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Lighting in the Smart City is evolving rapidly. The confluence of technologies and other enabling factors is transforming municipal lighting from passive illumination into an active participant in nighttime cityscapes. Crude bulk light sources are being replaced with energy efficient and highly controllable/configurable light emitting diodes (LEDs) . The efficiency and cost of these new approaches to lighting have already surpassed the best legacy systems, and are enabling a revolution in dynamic, multimodal, and multidimensional lighting solutions for the Smart City.
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Writing this chapter has turned out to be a summing up of my 11 year career in industrial design and product development with Philips Lighting, that ended happily, and with mutual gratitude in January this year. LEDs (light emitting diodes), were my first unreasonable new technology enthusiasm back in 2005, when they were overpriced, and still not nearly as efficient as High Intensity Discharge lamps. But they were digital, highly controllable, and Haitz law, (the equivalent of Moore’s law for LEDs), projected a clear future where in a few years where they would take over the market, as they now have. Since product design and development in lighting used to take several years, back in the day, before CNCs and 3D printing were widely available, developing ideas way at the beginning of the wave was essential to have any chance of incorporating it effectively into a viable product. So I took on the challenging role, in what was then a very entrenched and conservative industry, of insisting we take a leading role in technological trends with prototypes, pilot projects and product, in order to create value for the customer and generate product and service differentiation, in an increasingly cluttered marketplace. In the last few years using IoT, controls, sensors, network densification and AI in embedded, networked and stand-alone lighting were to me clearly the path out of product and service mediocrity and commodification and into a valuable future. So researching, reaching out to experts in the field, and speculating, sometimes using more imagination than knowledge, about the next revolutionary wave in lighting, where we are now in the early part, is what this chapter is about.
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Boissevain, C. (2018). Smart City Lighting. In: McClellan, S., Jimenez, J., Koutitas, G. (eds) Smart Cities. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59381-4_11
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