LightCon - Short description (full version of LightCon) LightCon is a software package which has been developed especially for photometric equipment used in the field of automotive production and development. LightCon offers a broad range of applications in the field of research, development and quality control of headlights or other automotive, but also non-automotive light sources and retro-reflecting materials. Convenience - A state-of-the-art solution for light measurement Surface: Object windows are designed a way ensuring that the user already is able to see commands already executed and those commands still in progress to be executed MS Explorer like functional trees help to get easier access to projects measured and objects in the library (such as bulbs, sample positions etc.) Routine measurement applications: Usual applications such as grid and slice are implemented as predefined routines and can be executed directly Assistant: An assistant is automatically launched to help the operator during application

Function range structure

• Standard measurement according to international regulations such as ECE, SAE, JIS, KS
• Single point measurement , output of the measured results in Candela or Lux
• Min/Max calculation of vertical or horizontal cross sections, output of the maximum position
• Grid measurements in the form of vertical or horizontal cross-sections, subsequent storage and
  evaluation of the data Measurement of the cut-off line, determination of gradient
• Measurements of time characteristics (switching on the lamp, burn-in time) of discharge lamps,
  graphic representation and output of the luminous intensity as function of time

Additional features

• Transformation of grid graphics into road or wall projections
• Addition (Superimposition) of measurement data obtained from several measurements
• Integration of the luminous flux in order to determine the efficiency
• Representation of the ISOLUX distribution in 2-D form, free choice of limit values
• Distribution of light in specific horizontal and vertical cross-sections
• Supports measurement of retro-reflection, luminous color, luminance
• Graphical 3-D- representation of light distributions
• Isocolor diagrams

System requirements
Windows2000, Windows XP (Windows 2000, XP are registered trademarks of the Microsoft Corp.)

The software is able to control the following hardware components:

• SMS10 (all different models of the sms 10 series)
• Power supply (power supplies of the SNT10 and FUG types)
• Measuring channels directly connected with the sms 10 control in order to measure luminous intensity
• Tristimulus colorimeter FMS 10
• SNT 10 DC power supplies
• Retro-reflectometer RMS 10 gse (and other versions)
• Spectral analysis with the CAS 140 spectrometer (option)
• Measuring luminous flux or illuminance with digilumen 9500 or digilux 9500
• HP multimeter and power supplies (option)
• Luminance meter LMS 20
• Thermometer (option)
• Other photometric equipment (option)

Further features

• Online representation of results
• Hardware part of the entire system is represented on the user surface as adapted menu, function and input fields
• Online burn in diagram, online representation of values measured, online representation of grid diagrams.
• System diagnosis assistant
• E-mail emergency report
• User administration: Access rights can be defined to limit access to
• certain high level user functions to be protected against unauthorized modification
  (user levels: user, regulation creator, administrator, service technician)
• Tool for professional, photo realistic presentation available
• Report generator allows free design of test reports
• Complete regulation support acc. ECE and SAE (in preparation)
• Regulations available as download from the corporate website
• Contains translator tool for multilingual functionality
• LightCon is multi user capable
• Training program available
• Graphical projections on any kind of surface available (bird's eye, driver's view, but also various
  inclinations of the surface illuminated)
• Extended library of obstacles
• Customized approximation on user's demands
• Extensive application support directly from the system provider
• ASCII - Excel export function (CSV format)