Development of an indoor light simulator for the characterisation of Photovoltaic components and autonomous IoT systems

Lightricity已经开发出世界领先的高效室内光伏（PV）技术，能够为众多小型无线设备供电，例如可穿戴设备和物联网（IoT）。该公司目前向物联网设备开发商销售其独特的室内光伏组件技术，并向系统集成商和物联网解决方案提供商提供光伏供电的物联网设备。为了在设备可能经历的所有照明条件下测试我们的产品，从而展示与电池供电设备相比的性能潜力，我们开发了一系列经济实惠的便携式光模拟器（Lightbox）。除了帮助解决我们的内部需求外，Lightbox目前还出售给研究人员和光伏设备开发商。我们需要充分表征和优化Lightbox产品，以提高其性能。与国家物理实验室（NPL）合作，可以获得独特的定制测量能力、专业知识和与标准开发的联系。该项目将帮助我们提高Lightbox的准确性，并确保它与未来的国际标准保持一致。这将增加客户对该产品的信心，并使其成为光伏供电物联网设备的独特，低成本测试工具。

Lightricity has developed world leading efficiency indoor photovoltaic (PV) technology capable of powering a multitude of small wireless devices e.g. for wearables and the Internet of Things (IoT). The company currently sells its unique indoor PV component technology to IoT device developers and also offers PV-powered IoT devices to systems integrators and IoT solution providers. In order to test our products in the full range of lighting conditions likely to be experienced by the devices and therefore demonstrate performance potential vs battery-powered devices, we have developed a family of affordable, portable light simulators (Lightbox). As well as helping address our internal needs, the Lightbox is currently sold to researchers and PV-powered device developers.We need to fully characterise and optimise the Lightbox product in order to improve its performance. Working with the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) brings access to unique custom measurement capabilities, expertise and linkage to standards development. The project will help us improve the accuracy of the Lightbox and ensure that it is aligned to future international standards. This will increase customer confidence in this product and make it a unique, low-cost testing tool for PV-powered IOT devices.