Design and application of lighting energy consumption monitoring platform based on MVC and entity framework

Abstract

With the development of intelligent lighting technology and green lighting, energy-saving has become an important direction of research and development. A lighting energy consumption monitoring platform has been designed and described in the paper based on Model-View-Controller (MVC) software architecture and Entity framework on .Net platform. The energy consumption of the lighting system before and after the using of energy-saving equipment can be monitored, compared and analyzed, which can provide detailed numerical basis for the analyzing of energy-saving performance of the equipments. The system has been deployed by a lighting company in Suzhou. The practical results show that the system has high stability, scalability and significant energy savings.