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January 2010 Vol. X No. I
RNI Reg. No. DELENG/2001/4847
LIGHT
NEWSLETTER
of the indian society of lighting engineers
the ofcial
GOVERNING BODY
Dr. A.D. Kulkarni President
Mr. Gulshan Aghi Vice President
Mr. P.K. Majumdar Hon. General Secretary
Mr. R. Nagarajan Hon. Treasurer
Mr. I.M. Asthana
Mr. C.R. Datta
Ms Rohini Mani
Dr. Saswati Mazumdar
Mr. Rajat Roy
Mr. S. Venkataramani Past President
Ex-officio members from State Centres
Mr. Prakash Chatterjee Chair, Calcutta
Mr. A.K. Jain Chair, Delhi
Mr. P.C. Barjatia Chair, Mumbai
Mr. Dilip Kumbhat Chair, Chennai
Mr. M.S.N. Swamy Chair, Karnataka
Mr. R.S. Saxena Chair, Rajasthan
Ex-officio, President, ELCOMA:
Mr. Sunil Sikka
Permanent Invitee:
Mr. H.S. Mamak
Directors of Committees:
Mr. S. Venkataramani CIE India
Mr. H.S. Mamak Conference & Exhibition
Dr. Saswati Mazumdar Education & Training
Mr. Gulshan Aghi Membership
Ms. Rohini Mani Publication & Publicity
Mr. N. Nagarajan Standardisation
Mr. I.M. Asthana General Administration
Mr. Dilip Kumbhat Finance
EDITORIAL COMMITTEE
Mr. H.S. Mamak Editor
Mr. P.K. Mukherjee Associate Editor
Mr. P.C. Barjatia
Ms. Rohini Mani
Mr. M.S.N. Swamy
Mr. P.K. Majumdar Ex-officio
Mr. R. Nagarajan Ex-officio
Printed & Published by Mr. Harcharan S. Mamak,
A 274, Defence Colony, New Delhi 110 024 on behalf of
Indian Society of Lighting Engineers and printed by him
at Graphic Point Pvt. Ltd., WZ-429 B, Naraina Village,
New Delhi.
FROM THE PRESIDENTS DESK
2010 is going to be a busy year for ISLE.
The State and Local Centres have planned their
programmes to celebrate the Silver Jubilee. There will be
lectures, seminars, workshops, training programmes and
quiz shows among other activities. There will also be cultural
events at each centre meant for members and their families.
All members should take active part in the State and Local
Centre activities. The internationally acclaimed lighting
designer, Mr. Mark Major will be giving the Silver Jubilee
Lectures at Mumbai and Delhi while Mr. Behr Champana
(well known now to ISLE members from Lii2005 and Lii2009)
has agreed to give a lecture at Bangalore.
On the Lighting Education front also things are moving
forward. Mr. Venkataramani is working to make the web
enabled lighting course operational in the near future.
The Lighting Education Trust, UK has agreed to
make ISLE its exclusive partner for their diploma and
post graduate courses on lighting. ISLE will decide on the
universities and institutions in India that these courses
will be offered to. Presently these courses are run through
the London South Bank University and attracts great
interest from students including many from south east
Asia. For use in India these courses will be modified to
include Indian Standards and data.
LRC (the Lighting Research Centre at the Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY) has offered to run two
courses in two ISLE State Centres every year over the next
3 years. The Bureau of Energy Efficiency has agreed to
contribute 50% of the cost of running these courses. The
operational details of this collaboration are being worked
out and dates will be finalised and announced shortly. In
the first year these courses will be run in Chennai and
Mumbai. In future years the courses will be run in other
State Centres.
In these past 25 years ISLE has clearly established
its credentials both nationally and internationally as the
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EDITORIAL
promoter of lighting education and good lighting practice.
Let us make the most of the new opportunities in our
Silver Jubilee year to take this further. After all, we have
succeeded in creating an awareness among professionals
involved in the built environment as well as the lay
public that lighting is a specialised area of interest. And
this is becoming evident from the increase in lighting
activities from outside our Society as well. There are an
increasing number of lighting exhibitions and conferences
being organised as well as a recognition by the design
community that lighting design is a specialised discipline
with far reaching implications for aesthetics as well as
energy economics.
