Sunlight Transport
The smart use of natural daylight can be very effective in reducing electrical use from lighting fixtures during the day. Traditionally windows and skylights have provided natural sunlight to the interiors of buildings, and more recently, solar transport “tubes” have gained in popularity.
A new breed of sunlight transport mechanisms can bring natural daylight to the most inaccessible, hard-to-reach areas of buildings, such as interior rooms and basements, using fiber optics and other innovative technologies.
- Parans Sunlight in a Cable - Parans’ revolutionary technology turns gloomy rooms into sun bathed areas.
With high quality fiber optics, sunlight reaches 20m into buildings from the nearest roof or façade. - Sunlight Direct’s Hybrid Solar Lighting (HSL) technology uses a solar concentrator to collect and distribute sunlight into the interior of a building via plastic optical fibers.
- Luceplan’s Zeno is a lightpipe fixture that can integrate other light sources into the design, like compact fluorescent bulbs, HID Metal-Halide and halogen lamps. This allows for an interfacing of “efficiencies, temperatures, colours and chromatic yields.”
Sunlight Direct and Luceplan.
