Anfalum analyzes how smart lighting is fundamental in the efficiency plans of smart cities

The Madrid town of Móstoles, and specifically the Imdea Energy Institute, has hosted the series of conferences on intelligent lighting or Smartlighting organized by Anfalum, lighting sector employers' association, in which the possibilities of new lighting technologies to improve energy efficiency and the awareness that the market must have in the quality of the products for their facilities have been analyzed in detail..

The Spanish Association of Lighting Manufacturers (Anphalum) and the City Council of Móstoles have organized in this Madrid municipality the First Conference on intelligent lighting or Smartlighting, in a very appropriate setting, the Imdea Energy Institute, with the aim of publicizing the advantages of applying new lighting technologies as a measure to improve energy efficiency and product quality, of lighting systems and their installations.

To this first day, which is part of a series promoted by Anfalum that will be held in different Spanish municipalities during the coming months, attended in addition to those responsible for said consistory, Pilar Vázquez and Alfredo Berges, president and director of this association, respectively; as well as prominent representatives and professionals from the lighting industry and public infrastructure management..

The mayor of Móstoles, Daniel Ortiz Espejo, explained the energy efficiency strategy for outdoor public lighting in this municipality, which plans to reduce consumption in this aspect by 58% in the coming years. Besides, you will save more than 600.000 euros per year on the electricity bill and will no longer be issued 3.703 tons of Co2 into the atmosphere with these measures.

Regulations and awareness

For your part, Ricardo Pomatta, Anfalum technical director, reviewed the regulations concerning new outdoor lighting technologies, and highlighted the work carried out by this association to raise awareness about the quality of the facilities and to publicize the advantages and risks that occur when replacing old ones with new technologies..

An example of this is the retrofit of a luminaire., consisting of modifying the original design and 'short-circuiting' electrical components to replace them with LED plates. The application of the latter and the appropriate control systems, as well as correct use of natural light “are three basic aspects in any project, “But it is necessary to carry out real lighting projects and see them as a whole to obtain the best performance.”, Pomatta stressed.

In his speech, José Juan de Vicente, manager of the UTE Endesa, Enel and Sice (Lighting City of Móstoles), recalled that the electrical and maintenance expenditure on outdoor lighting in Spain amounts to 1.200 million euros annually, and stressed the need to achieve improvements in the energy efficiency of its lighting installations, since starting from very good ratios in the city, encrypted in 64 KW/h per year per inhabitant, 12.8GW/year has been reduced to about 6,4 GWh/year, which represents savings in consumption of the 50%.

For your part, Felipe Diaz, manager of Empesa (Economic Promotion Company), presented the public procurement project Innpulso, in which the city of Móstoles is involved, along with others 51 spanish cities, and whose main purpose is to attract innovation to the market through public offering and derive funds for business R&D&i.