ILI Vision and Roadmap Urban Lighting Eindhoven 2030

Cities see great opportunities in the newest lighting technologies to embark on the transition towards energy savings and cost reduction, and at the same time contribute to other values such as city marketing or economical development. Visionary cities also see opportunities for societal challenges to drive new lighting innovations. However, the challenge for cities is to make the right investment decision keeping in mind costs, sustainability and societal impact on the short and longer term, that extends beyond public lighting alone. LightHouse developed an approach to create a vision and roadmap to support short-term decisions that will enable further development in the future and applied it in the city of of all a vision is created, involving insights from the quadruple helix. Interviews are held with thought leaders from industry, knowledge institutes and government to select and interpret trends that are most relevant and have the highest impact on a liveable city in 2030. An analysis of these rich interview data reveals three drivers for change. The first driver is the growing influence of information. To allow this driver to develop in the direction of a positive society, an ethical recalibration is a prerequisite, in which also a code of conduct is designed. The second driver, the changing perception of value, requires an economic recalibration, in which new forms of value beyond money are included. The third driver, the growing potential of people, asks for a social recalibration and redefinition of the city to a creative hot aspires to be a front-runner in innovative intelligent lighting solutions that contribute to a high quality of life in the city. Combining this aspiration with the drivers for change leads to a desired scenario for Eindhoven in 2030 in which a smart lighting grid is provided as public utility. In this way the city creates space to co-design and test with citizens, to redesign public space into an extended living space instead of a traveling area. For instance with lighting solutions such as made-to-measure light that travels with you, or traffic safety realise this future scenario, a roadmap was made together with the quadruple helix to plot the possible technological developments together with the corresponding timeline. Lighting technologies will evolve from a focus on technical performance improvement to adaptive and invisible systems. Technologies for smart cities evolve from a focus on infrastructure smart city systems including public lighting. The roadmap discussions also reveal required organisational changes: the changing role of the council from a lead user to a full partner in the quadruple helix. The roadmap connects technological options to societal drivers that determine the quality of life. At the short term a flexible smart lighting infrastructure needs to be implemented. The municipality will need to guard the public interest by ensuring openness on all levels of the system architecture. Last but not least, living labs are created where continuous innovation in the quadruple helix takes place. In this way the city becomes a creative hotspot where societal challenges drive new lighting Vision and roadmap urban lighting is produced by LightHouse for and in partnership with the city of Eindhoven. If you are interested, please contact out more on: