Mojtaba Masoudinejad, Jan Emmerich, Dominik Kossmann, Andreas Riesner, Moritz Roidl and Michael ten Hompel
Sustainable Cities and Society, 25, pages 74-81, 2016.
This paper presents a platform specially designed for high-accuracy measurement of indoor artificial lighting and environmental information for the evaluation of indoor photovoltaic energy harvesting when used in environments with ultra-low harvesting potentials with less than 1W/m2 irradiance. Components required for such platform capable of replicating and measuring different indoor environment effects are proposed. In addition to an automated plan for measurement, signaling outline, data acquisition and storage are presented. Distance alteration (50â150cm), dimming (1â100%), filtering and manipulation of incident angle (0â180°) are analyzed as light intensity modification methods, with the effect of each one on the light spectrum. Finally, some measurement results are given proceeded in the built platform.