Smart City Lighting Systems
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "B: Energy and Environment".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2020) | Viewed by 43624
Special Issue Editor
Interests: light and lighting; heat transfer; radiation; UV; energy management; cultural heritage; smart city; energy savings; health
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Dear Colleagues,
In the last few decades, cities have had to change and renovate to face new challenges, as the urban context has become the focal point of the main socioeconomic processes and energy and environmental transformations. The smart city concept has been introduced as a model for developing the city of the future, and most improvements and transformations in this model are based on energy aspects.
In this context, lighting has assumed a fundamental role, from energy, environmental, and human comfort perspectives. On one hand, the discovery of blue LED made the realization of low energy consumption lighting systems feasible: The success of the new LED light sources on the market is basically due to high-energy performances and flexibility in terms of control and management. On the other hand, light has been discovered to have effects on people beyond vision, such as relevant impacts on human life, wellbeing, visual comfort, visual performance, photobiological and psychological issues, safety, and health.
This Special Issue seeks to improve knowledge of all these dimensions of light (energy, performance, psychology, safety, physiology, economics, etc.) in the smart city era, asking for scientific and multidisciplinary contributions that bring innovation and new perspectives. We therefore invite papers on innovative technical developments, reviews, case studies, and analytical, as well as assessment, papers from different disciplines, which are relevant to smart city lighting systems.
Prof. Fabio Bisegna
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- lighting applications
- energy savings
- visual performance
- health
- safety
- daylight
- electrical light
- circadian system
- outdoor
- indoor
- smart
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