Method of providing lumens and tracking of lumen consumption

A method for tracking lumen illumination and payment for lumen illumination, said method comprising:

• installing at least one light emitting diode light fixture at a customer location;
• the at least one light emitting diode light fixture provider receiving payment of a pre-determined monetary amount as compensation for photons generated by each of the at least one light emitting diode light fixture for a billing cycle;
• metering electricity provided to each of the at least one light emitting diode light fixture for a period of time and storing the metered electricity provided to each of the at least one light emitting diode light fixture on at least one processor having memory;
• measuring the amount of lumens generated by each of the at least one light emitting diode light fixture for the period of time and storing the measured amount of lumens within said at least one processor having memory;
• automatically comparing the measured amount of lumens at each of the at least one light emitting diode light fixture for the period of time to data representative of a desired lumen illumination level as stored in the memory of the at least one processor;
• automatically adjusting the electricity to be provided to each of the at least one light emitting diode light fixture to achieve a desired lumen illumination level said adjusting being implemented by said at least one processor;
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• calculating within a computing device an electrical payment to be made by the customer of the at least one light emitting diode light fixture to the provider of the at least one light emitting diode light fixture for the billing cycle.

A method of tracking lumen generation and payment for lumen generation the method comprising:

• providing a customer with at least one light emitting diode light fixture, the provider of the at least one light emitting diode light fixture receiving from the customer a payment of a pre-determined monetary amount as compensation for photons generated by the at least one light emitting diode light fixture for a period of time;
• metering the electricity entering the at least one light emitting diode light fixture over the period of time and storing the metered amount of electricity entering the at least one light emitting diode light fixture over the period of time in memory on at least one processor;
• measuring the electricity exiting the at least one light emitting diode light fixture over the period of time and storing in said memory the measured electricity exiting the at least one light emitting diode light fixture over the period of time on the at least one processor;
• automatically comparing at the at least one processor the measured amount of electricity exiting each of the at least one light emitting diode light fixture for the period of time to data representative of a desired lumen illumination level, wherein the at least one processor automatically adjusts the electricity to be provided to each of the at least one light emitting diode light fixture to achieve the desired lumen illumination level;
• storing in said memory the adjusted electricity provided to each of the at least one light emitting diode light fixture for the period of time;
• retrieving from memory and compiling on a computing device the metered electricity and the adjusted electricity provided to each of the at least one light emitting diode light fixture for the period of time;
• determining at the computing device the amount of compensation to be paid for the lumen generation for the compiled electricity for the at least one light emitting diode light fixture for the period of time.