In the second week of February 2010 Goa was the
venue of the International Lighting Seminar Lights in
Goa organized by the Goa Regional Centre of IIID and
the Professional Lighting Design Association (PLDA). I
was happy to be a part of this event of this well attended
outstanding Lighting event.
ONGC has decided to establish an Energy Centre with
a corpus of Rs.500 crores. LEDs and the development
and promotion of this field has been identified as the area
of interest. Mr. H. S. Mamak has been included in the
concept committee.
While all this is evidence of the good work done by
the Society in the past there is much to be done. We are
fortunate to be a part of this exciting discipline of lighting,
especially at this juncture where both technology and
concepts are changing at a rapid pace.
I look forward to hearing your ideas.
Avinash D Kulkarni
President
dradk@hotmail.com
It is with great sadness that we received the news of
the passing away of the ISLE stalwart Dr. K.K. Rohatgi-
Mukherjee. Our sincere condolences go out to her family.
Karnataka State Centre is continuing its work in
spreading lighting awareness in rural areas. There are
also reports on activities from Mumbai and Indore. The
level of activity is definitely going to be accelerated in the
coming months with the Silver Jubilee celebrations.
The preparations for the Lii2011 event in Chennai
are underway and we hope that ISLE members will help
ensure widespread participation both in the exhibition as
well as the conference.
The CIE conference on Lighting Quality and Energy
Efficiency is round the corner in Vienna. We are proud
that ISLE Fellow member Mr. S. Chakraborty is delivering
a technical paper and our Immediate Past President and
CIE Vice President, Mr. S. Venkataramani will also be
attending. We do hope that some more ISLE members
will also attend this extremely informative and important
conference.
Later in the year CIE is also holding a tutorial and
expert symposium on spectral imaging methods in August
and an expert symposium on appearance in September.
And the call for papers for the 27th CIE Session in Sun
City, South Africa has been sent out. The abstracts are
due in September. There must be a good number of papers
from India this time. There is still time and I would request
those members who can, to send in their abstracts.
Mr. Brandston with his comments on the GLS lamp
has ensured that the Letters to the Editor column is being
kept busy. It would appear that many members would
like to comment on the subject. We are carrying some
letters in this issue.
While ISLE often addresses the lighting community,
the general user or common man also needs to be
addressed. Many of us have the knowledge to do this and
help the general user to improve his lighted environment
while saving energy and money. As a first step in this
direction the President has contributed an article on
lighting options for the common man and we look forward
to more contributions to follow.
We are also carrying an article by Arun Moorthy on the
use of smart networks at the Delhi Metro headquarters
for keeping costs under control.
Once again I would like to appeal to members
involved in lighting projects to share their experiences
with others through the newsletter by sending us articles
for publication. We are aware that several of our members
are involved in the lighting design for the Commonwealth
Games and others in the beautification of Delhi. We
request these members to please send us write-ups for
publication in the Newsletter.
H.S. Mamak
Editor
MAILING ADDRESS
Our current mailing address is
Indian Society of Lighting Engineers
A-274, 1st floor, Defence Colony
New Delhi 110 024
Tel: 46562981, 46562982
Fax: 46528477
E-mail: isledel@vsnl.com, www.isleind.org
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ISLE ACTIVITY
March 4-7, 2011, Chennai
The next edition of the ISLE international Exhibition
and Conference, Lii2011 is scheduled to take place in
Chennai in March next year. This is the first time that the
Light India International will be held in a location outside
Delhi.
The event will take place at the Chennai Trade Centre,
the international trade fair facility in Chennai which is a
joint venture of the India Trade Promotion Organization,
Govt. of India and the Tamilnadu Industrial Development
Corporation (TIDCO), Govt. of Tamilnadu.
