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AN EVALUATION OF RADIANCE BASED SIMULATIONS OF ANNUAL INDOOR ILLUMINANCE DISTRIBUTIONS DUE TO DAYLIGHT C. F. Reinhart, S. Herkel reinhart@ise.fhg.de, herkel@ise,fhg.de Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems, Solar Building design Group Oltmannsstrasse 5, 79100 Freiburg, Germany ABSTRACT 2. run under calculation times on the order of This paper presents a new, accelerated method based minutes to a few hours on GD\OLJKWFRHIILFLHQWV according to Tregenza [1] to 3. be able to model short time step variances of the calculate cumulative annual indoor illuminance available daylight. distributions. Simulation results are compared with The last requirement is necessary to successfully five RADIANCE based daylight simulation methods model the performance of automated lighting including the daylight factor method [2], ADELINE concepts based on illuminance and occupancy 2.0 [3] and ESP-r version 9 series [4]. An explicit sensors. The new method presented in this study calculation of the indoor illuminances under all meets all these conditions: excellent accuracy under annual hourly mean sky luminance distributions convincing simulation times with the possibility of serves as a reference case against which the other introducing shorter time steps. The method is methods are tested. The analysis of the results compared to five other annual daylight