Santiago de Compostela begins a global smart lighting pilot

Led by Televes, in collaboration with Ferrovial and the University of Santiago, The Casa del Cabildo of this Galician city will use this lighting model to preserve its heritage value.

It is pilot project, framed within the initiative called Cromalux, aims to develop innovative lighting systems that preserve heritage buildings, reducing energy consumption by 80% and combating the biological colonization of its facades. All this with a zero ecological impact.

A few days ago, the Plaza de Praterías in Santiago de Compostela became the center of attention with the operationalization of the smart lighting of the Cabildo House.

This initiative is led by Televes Corporation, in collaboration with Ferrovial and the University of Santiago. “It is a very ambitious and innovative project., “There is no other place in the world that is doing it.”, has pointed out Sebastian Pantoja, director of strategic programs of this company.

This lighting solution, based on Led technology, “this Telegestionada and has diastatic capacity -adds the director of Televés-. What we do is illuminate in a spectrum of light, slowing down the growth of biota on the façade of monumental buildings.”.

According to data provided by the company, “With this project we achieve a energy efficiency around 80%, a reduction in maintenance costs 60%, and in the costs of conservation of the monument of the 50%, all this respecting the new circular development policies and biodiversity”, Pantoja points out.

This project will be running for a minimum of three to six months., to later be extended for two more years, y, as Sebastián Pantoja points out, “we all want it to be successful, is implemented throughout Santiago and, later, in all the cities that are World Heritage”.

This is the first step of Smartiago project, with the lighting of a real stage, “to confirm the good results obtained in the laboratories so far and which have presented very promising data for the future”.

This ornamental lighting system, pioneer in the world, has been awarded to a consortium that includes the company Televés, Ferrovial and USC (University of Santiago de Compostela) for an amount of 613.581 euros, with the 80% co-financed by the European Fund for Regional Development.