ILLUMINATE studies “smart” lighting in high quality urban areas, both in terms of energy efficiency and quality of light. Seven pilot projects in city centers, museums and acquariums tested the proposed LED lighting solutions.
The ILLUMINATE project aimed at assessing Solid State Lighting applicability and benefit in high-quality urban areas and in buildings hosting expositions and museums when light quality is an uncompromising requirement and LED use is still problematic.
Pilot projects have been implemented in:
The total number of annual visitors is around eight million people. This will consent to a vast assessment of end users’ perception of proposed lighting through ex-ante and ex-post measurements, polls, evaluations.
All pilot projects foresee further extension.
The City of Genoa, lead partner of the project, coordinates partners from six different countries and the pilots are helped by:
Total European funding is almost two million euros.
ILLUMINATE is part of the Seven Framework Programme “Information Communication Technologies (ICT) – Policy Support Programme (PSP)”, aimed at supporting competition and innovation, promoting advanced lighting technology with low environmental impact. The other approved project concerns the new illumination project of the Sistine Chapel and the two projects will cooperate in communication, dissemination and technical confrontation.
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