Harvesting Daylight to Minimize Lighting Energy Consumption with Existing Infrastructure

Project Coordinators: Jonathan Thompson,  Kimberly Madero-Craven 

Project Sponsor: Dr. Radu Cascaval, Associate Professor

Responsible Department: Mathematics

Total GAF Funding: $2,100.00

Themes: Energy

Goal:  To demonstrate the feasibility, performance, scalability, energy reduction, cost savings, and return-on-investment (ROI) of daylight harvesting systems at UCCS. 

Impact:  The nonlinear relation between the dim level of LED luminaires and the energy that they consume provides for energy savings (and therefore a corresponding reduction in building operating costs) by dynamically adjusting light levels in response to ambient daylight.