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Designing Lighting Systems II

Type of study Follow-up Master
Language of instruction English
Code 410-4216/02
Abbreviation POS2
Course title Designing Lighting Systems II
Credits 8
Coordinating department Department of Electrical Power Engineering
Course coordinator doc. Ing. Tomáš Novák, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

List of lectures

1. Fundamentals of vision - eye and visual mechanism
2. Mesopic and scotopic vision - visual functions in low light conditions
3. Glare - visual adaptation to different lighting conditions in time and space - different principles and possibilities
4. Electrical light sources - qualitative and quantitative parameters
5. The luminaires - optical, electrical and mechanical parameters
6. Control of lighting systems - sensors in lighting
7. Interior lighting - norms requirements for the interior lighting on work places
8. Outdoor lighting - norms requirements for road lighting and outdoor working places
9. Emergency and anti-panic lighting - requirements
10. Security lighting - lighting for activities that are not possible stopped immediately
11. Lighting of pedestrian crossings
12. Lighting for cameras systems and hygienic requirements for lighting
13. Instruments for lighting measures and operational measuring of light-technical parameters

List of exercise lessons:
1. Introduction
2. Light-technical design of emergency lighting
3. Enter the project, familiarity with software
4. Calculation of assigned projects in accordance with the specified software
5. Light-technical design of the camera lighting
6. Enter the project, familiarity with software
7. Calculation of lighting system using specified software
8. Light-technical design of pedestrian crossings lighting
9. Enter the project, familiarity with software
10. Lighting-technical design of emergency lighting
11. Enter the project, familiarity with software
12. Calculation of lighting system using specified software
13. Defence of individual projects

E-learning

Consultation through MS Teams.

Literature

Norms: EN 12464-1, EN 1838, EN 50172, EN 15193, EN 13201
Lighting Engineering 2002

Advised literature

The Lighting Handbook