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Although wireless lighting products have already been on the market, the<br />

functionality is confined merely to personal area manual lighting manipulation. The<br />

dissertation pioneered the system level design of an energy-efficient wireless lighting<br />

control system <strong>for</strong> shared-space offices. In addition to circumventing costly <strong>and</strong><br />

complicated retrofits as claimed by all wireless systems, the research also focused on<br />

taking advantage of the individual addressability of wireless-enabled lighting<br />

components. Possessing a similar addressability feature as its wired counterpart, DALI<br />

[54] <strong>and</strong> LonWorks [56], the research system is even more flexible <strong>and</strong> less constrained<br />

<strong>for</strong> configuring the lights to meet occupants’ preferences in an energy-efficient manner.<br />

Human subject tests conducted in this research have verified the promising<br />

per<strong>for</strong>mance of the wireless lighting system as compared to commercial products with<br />

similar functionalities. The testing result also reveals the need <strong>for</strong> a variety of overriding<br />

mechanisms even though the ultimate goal is an automatic lighting system. Users<br />

always dem<strong>and</strong> a certain degree of control over the environment in which they work,<br />

<strong>and</strong> recognizing <strong>and</strong> respecting this desire could be the key <strong>for</strong> advanced wireless<br />

lighting systems to successfully penetrate the market.<br />

10.3 Future Research<br />

The future research directions are discussed from the following three aspects:<br />

further improvement of the research system, extension of the developed lighting system,<br />

<strong>and</strong> application of the framework beyond the current domain. Enhancing the system<br />

per<strong>for</strong>mance <strong>and</strong> increasing sensing <strong>and</strong> actuation capabilities are considered as further<br />

improvements of the research system. Generating more energy savings through the<br />

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