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17 Adaptive Lighting
 Jered Greenspan
Madhav Khanna
Sichao Wang
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An adaptive lighting system that responds to the environment in setting the brightness and color temperature of an LED light, using occupancy detection and current light levels. A sensor unit will be set on a table, and wirelessly transmit to a microcontroller that controls an RGB LED array. This work will improve upon the project "Color Adaptive Interior Lighting" and "Adaptive Solid State Lighting" from fall 2011 by utilizing a color sensor, CCT setpoints, an occupancy sensor, and will be adaptable to multiple lighting sources. We hope that this system will lower overall power usage, and lead to a more pleasing lighting experience.

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