Investigation into the Lighting Control Technology for a Large-scale Lighting Infrastructure

This project will investigate a lighting control technology for controlling the electrical power supplying to a plurality of lamps driven by different types of ballasts such as conventional electromagnetic or electronic ballast. With this new technology, existing non-dimmable lighting infrastructure can be immediately converted into a dimmable one with real energy saving. No major change of the lighting network is needed. Of particular importance, the technology will maintain the principle of providing “environmentally clean” power conversion that will not introduce harmonic pollution problem into the power system. The developed system can communicate with an existing web-based platform.