Display Prole
Commercial, Retail, Residential Lighting
Industrial Lighting
Street Lighting
Environmental/Landscape Lighting
City Beautification
Architectural Lighting
Railway/Metro Lighting
Airport/Runway Lighting
Refinery/Mine Lighting
LED Lighting
Intelligent Lighting
Security Lighting
Lighting with Non-conventional Energy
Specialty Lighting
Lighting Accessories and Controls
Power Saving Lighting Solutions
Testing and Measuring Equipment
Support
Lii2011 is supported by the following organizations:
Tamil Nadu Electricity Board
Tamil Nadu Energy Development Agency
Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises,
Govt. of India
National Small Industries Corporation
Tamil Nadu Small Industries Development
Corporation
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited
Detailed information can be obtained from:
ISLE Chennai State Centre
D-10 Ambattur Industrial Estate
Chennai 600 058
Tel: +91 44 26257710, 42089999
Fax: : +91 44 26257866, 26243500
Email: islechennai@Lii2011.in
www.isleind.org
OBITUARY
Prof. Dr. (Mrs.) K.K. Rohatgi - Mukherjee
Krishna Kamini Rohatgi-
Mukherjee, who was the first lady
committee member of ISLE, passed
away peacefully on December 31, 2009
at Nagpur. She was a D.Phil (Oxon),
Fulbright Scholar and former Head of
the Department (Physical Chemistry)
at Jadavpur University, Kolkata.
After the first State Centre of ISLE
was formed in Calcutta in 1987, she became a member
of the Calcutta State Centre Committee. At that time
she was the President of the International Photobiology
Society (IPS).
ISLE was proud to nominate her as the member to
represent India in the CIE Division 6, Photobiology and
Photochemistry. In that capacity she also became an ex-
officio member of the Governing Body of ISLE, as was the
practice from the end of eighties till the decade of nineties.
In February 1989, the India Photobiology Society had
a meeting in Calcutta. Dr. Rohatgi-Mukherjee, who was
the Secretary of the India Photobiology Society, organised
a well-attended Seminar on behalf of the Calcutta State
Centre of ISLE, in which the experts attending the IPS
meeting spoke on various subjects related to Light and
Health, for example the treatment of Vitiligo.
Dr. Rohatgi-Mukherkjee had another connection
with lighting since birth. Her father was the Late Binay
Krishna Rohatgi, and the family owned Pradip Lamps.
Her brother Mr. Kumar Rohatgi was a very active member
of the Lamps and Accessories Sectional Committee of the
BIS till the early eighties. Now the family is in LEDs in a
big way. But she was seriously involved in academics. She
was literally wedded to Chemistry. Her husband was Late
Prof. Dr. Sushil Kumar Mukherjee, a well known professor
of Chemistry and former Vice Chancellor of University of
Calcutta and Kalyani University (Dr. S. K Mukherjee also
delivered a lecture in a Calcutta State Centre Seminar in
1988 on the influence of Light on Science).
Although Dr. RohatgiMukherjee was no longer active
for the last 10 years due to advancing age and poor
health, her passing away has finally brought to a close the
chapter of ISLE activity in Photobiology, Light and Health,
which we started so well more than 20 years ago, but
could not sustain.
May the soul of Krishna Kamini rest in peace.
Pranab Kumar Bandyopadhyay
Vol. X No. I 5
MUMBAI STATE CENTRE
Annual General Meeting
October 30, 2009, Mumbai
The Annual General Body Meeting of Mumbai State
Centre was held on 30.10.2009 at Nehru Planetarium,
Worli, Mumbai. Points as per the Agenda were discussed.
Discussions were also held on the programmes for the Silver
Jubilee celebrations. Apart from specific programmes, it
was decided to give more emphasis on
Membership Drive
Student activities
Educational activities with the support of Colleges
and Universities.
K.Naveen
Hon.Secretary
ISLE MSC
Lighting Workshop
October 8, 2009, Bangalore
ISLE Karnataka State Centre conducted a workshop
on Lighting at BESCOM in Bangalore. About 40 Engineers
of the rank of SE, ExE and AE connected with maintenance
attended the workshop.
Mr. Sathyaprema Kumar, GM welcomed the delegates,
faculty members, the Managing Director and Technical
Director of BESCOM and members of the media.
Mr. M.S.N. Swamy, Chairman, ISLE KSC welcomed
Mr. Tushar Giri Nath IAS, the Managing Director, Mr.
Nagesh, the Director Technical and Mr. Sathyaprema
Kumar the GM of BESCOM and others present on behalf
of Karnataka State Centre.
Mr. Sathyendra, Hon. Secretary, gave a brief on ISLE
and its activities and projects undertaken.
Mr. Tushar Giri inaugurated the workshop. In his
inaugural address he focused on the prime problems and
the areas requiring attention by lighting professionals and
service providers.
