Lighting Design Calculation Engine

Cerise365™ offers numerous new features including:

  • Improved Radiosity Calculations

Cerise365™  utilizes a proprietary parallel processing algorithm that results in radiosity calculations being two to three times faster than our legacy Helios32/64 software, with extremely large environments with millions of elements being the fastest.

  • JSON

Cerise365™ utilizes a single JSON file. Otherwise, the Cerise365™  API is fully backward-compatible with our legacy  Helios32/64 Version 8.0 API.

  • OpenGL Buffers

Cerise365™ supports both OpenGL 2.1 display lists and OpenGL 3.1 buffers.

  • Real-Time Lighting

Cerise365™ integrates Mandato (Cerise365+Mandato) real-time dynamic lighting into its OpenGL display.

  • Texture Maps

Cerise365™ directly imports JPEG, PNG, BMP, and PSD image files.

  • IES TM-33 Files

Cerise365™ will natively import IES TM-33 and UNI 11733 luminaire optical data files.

https://www.ies.org/product/standard-format-for-the-electronic-transfer-of-luminaire-optical-data/

  • glTF Files

Cerise365™ exports industry-standard glTF files.

https://www.khronos.org/gltf/

  • Optical Sensors

Cerise365™  supports photometers, radiometers, and PAR (quantum) meters.

  • Fixed Meters

Cerise365™ supports fixed meter arrays with user-specified positions for electric lighting.

 

HelioSol Software Solutions Inc.

provides software and expertise to the lighting industry as real world solutions to lighting design and engineering problems. HelioSol licenses the Cerise Suite of software tools worldwide through an exclusive arrangement with SunTracker Technologies Ltd. SunTracker was founded by the esteemed Ian Ashdown, Senior Scientist, to advance research and develop professional lighting design software for architecture, horticulture, entertainment and health based on over 30 years’ experience in the industry.

Climate‐Based Daylighting

Site latitude and longitude

Building orientation

Time and date

Typical Meteorological Year weather data

Hourly solar irradiance

Hourly wind speed and direction

Hourly temperature

Hourly humidity

Electric Lighting

High‐pressure sodium (HPS)

Multicolor light‐emitting diodes (LED)

Horticultural luminaire optical characteristics

Radiant and luminous flux calculations

Photosynthetically Active Radiation (PAR)

Irradiance (UV to far‐red)

Illuminance

Spectral power distributions (5 nm resolution)

ASABE Plant Radiation Metrics

Photosynthetic Photon Flux Density (PPFD)

Ultraviolet Photon Flux Density (PFDuv)

Far‐Red Photon Flux Density (PFDfr)

Spectral Photon Flux Density (SPFD)

Spectral irradiance

Daily Light Integral

Illuminance (footcandles/lux)