Comparing efficacy of rudimentary low-cost daylight-tubular devices to commercial grade product designs
The Single patch sky simulator (SPSS) is mainly used as a teaching tool but can be used to simulate daylight from the sky dome in a reproducible manner. The SPSS can thus be a useful research tool as well that can be used to test various building elements and design configurations under know lighting conditions. The CARBSE lab at CEPT university owns a working SPSS and this project aims to do two things 1) make the SPSS more user friendly than it currently is by extending the operation console provided by the manufacturer 2) Use the SPSS and its newly created user-interface/dashboard to assess two tubular daylighting systems that would be difficult to reproduce in a computer based simulation.