Mr. Sathyendra gave the vote of thanks and invited
the speakers to begin the technical session.
The following papers were presented.
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Terms of Reference: To review the current state
of dosimetry applied to low-level-laser/light therapy
(LLLT), referred to also as laser biostimulation or laser
photobiomodulation, and prepare a CIE technical report
on preferred methods for dosimetry.
Although a wide variety of low-irradiance laser and
LED phototherapy devices are employed in medical
practice for pain relief and wound healing and treatment
of chronic disease, a full understanding of the underlying
mechanisms of photobiological interactions remain under
scientific investigation. A key challenge is to establish
a uniform, standardised means of expressing the
photobiological exposure of tissue. The role of this TC is to
recommend scientifically sound dosimetric methodology
that will apply independent of the exact mechanism.
The following new Reportership has been
established:
R2-47: Photometry of curved surface sources
(Hsueh Ling Yu, TW)
m
-2
and 30 cd
m
-2
, confirm Grassmann additivity,
but the third study shows failure of additivity at 3 cd
m
-2
.
In addition, Maxwell and maximum-saturation colour
matches have long been known to be inconsistent even
at high luminance levels and with intra-observer match
replication to suppress noise. A practical consequence
of the failure of additivity could be problems observed in
crossmedia colour matching, although cross-media studies
also have other well known sources of imprecision when
the colour-matching is asymmetric. Some suggestions
are made for a covering theory of Grassmanns laws
that might accommodate both Maxwell and maximum-
saturation match data while still maintaining consistency
with high-luminance success in experiments such as
reported recently. Further investigations are indicated for
a successor to TC 1-56.
The publication is written in English, with a short
summary in French and German. It consists of 20 pages
with 3 figures, and is readily available via the website of
the Central Bureau of the CIE (www.cie.co.at).
The price of this publication is EUR 38,-- (Members of
the National Committees of the CIE get 50% discount).
Dear Sir,
This has reference to the correspondence related to
banning of Incandescent lamps and Mr. Brandstons point
of view on the subject and other related matters. In my
opinion every lamp has a place under the sun. It has its own
advantages, disadvantages and niches of use. The need of
the industry and research organisations for their growth at
a given point of time appear to decide suitability of different
lamps for the users rather than their intrinsic utility value.
Incandescent lamps, T12/T8 Halophosphate FTLs,
HPSV/Metal Halide and CFLs seem to have been led
to the path of death to sustain the T5 and LEDs thru
weapons of argument and slick presentations. In the
case of the first 3, Energy Efficiency and short life are the
weapons while the ghost of mercury is the weapon in the
remaining. The performance of T5 and LEDs is yet to be
proved under onerous conditions normally encountered
in what will be the biggest consumers, viz, Developing and
emerging economies.
Where the knowledgeable but common users in
the Developed countries are given the option they have
generally favored the proven old technologies. In a recent
report from National Lighting Bureau of USA, made
known to us by Anool Mahidharia, it has been mentioned
that 75% of the FTL market in USA is still taken by T12!
Similar data may not be available publicly for LEDs
because the performance standards for widespread use
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are yet to be established. It may take time simply because
they are to last 50,000 hours. LEDs are attractive to
Architects and IDs because of the colour contrast and
control it provides, but not much attention is given to the
life and cost of installment. I understand that in US T5
is not as acceptable as in Europe primarily because USA
still operates on FPS modular ceilings. Perhaps this is
the reason for targeting our large and ill informed market
by projecting T5 and LEDs as the symbols of being the
leading edge. Never mind their sensitivity to our power
conditions and inability to give expected performance. Of
course more lamp failures mean increased frequency of
lamp replacement!!
On the issue of Energy Savings nobody seems to have
looked at the energy consumed by Media, Visual and Print.
The wastage of printed material (which involves lighting!)
and energy consumption in SSTV lighting in myriads of
TV channels is not addressed by any agency. Even the
Green TV channel is no exception.
C. Sthalekar
chaltit@gmail.com
Dear Sir,
SUB: About CFL - Views for Publication in ISLE
Newsletter
1.0 From Day One Lighting Manufacturing Companies
have promoted CFL Lamp as energy saving lamps
Manufacturers hardly advertised that CFL lamps are
energy savings w.r.t. GLS Lamps and not tube lights.
