Assessment of color quality and energy effciency : new insights for modern lighting. Part I : color quality in general lighting applications. Part II : mesopic photometry and street lighting

This dissertation is divided in two parts: The first one deal with two main characteristics of the light sources for general lighting: Color quality and luminous efficacy. The second one deals with technical aspects of the mesopic photometry applied in street lighting. The first part begins by proposing a method to generate a new color rendering index, consisting of a three-dimensional visual index, which was named 3D-CRM. In order to illustrate the use of this method and index, three examples of lighting application were performed: Artwork, meat and fruit. The results show the goodness of the visual index 3D-CRM, that is also accompanied by a numeric index that indicates how the light source tested fits with the gamut of colors required by the specific lighting application. Complementing the preceding proposal, a statistical analysis was performed in order to define the parameters that make up the color quality of light sources. This statistical study was based on a collection of more than 100 real and ideal spectra of light sources. As a result, it was found that there is another variable that can complement the CRI index to indicate the color quality. This is the proposed index Oc (Optimal Color), which is based on the calculation of volumes generated with the spectrum of test source and several ideal spectra of reflectance to get optimal colors (high saturated colors) at different luminance levels. This fisrt part of the dissertation ends by proposing an index to generate a classification of light sources according to the requirements of the lighting application and the parameters such as correlated color temperature (CCT), luminous efficacy of radiation (LER) and color quality (CQ). It was demonstrated that the new proposed index called ECQ (Efficacy and Color Quality), is able to generate a useful ranking when assessing a collection of spectra, by giving a desired CCT and the weight that efficacy and color quality have in the lighting application studied. By using some examples of different lighting applications (i.e. different weights for color quality and efficacy) it was demonstrated how versatile and useful the ECQ index is. In the second part of this dissertation, a comparison of laboratory measurements between two different types of goniophotometers is made. The first one is a standard and photometer-based one, which uses the far-field for measurement. The second one has a more recent technology, uses a CCD camera and photometer as sensors, as well as the near field for measurement. This comparison exercise validates the measurements from the near-field goniophotometer, since up to moment, for this type of measurement and type of sensor (CCD camera), there are no laboratories with international traceability that can verify or calibrate this measurement system. The comparison exercise shows that there is a very good fit between both measures performed to standard light bulbs; therefore results of the near-field goniophotometer are validated. In recent measures performed at the Light and lighting laboratory of K.U. Leuven in Ghent, it was found that near field goniophotometer has a reduced luminous intensity dynamic range, for this reason exists an error measuring low luminous intensities in a luminarie with a sharp LID such as PAR30 Spot light bulb. After that, some aspects of the Recommended System for Mesopic Photometry Based on Visual Performance, CIE191:2010 are analysed. Finally it is presented a proposal of a new metrics called Energy Consumption Index (Qsa) intended to assessing possible energy savings on street lighting systems. In this chapter, by using the Energy Consumption Index an evaluation of three different hypothetical scenarios for a typical city is performed to demonstrate how flexible and intuitive this index is. These scenarios assess