Glare is caused by both direct and indirect light sources and discomfort glare produces visual discomfort, annoyance, or loss in visual performance and visibility. Direct glare is caused by light sources in the field of view whereas reflected glare is caused by bright reflections from polished or glossy surfaces that are reflected toward an individual. To improve visual comfort of our living environment, a portable inspection system to estimate direct glare of various commercial LED modules with the range of color temperature from 3100 K to 5300 K was developed in this study. The system utilized HDR images to obtain the illumination distribution of LED modules and was first calibrated for brightness and chromaticity and corrected with flat field, dark-corner and curvature by the installed algorithm. The index of direct glare was then automatically estimated after image capturing, and the operator can recognize the performance of LED modules and the possible effects on human being once the index was out of expecting range. In the future, we expect that the quick-response smart inspection system can be applied in several new fields and market, such as home energy diagnostics, environmental lighting and UGR monitoring and popularize it in several new fields.
This paper presents the illumination uniformity study on the reading area for a well-designed reflective LED lighting module by placing diffuser plate with optical simulation technique. The investigation for the performance of intensity and uniformity was performed and discussed by changing various curvatures of diffuser plate with and without microstructures to reflect and spread light. Due to the development of microstructures on diffuser plate, the light intensity distribution was uniformed on the reading area. In addition, the diffusion and spreading effect from a curved surface with microstructures was better than that without curvature or microstructures. The illumination uniformity was strongly influenced by the shape of microstructure on reflective diffuser plate. The optimal design with cylinder-shape microstructure on the lampshade had better performance in this study; the illumination uniformity was increased from 17 % to 69 % and the enhancement was 75 %. A well-designed diffuser plate model was fabricated by CNC machine and the deviations between experimental and simulated illumination results for maximum intensity and uniformity were 7.4 % and 8.7 %, respectively.
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