Illuminating Integrity in Lighting

Illuminating Integrity in Lighting

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Improved Daily Light Integrals with Satellite Data

From its introduction forty years ago, the Daily Light Integral (DLI) metric has become an important tool for determining monthly daylight availability for crops and estimating supplemental electric lighting requirements for greenhouses. DLI charts for the continental United States have been available for nearly two decades, but it has only been in the past year or so that DLI information for geographic locations worldwide has been made available through various online DLI calculators.

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Horticann Light + Tech Confrence

We are excited to announce that SunTracker Technologies’ Senior Scientist, Ian Ashdown will be presenting at the HortiCann Light+Tech virtual conference on Tuesday, October 20th, at 2:00 PM EDT. Registration is free. HortiCann Light+Tech conference: https://lnkd.in/gXckAbF Conference schedule: https://lnkd.in/gHUF6XD Session registration:...

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New and Improved DLI Calculator!

NOW NEW AND IMPROVED – SunTracker Technologies is pleased to announce that it has developed a web-based FREE to use online calculator to predict monthly DLI values for anywhere in the world, based on climate-based Typical Meteorological Year (TMY) weather records from over 2,100 weather stations worldwide. Improved DLI Calculator Release Date...

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SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REAL TIME DYNAMIC LIGHTING SIMULATION

https://patents.google.com/patent/US10796479B2/ Publication #: US10,785,849 Publication date: 06-Oct-20 Abstract: Sustainable building lighting and energy modelling and control, and the associated computer graphics, including its application to predictive daylight harvesting; and the real time simulation of physically-based electric lighting...

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