ABSTRACT Artificial lighting was an engine of economic progress since its development allowed to extend human activities at night and to spaces where natural light did not reach. Thenceforth, artificial electric lighting has constantly evolved, in principle oriented toward improving energy efficiency, and recently giving more importance to improving color reproduction for the observer. In that sense, it has been necessary to constantly improve the understanding of the observer model and consequently enhance the measures that allow to characterize the illumination sources according to their ability to reproduce the colors. Currently, the most used measures are those derived from TM 30–18 (, ) and the CIE CRI (). On the other hand, the development of controllable LED sources and the integration of environments with mixed lighting (daylight-artificial) have opened a new field of research aimed at controlling LED sources, thinking about energy efficiency and maintaining controlled the chromatic reproduction conditions. For this reason, in this paper is proposed an , and estimation model, using artificial neural networks with different architectures, and where RGB sensor signals or low-cost multiband signals are used as inputs. The estimation was made by training and evaluating 120 MLP and ELM architectures, and the training set was constructed from combinations of the SPDs available in TM 30–18, finally obtaining more than 300,000 spectra. The absolute error for the best performing MLP was less than 1% and the correlation between the actual and estimated measures was close to 99%. The model found as a result of the estimation in this work, can be implemented in a low-cost microcontroller unit (MCU) to be integrated into an intelligent control system, an IoT or Edge system.