Everything You Wanted to Know About Consumer Light Management in Smart Energy

TL;DR

This paper reviews IoT-enabled consumer light management systems, emphasizing sustainability challenges, existing solutions, and future research directions to reduce environmental impact and improve efficiency in smart lighting.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive review of current methods, highlights limitations, and proposes future research avenues for sustainable IoT-based consumer lighting solutions.

Findings

Identified key limitations in current consumer light management systems.

Reviewed multidisciplinary approaches for sustainable IoT lighting.

Outlined future research directions for eco-friendly smart lighting.

Abstract

Consumer lighting plays a significant role in the development of smart cities and smart villages. With the advancement of (IoT) technology, smart lighting solutions have become more prevalent in residential areas as well. These solutions provide consumers with increased energy efficiency, added convenience, and improved security. On the other hand, the growing number of IoT devices has become a global concern due to the carbon footprint and carbon emissions associated with these devices. The overuse of batteries increases maintenance and cost to IoT devices and simultaneously possesses adverse environmental effects, ultimately exacerbating the pace of climate change. Therefore, in tandom with the principles of Industry 4.0, it has become crucial for manufacturing and research industries to prioritize sustainable measures adhering to smart energy as a prevention to the negative impacts. Consequently, it has undoubtedly garnered global interest from scientists, researchers, and industrialists to integrate state-of-the-art technologies in order to solve the current issues in consumer light management systems making it a complete sustainable, and smart solution for consumer lighting application. This manuscript provides a thorough investigation of various methods as well as techniques to design a state-of-the-art IoT-enabled consumer light management system. It critically reviews the existing works done in consumer light management systems, emphasizing the significant limitations and the need for sustainability. The top-down approach of developing sustainable computing frameworks for IoT-enabled consumer light management has been reviewed based on the multidisciplinary technologies involved and state-of-the-art works in the respective domains. Lastly, this article concludes by highlighting possible avenues for future research.