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Virtual Reality for Smart Urban Lighting Design: Review, Applications and Opportunities

Virtual Reality for Smart Urban Lighting Design: Review, Applications and Opportunities

Authors :
Michelangelo Scorpio
Roberta Laffi
Massimiliano Masullo
Giovanni Ciampi
Antonio Rosato
Luigi Maffei
Sergio Sibilio
Source :
Energies, Vol 13, Iss 15, p 3809 (2020)
Publication Year :
2020
Publisher :
MDPI AG, 2020.

Abstract

More and more cities are evolving into smart cities, increasing their attractiveness, energy efficiency, and users’ satisfaction. Lighting systems play an important role in the evolution process, thanks to their ability to affect city life at night along with people’s mood and behaviour. In this scenario, advanced lighting design methods such as virtual reality (VR) became essential to assess lighting systems from different points of view, especially those linked with the city users’ expectations. Initially, the review highlights a list of objective and subjective parameters to be considered for the lighting design of three main city areas/applications: roads, green areas and buildings. Besides, the state-of-art in using VR for outdoor lighting design is established. Finally, the Unreal game engine is used to analyse the ability of VR to take into account the lighting parameters, not yet investigated in current literature and to highlight the VR potential for augmenting lighting design. The results confirm the benefit of using VR in lighting design, even if further investigations are needed to establish its reliability, especially from the photometrical point of view.

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
19961073
Volume :
13
Issue :
15
Database :
Directory of Open Access Journals
Journal :
Energies
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
edsdoj.5ad0278496bf4c6e93b17eb80c42181c
Document Type :
article
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.3390/en13153809