internet; control engineering computing; lighting control; user interfaces; DALI ballast; Internet u-lighting system; dimming control; family house; fluorescent lights; lighting system; touch dim network; Driver circuits; Electronic ballasts; Internet; Lighting; Lighting control; Protocols; DALI; Touch-Dim; lighting; network;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computational Aspects of Social Networks (CASoN), 2010 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Taiyuan

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-8785-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CASoN.2010.48

Filename

5636835