Home Lighting: A Challenge to Improve and Standardise

Abstract

Investigation presented in the paper aims to map the current situation in home lighting in order to acquire an imagination on preferences and solutions applied by end users – inhabitants, by means of available technologies and taking into account the inheritage of existing systems as well as habits of mind. Besides qualitative findings, quantitative assessment of lighting performance and estimation of energy performance is in the focus of investigation as well. Assumption of the investigation relies on the fact that what is installed in homes for lighting, selected, arranged and installed by the user, is felt by the user as illumination satisfying his needs in all aspects (aesthetic function, lighting control etc.). Questionaire is selected as the method of investigation. To achieve the needed level of reliability of data and because measurements of the illuminance are needed, the questionaire is to be completed by a professional investigator. The questionaire-based investigation is expected to provide a vast of useful information on home lighting. The paper is aimed to present the method which can be applied worldwide and to publish the results of analyses performed over data acquired on national level. Results of investigation are intended to be used for the standardization of home lighting requirements and the preparation of guidelines based on good lighting practice.