Flight Deck Lighting Addressable Smart Control Modules
Navy SBIR FY2015.2


Sol No.: Navy SBIR FY2015.2
Topic No.: N152-086
Topic Title: Flight Deck Lighting Addressable Smart Control Modules
Proposal No.: N152-086-0552
Firm: InnoSys
2900 South Main Street
Salt Lake City, Utah 84115
Contact: Larry Sadwick
Phone: (801) 975-7399
Abstract: As U.S. military emphasizes Information Dominance and advanced Command, Control, Communications & Intelligence capabilities in its operation, smart lighting control for specific applications and environments, including lighting for surface aviation and amphibious assault ships launch and recover aircraft whose pilots typically use Night Vision Devices for night operations, becomes increasingly important as an integral part of the operation. Digitally addressable control of the lighting fixtures and associated circuits, for example, abroad the NVD flight deck is required in order to dim and/or turn the lights on and off. Control of this lighting is a critical operations factor. A new solution is needed for aviation lighting aboard air capable ships utilizing LED technology through a standardized smart module that will be able to recognize the lighting package configuration and what type of light fixture it is controlling through embedded firmware/software; this would allow lights of different functions and power requirements to be daisy chained, significantly reducing cable runs and installation costs. We propose to develop a comprehensive smart module solution that allows for the lights to self-configure and appear on the operator control panel in the correct lighting group as well as support dimming and flashing modes and auto-identify/configure capabilities.
Benefits: The anticipated benefits and potential commercial applications of this research and development in solid state lighting (SSL) light emitting diodes is potentially extremely large and include smart and intelligent home, office, business and industrial lighting, control and monitoring, significant energy savings and increased longevity, tunability, better light utilization, lower maintenance costs, universal and automatic self configuration and a vast and diverse host of other advantages and benefits. The application space is beyond huge as it is only a matter of time before solid state LED lighting replaces CFLs, fluorescent tubes and other types of lighting � such SSL LEDs can have lifetime that dwarf incandescent lights and the best fluorescent lights while drawing significantly less power than either of the two. SSL LED lighting energy savings over conventional lighting is also large and a major consideration. Also LEDs are environmentally friendly, do not require glass housings and contain no hazardous compounds or flimsy filaments. The benefits for the DoD/military are long life, low power ultra-bright light sources for numerous applications including shipboard, avionics, rugged, harsh and/or extreme environments. The commercial applications are nearly unlimited from general (white) light lamps to large screen multi-color RGB entertainment televisions to backlights for LCD TVs, to urban area lighting, emergency lighting, airport lighting, street lighting, building and bridge lighting, airport runway lighting, high reliability lights, remote lighting, safety lighting and the list goes on.

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