Ecole Polytechnique Federale De Lausanne

Ecole Polytechnique Féderale De Lausanne (epfl)

Ecole Polytechnique Federale De Lausanne (epfl) Epfl-tto

Yujie Wu

Jean-Louis Scartezzini

Jérôme Henri Kämpf

A shading device is configured to be integrated into a façade of a building. The shading device includes an imaging system configured to create images of an outside view of the building.

Shading device

In a sky monitoring system, comprising an image sensor, a wide-angle lens, a microprocessor, and a memory unit, wherein the sky monitoring system is configured to take pictures of a sky scene, wherein the sky monitoring system is configured to subdivide each picture of the sky scene into a group of patches and to determine one luminance value for each patch, wherein the sky monitoring system is configured to calculate an output based on the luminance values of the patches, the image sensor, the wide-angle lens, the microprocessor and the memory unit are integrated into one single sky monitoring device thus making the sky monitoring system an embedded system.

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Ecublens, Switzerland

Yujie Wu