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The Internet as a New Tool for Implementing Energy-Efficient Lighting
Evan Mills
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy
MS 90-3058, Berkeley, California 94708, USA
ABSTRACT
This paper presents examples of how the Internet is being used to implement energy-efficient lighting, and discusses problems that remain to be resolved. The global Internet is fast becoming one of the most important energy efficiency information resources. Used since the 1960s by a small number of government and academic institutions, recent developments in networking technology and software have attracted as many as 70 million users, including lighting and energy-related groups such as utilities, buildings professionals, and a wide variety of private companies. The Internet?s multimedia-based World Wide Web represents a particularly important innovation by simultaneously offering access to text, searchable databases, photographs, sound recordings, interactive calculations, and video images.
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