different characteristics of the light system such as light sources types, dimming systems and also the use of photopic and mesopic photometry.Esta tesis se divide en dos partes: La primera trata con dos características principales de las fuentes de luz para la iluminación general: la calidad del color y de eficacia luminosa. El segundo se ocupa de los aspectos técnicos de la fotometría mesópica aplicada en el alumbrado público. La primera parte comienza proponiendo un procedimiento para generar un nuevo índice de rendimiento de color, que consiste en un índice visual tridimensional, llamado 3D-CRM. Con el fin de ilustrar el uso de este índice, se realizaron tres ejemplos de aplicación de iluminación: Arte, carnes y frutas. Los resultados muestran la bondad del índice visual 3D-CRM, que también se acompaña de un índice numérico que indica que tan bien una fuente de luz bajo prueba repolores la gama de colores para una aplicación de iluminación específica. Como complemento de la propuesta anterior, se realizó un análisis estadístico con el fin de definir los parámetros que componen la calidad de color de fuentes de luz. Este estudio estadístico se basa en una colección de más de 100 espectros reales e ideales de fuentes de luz. Como resultado, se encontró que hay otra variable que puede complementar el índice CRI para indicar la calidad del color. Este es el índice propuesto Oc (óptima del color), que se basa en el cálculo de los volúmenes generados con el espectro de la fuente de prueba y varios espectros ideal de reflectancia para obtener colores óptimos (colores de alta saturación) a diferentes niveles de luminancia. Esta primera parte termina proponiendo un índice para generar una clasificación de las fuentes de luz de acuerdo con los requisitos de la aplicación de iluminación y los parámetros tales como la temperatura de color correlacionada (CCT), la eficacia lumínica de radiación (LER) y la calidad de color (CQ ). Se demostró que el nuevo índice propuesto llamada ECQ (eficacia y calidad del color), es capaz de generar una clasificación útil en la evaluación de una colección de espectros, dando un CCT deseado y el peso que la eficacia y la calidad del color tienen en la aplicación de iluminación estudiado . Mediante el uso de algunos ejemplos de diferentes aplicaciones de iluminación (es decir, diferentes pesos para la calidad del color y la eficacia lumínica) se demostró la versatilidad y utilidad de este indicador. En la segunda parte de esta tesis, se hace una comparación de mediciones de laboratorio entre dos tipos diferentes de Goniofotómetros. El primero es uno estándar basada en el fotómetro, que utiliza el campo lejano para la medición. El segundo tiene una tecnología más reciente, utiliza una cámara CCD y fotómetro como sensores, así como el campo cercano para la medición. Este ejercicio de comparación valida las mediciones de la goniofotómetro de campo cercano, ya que hasta el momento, para este tipo de medición y el tipo de sensor (cámara CCD), no hay laboratorios con trazabilidad internacional que puede verificar o calibrar este sistema de medición. El ejercicio de comparación muestra que hay un muy buen ajuste entre las dos medidas realizadas a las bombillas estándar; Por lo tanto, los resultados del Goniofotómetro de campo cercano se validan. En recientes medidas realizadas en el laboratorio de luz e iluminación de K.U. Lovaina en Gante, se encontró que Goniofotómetro de campo cercano tiene un rango dinámico limitado para medición de intensidad luminosa, por esta razón existe un error de medición de bajas intensidades luminosas en una luminaria con una distribución aguda como por ejemplo un proyector de luz. Posteriormente se analizan, algunos aspectos del sistema recomendado para fotometría mesópica basado en el rendimiento visual, CIE191: 2010. Por último se presenta una propuesta de una nueva métrica llamada Índice de Consumo de Energía (Qsa) destinado a evaluar los posibles ahorros de energía en los sistemas de alumbrado públic

EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON QUEUEING THEORY 2016

International audienceThis booklet contains the proceedings of the second European Conference in Queueing Theory (ECQT) that was held from the 18th to the 20th of July 2016 at the engineering school ENSEEIHT, Toulouse, France. ECQT is a biannual event where scientists and technicians in queueing theory and related areas get together to promote research, encourage interaction and exchange ideas. The spirit of the conference is to be a queueing event organized from within Europe, but open to participants from all over the world. The technical program of the 2016 edition consisted of 112 presentations organized in 29 sessions covering all trends in queueing theory, including the development of the theory, methodology advances, computational aspects and applications. Another exciting feature of ECQT2016 was the institution of the Takács Award for outstanding PhD thesis on "Queueing Theory and its Applications"

Numerical methods for queues with shared service

A queueing system is a mathematical abstraction of a situation where elements, called customers, arrive in a system and wait until they receive some kind of service. Queueing systems are omnipresent in real life. Prime examples include people waiting at a counter to be served, airplanes waiting to take off, traffic jams during rush hour etc. Queueing theory is the mathematical study of queueing phenomena. As often neither the arrival instants of the customers nor their service times are known in advance, queueing theory most often assumes that these processes are random variables. The queueing process itself is then a stochastic process and most often also a Markov process, provided a proper description of the state of the queueing process is introduced. This dissertation investigates numerical methods for a particular type of Markovian queueing systems, namely queueing systems with shared service. These queueing systems differ from traditional queueing systems in that there is simultaneous service of the head-of-line customers of all queues and in that there is no service if there are no customers in one of the queues. The absence of service whenever one of the queues is empty yields particular dynamics which are not found in traditional queueing systems. These queueing systems with shared service are not only beautiful mathematical objects in their own right, but are also motivated by an extensive range of applications. The original motivation for studying queueing systems with shared service came from a particular process in inventory management called kitting. A kitting process collects the necessary parts for an end product in a box prior to sending it to the assembly area. The parts and their inventories being the customers and queues, we get ``shared service'' as kitting cannot proceed if some parts are absent. Still in the area of inventory management, the decoupling inventory of a hybrid make-to-stock/make-to-order system exhibits shared service. The production process prior to the decoupling inventory is make-to-stock and driven by demand forecasts. In contrast, the production process after the decoupling inventory is make-to-order and driven by actual demand as items from the decoupling inventory are customised according to customer specifications. At the decoupling point, the decoupling inventory is complemented with a queue of outstanding orders. As customisation only starts when the decoupling inventory is nonempty and there is at least one order, there is again shared service. Moving to applications in telecommunications, shared service applies to energy harvesting sensor nodes. Such a sensor node scavenges energy from its environment to meet its energy expenditure or to prolong its lifetime. A rechargeable battery operates very much like a queue, customers being discretised as chunks of energy. As a sensor node requires both sensed data and energy for transmission, shared service can again be identified. In the Markovian framework, "solving" a queueing system corresponds to finding the steady-state solution of the Markov process that describes the queueing system at hand. Indeed, most performance measures of interest of the queueing system can be expressed in terms of the steady-state solution of the underlying Markov process. For a finite ergodic Markov process, the steady-state solution is the unique solution of $N-1$ balance equations complemented with the normalisation condition, $N$ being the size of the state space. For the queueing systems with shared service, the size of the state space of the Markov processes grows exponentially with the number of queues involved. Hence, even if only a moderate number of queues are considered, the size of the state space is huge. This is the state-space explosion problem. As direct solution methods for such Markov processes are computationally infeasible, this dissertation aims at exploiting structural properties of the Markov processes, as to speed up computation of the steady-state solution. The first property that can be exploited is sparsity of the generator matrix of the Markov process. Indeed, the number of events that can occur in any state --- or equivalently, the number of transitions to other states --- is far smaller than the size of the state space. This means that the generator matrix of the Markov process is mainly filled with zeroes. Iterative methods for sparse linear systems --- in particular the Krylov subspace solver GMRES --- were found to be computationally efficient for studying kitting processes only if the number of queues is limited. For more queues (or a larger state space), the methods cannot calculate the steady-state performance measures sufficiently fast. The applications related to the decoupling inventory and the energy harvesting sensor node involve only two queues. In this case, the generator matrix exhibits a homogene block-tridiagonal structure. Such Markov processes can be solved efficiently by means of matrix-geometric methods, both in the case that the process has finite size and --- even more efficiently --- in the case that it has an infinite size and a finite block size. Neither of the former exact solution methods allows for investigating systems with many queues. Therefore we developed an approximate numerical solution method, based on Maclaurin series expansions. Rather than focussing on structural properties of the Markov process for any parameter setting, the series expansion technique exploits structural properties of the Markov process when some parameter is sent to zero. For the queues with shared exponential service and the service rate sent to zero, the resulting process has a single absorbing state and the states can be ordered such that the generator matrix is upper-diagonal. In this case, the solution at zero is trivial and the calculation of the higher order terms in the series expansion around zero has a computational complexity proportional to the size of the state space. This is a case of regular perturbation of the parameter and contrasts to singular perturbation which is applied when the service times of the kitting process are phase-type distributed. For singular perturbation, the Markov process has no unique steady-state solution when the parameter is sent to zero. However, similar techniques still apply, albeit at a higher computational cost. Finally we note that the numerical series expansion technique is not limited to evaluating queues with shared service. Resembling shared queueing systems in that a Markov process with multidimensional state space is considered, it is shown that the regular series expansion technique can be applied on an epidemic model for opinion propagation in a social network. Interestingly, we find that the series expansion technique complements the usual fluid approach of the epidemic literature

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Special volume on selected papers from the second ECQT conference (ECQT 2016), Toulouse, France

International audienceThe second edition of the European Conference on Queueing Theory, which was held in Toulouse, France, July 18-20, 2016, attracted 112 presentations. After the conference, the contributors were invited to submit full-length papers to a special issue of PEVA. All the submissions to this special issue underwent a thorough reviewing process, on par with that for regular PEVA submissions, at the end of which nine papers were accepted. These nine papers cover both theoretical and methodological aspects as well as applications of queueing theory in domains like wireless networks, inventory systems, and cloud computing, We would like to thank the Technical Program Committee of ECQT and other anonymous referees for their timely reviews ensuring that the queueing delays for submissions were kept to a minimum. The next edition of the ECQT meeting will be held in Jerusalem (Israel) in July, 2018. We hope you will be able to atten