Extended Reality for Smart Built Environments Design: Smart Lighting Design Testbed

TL;DR

This paper introduces an extended reality-based testbed for designing smart lighting systems in residential environments, enabling prototype generation and evaluation of user well-being and comfort.

Contribution

It presents a novel XR-based testbed for smart lighting design that integrates physical environment functionality for prototype development.

Findings

Prototype generation for smart lighting systems

Evaluation of well-being and comfort impacts

Enhanced design process through XR simulation

Abstract

Smart Built Environment is an eco-system of `connected' and `smart' Internet of Things (IoT) devices that are embedded in a built environment. Smart lighting is an important category of smart IoT devices that has recently attracted research interest, particularly for residential areas. In this paper, we present an extended reality based smart lighting design testbed that can generate design prototypes based on the functionality of the physical environment. The emphasis is on designing a smart lighting system in a controlled residential environment, with some evaluation of well-being and comfort.