An Intelligent Lighting System with a Seat Management Mechanism

We have been researching and development of an Intelligent Lighting System to provide desired illminance to a desire place. We have implemented the Intelligent Lighting System in actual office spaces for verifying its utility. The Intelligent Lighting System judge that illuminance is unnecessary in the place, when the worker has left his seat. In the Intelligent lighting Systems we have implemented in actual offices, every worker ask to change their seating status through a user interface on the web. However, the seating information was not properly managed, the workers who are away from the office are often regarded as seated, resulting in excessive and unnecessary consumption of electricity for lighting. Therefore we use a seating sensor that can judge to automatically detect worker's seating statuses of a person by sensing the pressure. In this research, an Intelligent Lighting System with a seat management mechanism to automatically detect worker's seating statuses was built using a seating sensor. Verification testing was implemented in actual offices, to determine how much savings can be achieved in the consumption of electricity for lighting.