Smart City by Smart Lighting: Utilizing Smart Lighting in Urban Texture Based on Effective Using of Power to Save in Macro Economy and Create Diversity in Cities
Journal Title: Trends in Civil Engineering and its Architecture - Year 2018, Vol 2, Issue 5
Abstract
Lighting is the requirement of the present world realized by artificial lighting especially at nights. However, the price paid is not as much rational threatening the national economy. Today, permanent facing with economic problems requires utilizing any potential for economic growth. Smart lighting prevents energy and capital losses; it is applied whenever it needed; and smart streetlights provide lighting whenever any human or vehicle passes. Thus, not only the two factors of lighting and saving national capitals will always last at negligible error, but also, diversity and aesthetic elements granted to cities enjoying the social and economic convenience. It assumed that using smart lighting is one condition of providing these conveniences. However, the question raised here is the infrastructures and utilizing equipment, particularly in traditional cities, to be responded. In conclusion, utilizing such system can lead to cost return and saving in order to achieve national objectives and to unconsciously teach aesthetic, change, and saving culture.Light has always been the core factor of applying the supreme sense namely visual sense. The light encompasses the beautiful, great world and introduces the existence identity; all living organisms relates to this light. Today, visual sense is the most critical human sense. Human being obtains environmental information through using its visual sense Ghotbi Ravandi et al. [1]. Technology growth introduced artificial lighting to human life to facilitate nightlife like day and to avoid limiting working hour, entertainment, and traffic to daylight through utilizing the overall 24 hours. However, in addition to its advantages, some problems and disadvantages may emerge including excessive costs of urban lighting at nights that is in contrast with economic saving. Large, unhelpful costs spend on such lightings rather than developing and evolution of a community. For instance, when there is no human and vehicle traffic in street at night, it is not necessary to have streetlights on; and or, avoid overuse by reducing the brightness; and the brightness increases in terms of the number and volume of passing vehicles or people and reaches maximum level, if needed.
Authors and Affiliations
Amir Reza Goudarzi
Keywords
Related Articles
- EP ID EP608038
- DOI 10.32474/TCEIA.2018.02.000149
- Views 63
- Downloads 0
Beneficial Use of Nano-Silica in Concrete: A Review
Nano-silica and its use in cement-based materials, especially concrete, has been the focus of many scientific studies. This is because cement production is an energy-intensive process and because concrete is the most use...
Integration of Multiple Uses to Create a Central Place for the Community: An Approach towards a Sustainable Town Centre Development at Baze Shilinda, Rajshahi
Town centre is the social hub of the town in which the central services of the highest order are found. For being one of the fast growing cities in Bangladesh, Rajshahi needs sustainable town centre with the integration...
Analysis of Rainfall Trend in Selected States with in the Coastal Region of Nigeria using non-Parametric Mann-Kendall Test Statistics
Trend in rainfall data have a great impact on the hydrological cycle and thus involve both the character and quantity of water resources. Analysis of trend in rainfall data also aids to see the result of rainfall variabi...
Behavior of Normal and High Strength Reinforced Concrete Structures under Blast Loading
Explosions near buildings can cause catastrophic damages and can cause injuries and loss of life to the occupants of these buildings. Experiments on explosions can be very expensive, dangerous and time consuming compared...
Physico-Chemical Analysis and Modelling of Ground Water Quality Parameters Using Water Quality Index Method (WQI) and Principal Component Analysis (PCA)
Groundwater is one of the major sources of water. It is affected by a number of natural and anthropogenic factors. As groundwater use has increased, issue associated with the quality of groundwater resources have likewis...