Development of an integrated and low-cost indoor light simulator for the characterisation of photovoltaic components and autonomous IoT systems

开发集成且低成本的室内光模拟器，用于表征光伏组件和自主物联网系统

• 批准号: 10062019
• 金额: $ 2.63万
• 依托单位: LIGHTRICITY LIMITED
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Collaborative R&D
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10062019
• 关键词: Development; integrated; low; cost; indoor

Lightricity has developed world leading efficiency indoor photovoltaic (PV) technology capable of powering a multitude of small wireless devices e.g. for wearables and the Internet of Things (IoT) thus avoiding the sustainability and maintenance costs of battery power. The company currently sells its PV component technology to IoT device developers and also offers PV-powered IoT devices to systems integrators and IoT solution providers.In order to test our products in the full range of lighting conditions likely to be experienced by the devices and therefore demonstrate performance potential vs battery-powered devices, we developed a family of affordable, portable light simulators (LightBox). As well as helping address our internal needs, the LightBox is currently sold to researchers and PV-powered device developers.Our latest LightBox product (LightBox+) is a very low cost (under £100), fully integrated, portable and calibrated version that does not require an expensive and bulky source-meter to be interfaced with it. The objective is to make test capability much more widely available and affordable in a format that suits the much bigger market in education, commercial IoT device development, device performance evaluation and even hobbyists where accuracy and resolution demands are lower but costs are critical. Although it is functional, it needs to be improved to meet industry standards and reach full market acceptance.NPL and ASTUTE have been engaged through A4i to help with measurement and analysis support to solve measurement challenges relating to characterising and optimising performance and allowing choices for design for lowest cost manufacturing. They bring unique expertise and custom equipment not otherwise available commercially and a strong linkage to standards development for indoor PV technologies. This will increase customer confidence in the LightBox+ product and also underpin sales of our own PV component and PV-powered IoT device products.

Lightricity已经发展了世界领先的效率室内光伏（PV）技术，能够为许多小型无线设备提供动力，例如对于可穿戴设备和物联网（IoT），因此可以避免电池电量的可持续性和维护成本。该公司目前将其PV组件技术出售给IoT设备开发人员，并向系统集成商和IoT解决方案提供商提供PV功率的IoT设备。为了在设备可能会经历的各种照明条件下测试我们的产品，因此我们开发了一系列可承受的电池功能供电设备，我们开发了一家可承受的便携式灯箱（Lightbox）。除了帮助满足我们的内部需求外，Lightbox目前还出售给研究人员和PV供电的设备开发人员。我们的最新Lightbox产品（LightBox+）是非常低的成本（低于100英镑），完全集成，便携式和校准版本，不需要昂贵且笨重的源米表即可与之干扰。目的是使测试能力以适合教育，商业物联网设备开发，设备绩效评估甚至准确性和解决方案需求较低但成本至关重要的教育，商业设备开发，设备绩效评估甚至业余爱好者的格式更广泛可用和负担得起。尽管它具有功能性，但需要改进它才能达到行业标准并达到全面的市场认可。NPL和ATTUTE通过A4I订婚，以帮助测量和分析支持，以解决与表征和优化性能以及为最低成本制造的设计选择以及允许选择的绩效和选择的选择。它们带来了独特的专业知识和定制设备，以其他方式在商业上不可用，并且与室内光伏技术的标准开发有很强的联系。这将增加客户对LightBox+产品的信心，并支持我们自己的PV组件和PV供电的物联网设备产品的销售。