Digital twin-driven approach to improving energy efficiency of indoor lighting based on computer vision and dynamic BIM

Intelligent lighting systems and surveillance systems have become an important part of intelligent buildings. However, the current intelligent lighting system generally adopts independent sensor control and does not perform multi-source heterogeneous data fusion with other digital systems. This paper fully considers the linkage between the lighting system and the surveillance system and proposes a digital twin lighting (DTL) system that mainly consists of three parts. Firstly, a visualized operation and maintenance (VO&M) platform for a DTL system was established based on dynamic BIM. Secondly, the environment perception, key-frame similarity judgment, and multi-channel key-frame cut and merge mechanism were utilized to preprocess the video stream of the surveillance system in real-time. Lastly, pedestrians detected using YOLOv4 and the ambient brightness perceived by the environment perception mechanism were transmitted to the cloud database and were continuously read by the VO&M platform. The intent here was to aid timely adaptive adjustment of the digital twin and realistic lighting through the internet. The effectiveness of the proposed method was verified by experimenting with a surveillance video stream for 14 days. The key results of the experiments are as follows: (1) the accuracy rate of intelligent decision control reached 95.15%; (2) energy consumption and electricity costs were reduced by approximately 79%; and (3) the hardware cost and energy consumption of detection equipment and the time and cost of operation and maintenance (O&M) were greatly reduced.