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Lighting control system

Laurent Deschamps, Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Ali Motamed

In a control unit (8) for a lighting control system, wherein the control unit (8) is configured to calculate output values based on input values and the output values include control commands for a lighting installation (4, 6, 7.1, 7.2), the input values i ...

2017

Effects of city size on the large-scale decentralised solar energy potential

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Nahid Mohajeri Pour Rayeni, Dan Assouline

To assess the PV-potential on rooftops for decentralized electricity supply in Switzerland, the potential is compared with the following urban-size parameters: (a) urban population, (b) number of buildings, (c) the cumulative building ground-floor area, an ...

Elsevier2017

3D Model for Solar Energy Potential on Buildings from Urban LiDAR Data

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Andreas Bill, Nahid Mohajeri Pour Rayeni

One of the most promising sustainable energy that can be considered in urban environment is solar energy. A 3D model for solar energy potential on building envelope based on urban LiDAR data was developed in this study. The developed algorithm can be used ...

The Eurographics Association 20162016

Visibility of Building Exposed Surfaces for the Potential Application of Solar Panels: A Photometric Model

Christian Roecker, Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Maria Cristina Munari Probst, Pietro Florio

Urban areas are facing a growing deployment of solar technologies on the built exposed surfaces such as roofs and façades. This transformation often occurs without consideration of the needed architectural quality, which depends on the context sensitivity ...

F. Biljecki and V. Tourre2016

Diurnal variations of hormonal secretion, alertness and cognition in extreme chronotypes under different lighting conditions

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Apiparn Borisuit, Mirjam Münch, Lenka Maierova

Circadian rhythms in physiology and behavior are modulated by external factors such as light or temperature. We studied whether self-selected office lighting during the habitual waking period had a different impact on alertness, cognitive performance and h ...

Nature Publishing Group2016

Outdoor human comfort and thermal stress: A comprehensive review on models and standards

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Jérôme Henri Kämpf, Silvia Coccolo

2016

Energy demand and urban microclimate of old and new residential districts in a hot arid climate

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Silvia Coccolo, Sameh Monna, Dasaraden Mauree

Different climates may need different design strategies for optimal thermal performance of buildings: the relationship between different texture of the cities (their form and morphology), the energy demand of buildings and the outdoor microclimate are esse ...

2016

How street canyon configuration control the accessibility of solar energy potential: Implication for urban design

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Jérôme Henri Kämpf, Govinda Upadhyay, Nahid Mohajeri Pour Rayeni, Dan Assouline

While the effects of street-canyon configuration on temperature, wind speed and direction, and air quality have received much attention, its impact on solar energy potential has not been much studied. This paper focuses on two aspects of the street-canyon ...

2016

Multi-scale modelling to assess human comfort in urban canyons

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Jérôme Henri Kämpf, Silvia Coccolo, Dasaraden Mauree

As the impact of climate change progresses, heat waves are expected to increase significantly in the future. Coupled with the urban heat island effect, this will tend to have a major impact on the comfort of the inhabitants in urban areas. It is thus cruci ...

vdf Hochschulverlag AG ETH Zurich2016

CFSpro: ray tracing for design and optimization of complex fenestration systems using mixed dimensionality approach

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Andreas Schueler, André Gabriel Kostro, Mario Geiger

Advanced optical ray tracing software, CFSpro, was developed for the study and optimization of complex fenestration systems (CFSs). Using an algorithm mixing 2D and 3D approaches, accurate computation of large numbers of rays in extruded geometries can be ...

Optical Soc Amer2016

Effects of light on sleep, emotions and immunological variables in demented patients

Jean-Louis Scartezzini

Wiley-Blackwell2016

Design optimization of electrical hubs using hybrid evolutionary algorithm

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Amarasinghage Tharindu Dasun Perera, Vahid Moussavi Nik, Dasaraden Mauree

Integration of non-dispatchable renewable energy sources such as wind and solar into the grid is challenging due to the stochastic nature of energy sources. Hence, electrical hubs (EH) and virtual power plants that combine non-dispatchable energy sources, ...

Amer Soc Mechanical Engineers2016

On the Impact of Integration of Non-Image Forming (NIF) Effect of Light on Electrical Lighting Control in Non-Residential Buildings

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Ali Motamed, Marta Benedetti

Lighting has an impact on the visual as well as cognitive performance of people in non-residential buildings. Light is the most powerful time cue for resetting the circadian pacemaker and ensuring correct synchronization of the internal clock with the envi ...

2016

Energy Demand Analysis for Building Envelope Optimization for Hot Climate: A Case Study at AN Najah National University

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Jérôme Henri Kämpf, Silvia Coccolo, Sameh Monna, Dasaraden Mauree

The study aims to analyse the heating and cooling demand of the An Najah university campus, and to optimize the building envelope for selected buildings, in order to achieve energy efficiency, and make use of renewable solar energy. Building and urban simu ...

2016

Optimum design and control of grid integrated electrical hubs considering lifecycle cost and emission

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Amarasinghage Tharindu Dasun Perera, Vahid Moussavi Nik, Dasaraden Mauree

Grid connected renewable energy systems are becoming popular due to reasons such as rapid escalation of energy prices, depletion of fossil fuel resources and pollutant emitted by conventional energy sources. Therefore, technologies for incorporating renewa ...

Ieee2016

On the impact of local climatic conditions on urban energy use: A case study

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Jérôme Henri Kämpf, Silvia Coccolo, Sameh Monna, Dasaraden Mauree

2016

Integration of outdoor human comfort in a building energy simulation database using CityGML Energy Ade

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Jérôme Henri Kämpf, Silvia Coccolo, Dasaraden Mauree

Handling data needed by Building Energy Simulation (BES) tools can be a tedious task, especially at the urban scale. Besides BES, users often have different needs (building energy use, human comfort, integration of renewables, urban planning…) in mind when ...

vdf Hochschulverlag AG ETH Zurich2016

Monitoring and rendering of visual and photo-biological properties of daylight-redirecting systems

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Jérôme Henri Kämpf, Anothai Thanachareonkit, Apiparn Borisuit, Mirjam Münch

We previously developed a Camera-Like Light Sensor (CLLS) to record images using a novel High Dynamic Range (HDR) imaging vision sensor. The device was equipped with customized filters for adapting the camera’s spectral sensitivity to both photopic and cir ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2016

Does roof shape matter? Solar photovoltaic (PV) integration on building roofs

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Bérénice Guiboud, Nahid Mohajeri Pour Rayeni, Dan Assouline

This paper focuses on roof-shape classification and solar potential for integrating photovoltaics (PV) on roofs. A machine-learning approach, Support Vector Machine (SVM), is used to classify the roof shapes in the city of Geneva. The impact of various roo ...

2016

Effects of urban compactness on solar energy potential

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Jérôme Henri Kämpf, Govinda Upadhyay, Nahid Mohajeri Pour Rayeni, Dan Assouline

Compactness is a major urban form parameter that affects the accessibility of solar energy in the built environment. Here we explore the relation between various compactness indicators and solar potential in the 16 neighbourhoods (11,418 buildings) constit ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2016

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