Smart Lighting Control Architecture and Benefits

The paper discusses results of a pilot project aimed at providing dynamic control for 4,000 LED luminaires in Krakow, Poland. The main research goal is to provide a flexible and highly scalable system architecture. Thus, the work regards both theoretical model improvements, comparative technology research, and architectural flexibility assessment based on available third-party systems that must be interacted with. The structure of the system is presented in detail, along with relation to previously-published theoretical work, technologies used and important implementation details. The underlying theoretical concepts, based on the dual graph grammars, are also presented. A critical discussion presents the benefits of the proposed solution in the light of various practical problems encountered during implementation of the pilot project.