Bright lights, smart city

• Autores: Aviva Rutkin
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 2981, 2014, pág. 17
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Hundreds of lights are being erected in a Danish industrial park in a suburb of Copenhagen. When ordinary citizens pass through the area, they'll be taking part in a massive experiment to work out how people should light their cities in the future. To test all the options, Copenhagen is setting up the Danish Outdoor Lighting Lab (DOLL) in a suburb called Albertslund, which will open to the public on Sep 18. There, engineers will have freedom to toy with the different products, while foreign officials who are curious about the technology can comparison-shop for their hometown. DOLL is also part of a long vision for Copenhagen itself: the city hopes to install smart lights as part of a quest to become carbon-neutral by 2025, and one of the lights exhibited at the lighting lab will probably be chosen for the job.