Trends and Challenges In Lighting Application Today and Tomorrow

Speaker:Prof.Nurullah Haldun Demirdes

Time and Date: 15:00- , Apr. 10, 2015

Place: Room 301, Electrical Lighting Source Building, Handan Campus

 

 

Abstract

The world is going through a period of rapidly changing technological and social trends. From pure functional needs in lighting applications in the past, nowadays, emotional and social requirements lead us to new lighting solutions which are mainly based on LED light sources. LEDs have a number of properties that make them more flexible than conventional light sources, as to allow variations in the amount, distribution and spectrum of the light emitted. It is the potential of this flexibility to enhance human performance, comfort and safety.

In recent decades, information and communication technologies have become an increasingly important part of people’s lives and of society as a whole and generate huge opportunities for the creation of new intelligent, connected solutions that enable the lighting systems to be controlled and managed remotely and smartly both in indoor and outdoor. Today’s and future lighting application solutions, in addition to “prerequisite fundamental requirements” for achieving appropriate lighting quality, would be focused on personalization, interaction and connectivity. However, the absence of the “updated” quantitative metrics for evaluating those prerequisite fundamental requirements and therefore the lighting quality could be the general problem that would affect all attempts of extensively transforming the lighting application concepts of the past, for the future.

 

 

Biography

Dr. Haldun Demirdes graduated from the Technical University of Istanbul / Turkey as MSc. Electrical Engineer and continued for his Doctorate studies in the same University for 7 years as he also worked as the assistant professor on lighting. In 1981 he joined Philips Turkey as Lighting Design and Application department manager where he additionally took up the responsibilities of supervising the luminaire production activities, professional sales, product management and Turn-key Lighting Installation project management. In 2003, he was assigned as the manager of International Outdoor Lighting Design and Application center in Lyon/France. After managing and supervising Philips International Outdoor Lighting design , consultancy, training and application research activities for 9 years in France, he moved to Philips Research China / Lighting department in Shanghai as Principal Scientist/Lighting application expert and presently working there.