The campaign by companies was so powerful that it
brainwashed not only common man but the professionals
who started replacing Tube light with CFL lamps.
2.0 From day one I used to say that these lower
wattage CFL Lamps are more suitable for passages and
toilets etc. and not for functional areas like offices etc.
3.0 The capital cost of CFL lamps are higher than tube
lights to achieve same lighting parameters and in turn the
higher running cost. When professional used CFL lamp
Luminaires for working areas it was in general without PF
improvement capacitors.
4.0 In my commercial projects I have proved to
the client that CDM-TC lamps are better than CFL
lamps in terms of energy savings and running cost for
same quantitative lighting parameter. The qualitative
parameters are much better with CDM-TC lamps.
5.0 Then came the lower wattage lamps with
electronics to be used in same holder as that of GLS
lamps. Unfortunately electronics was poor - in terms of
providing constant voltage, eliminating Harmonics and
improved P. Further many imported CFL lamps by traders
was with poor powder quality. All these affected the life of
the lamps as well as the electrical systems.
6.0 Therefore it was essential to review the Quality
of CFL Lamps by standardisation Committee at national
level. The debate was Higher life or higher PF. I was
neither present in the meetings nor had the opportunity
to read the draft specifications ( ISLE should make the
draft public for the comments by Members), but I am sure
that with debate among ELCOMA, BIS, BEE, it must have
been finalised that CFL with better PF is better option for
the country.
7.0 Now that White LED technology is improving and
cost is going down, it is matter of time that LED may take
over low wattage CFL lamps.
Thanks & regards
Anil Valia
atvalia@gmail.com
Dear Valia,
With due respect to you, I do not entirely agree with
the views expressed in your letter.
Under point 1 you say Manufacturers hardly
advertised that CFL lamps are energy savings w.r.t GLS
Lamps and not tube lights. This is not true. Almost the
entire (bulk of) the CFL advertising campaign theme by
the Industry has been highlighting the savings w.r.t GLS
Lamps. Same Socket, Same Light, More Life and Less
Energy. In fact all (most) of the CFL packs carried the
equivalent GLS Wattage it can replace. Yes, it is also true
that knowledge percolation was/is not sufficient leading
to instances of Linear Fluorescent Lamps being replaced
with CFLS.
In responses to point 2, I would like to say the
following. What about Down Lighters in Office Corridors,
Conference Rooms, Reception Areas? it is very much
layout dependent. Higher wattage CFLs like the 36W
are extensively used for Lighting of Functional areas in
Offices from the Aesthetics and Efficiency angle.
To point 3 my response is that lighting parameters
cannot always be the only consideration Aesthetics and
Ambience also play an important role. Non Retrofit CFL
Luminaires with Electronic Drivers with HPF circuits
have been available for a while now. The issue is again
Choice and Awareness
In point 5 your reference to poor electronics is not
applicable to all brands.
I will be happy to have a further exchange of views
with you on these issues.
Regards
S. Venkataramani
s.venkataramani@philips.com
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WEB WATCH
Chinese Designer Zheng JianWei Wins IES
Illumination Award of Excellence
Mr. Zheng JianWei was presented with the Paul
Waterbury Award for Outdoor Lighting Design, Award of
Excellence, at the Illuminating Engineering Society Annual
Conference presentation of the 2009 IES Illumination
Awards. Mr. Zheng addressed the audience of his lighting
professional peers in the ceremony and became the first
lighting designer from Mainland China to receive such a
coveted award. This year there were over 500 submitted
entries.
The Illuminating Engineering Society of North
America issues the Paul Waterbury Award for Outdoor
Lighting Design, Award of Excellence, each year to the
best project worldwide, as voted for by a committee of
lighting professionals. The project that the award was
given for was the 7th Courtyard of Beijing Olympic Green
Central District.
Mr. Zheng also won three Awards of Merit for three
separate projects, the Beijing LAN Club interior lighting,
the National Stadium (Birds Nest) facade lighting, and the
Beijing Han MeiLin Museum interior and outdoor lighting.
LINKS :
http://www.ies.org/programs/ia.cfm
http://www.ies.org/PDF/Awards/ia/
2009%20Recipients.pdf
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/
chinese-designer-zheng-jianwei-wins-ies-illumination-
award-of-excellence-78128487.html