Abstract
The design and operation of multifunctional infrastructures for public lighting as well as their impact on the urban environment and citizens’ life is today of great interest. The cost of energy for public lighting is often an issue for the budget of municipalities. Furthermore, researchers’ and designers’ attention is increasingly focused on aspects of public lighting not directly valuable through economic factors. Starting from the “quality” of the light environment, looking at citizens’ visual comfort, the light has to be considered as an instrument to improve the urban context and objects therein (including buildings). Indeed, urban degradation (lack of infrastructures, maintenance, services, etc.) is linked to the poor quality of everyday issues, such as traffic, pollution, noise, lack of information, long times to access focal points, and the lack of safety. Simultaneously, in many areas, the potential related to the valorization of historical heritage is often underexploited. The installation of efficient lighting systems coupled with the implementation of ICT solutions can provide economic, social, and health benefits, energy efficiency, and visual comfort. On the other hand, as for indoor lighting, these systems can be expensive, not easy to maintain, and not as efficient as expected. The aim of this Special Issue was to investigate the problems and advantages of smart urban lighting systems in more detail. This Special Issue included 6 papers of the 10 submitted papers.
Highlights
The six contributions of the present Special Issue are divided into three groups
The second group provides two visions of an approach based on network architectures, communication technologies, and geographical databases for smart public lighting applications, showing their benefits and downsides on the safety and social sides
Tagliabue et al [1] published a study for the planning of light renovations based on the correlation of Geographic Information System (GIS) data from different sources
Summary
The six contributions of the present Special Issue are divided into three groups. The first one regards the papers that presented analysis and methodologies that can be useful to be applied during a design step. The second group provides two visions of an approach based on network architectures, communication technologies, and geographical databases for smart public lighting applications, showing their benefits and downsides on the safety and social sides. The impacts, from two different points of view, of the applications of some of the abovementioned technologies is discussed by the two papers of the last group
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