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a popular active research area [8-13], upon which the technologies developed in this<br />

research are built.<br />

The work of interfacing lighting control components with wireless sensor <strong>and</strong><br />

actuator network technologies is meant to demonstrate practicability <strong>and</strong> realize the<br />

research system as defined in the third research area. Although the prototyping lighting<br />

components are also designed to be compact with the most suitable, economical <strong>and</strong><br />

environmental-friendly elements, it is clear that they can be further optimized if the<br />

components were to be mass-produced <strong>for</strong> commercialization.<br />

1.5 Research Contributions<br />

This dissertation introduces a framework <strong>for</strong> energy-efficient wireless lighting<br />

systems in hopes of providing high quality office lighting while mitigating global<br />

warming by reducing lighting energy consumption. This research has made both<br />

theoretical <strong>and</strong> applications oriented contributions.<br />

The theoretical contributions have been made mainly through the theoretical<br />

developments of this research. The algorithms developed are optimized <strong>and</strong> practical <strong>for</strong><br />

real-time applications. The fuzzy sensor validation <strong>and</strong> fusion algorithm <strong>and</strong> the<br />

autonomous sensing with adaptive rate algorithm can be generalized <strong>for</strong> various sensing<br />

applications. For example, the sensor fusion algorithm has been applied to structural<br />

health monitoring <strong>for</strong> space vehicles in [14]. The optimal lighting actuation algorithm<br />

can also be extended <strong>for</strong> systems with multiple actuators to achieve the optimal<br />

per<strong>for</strong>mance. Moreover, this research also pioneered in exploring <strong>and</strong> demonstrating the<br />

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