The 'vision and roadmap urban lighting Eindhoven 2030' has been established as the official policy for the municipality in November 2012. In a public tender companies and consortia were invited to offer an innovation relation to develop, implement and continuously innovate a smart lighting grid. The consortium Philips/Heijmans won the tender and signed the contract in October 2016. The consortium, together with partners, will implement intelligent lighting applications in the five Living Lab areas in the city.
LightHouse, together with the Intelligent Lighting Institute, will support the consortium with research to implement co-creation processes with residents, entrepreneurs and stakeholders in the pilot areas, to identify the needs in the different areas, as well as with the selection and testing of the installed solutions.

Three areas in Eindhoven are chosen as pilot areas.
The pilot areas have different use, functionality and stakeholders:

• Woenselse Heide (West) is a residential area with 5,150 residents and 3,170 houses in the north of Eindhoven with many amenities close by.
• Tracé de Ring encloses the center of the city. The route consists of 2 x 2 lane motorway with cycle paths, sidewalks and service roads.
• Gijzenrooi (Stratum) is a relatively young, child-rich neighborhood, built in the 1990s. The neighborhood has 726 houses and 1,960 inhabitants.

In each pilot area, a four step approach is applied:

• Fase 1: Replace luminaires to LED
  The old luminairs are replaced with LED and connected to realise the base for the smart lighting grid.
• Fase 2: Mapping the needs and opportunities
  Through a diversity of research methods and approaches the different target groups of the area, including residents and entrepreneurs, to identify their needs, wishes and ideas.
• Fase 3: Ideas and solutions
  Together with the stakeholders ideas and solutions are generated that meet the needs and developed as proposals for implementation.
• Fase 4: Realization and testing
  The chosen solution(s) are further co-created with the stakeholders in the pilot area, implemented and tested on their impact.

On this page the current status and interim results of the different pilot areas will regularly be updated so that you have an up-to-date picture of where we are.

The research design and results of the need finding research:
  20170707 need finding research Woenselse Heide West.pdf (Dutch only)
Published July 7, 2017.

A summary of the results - needs and opportunities in WHW:
  20170908 Report needs and opportunities WHW.pdf (Dutch only)
Published September 8, 2017.

An overview of the solutions that are proposed for WHW:
  20170921 ideas WHW.pdf (Dutch only)
Published September 21, 2017.

The research design and results of the need finding research:
20180226 need finding research Trace Ring.pdf (English version)
Published February 26, 2018.
20180201 behoeften en kansen Trace Ring.pdf (Nederlandse versie)
Published January 2, 2018.

A summary of the results - needs and opportunities:
Report needs and opportunities Trace Ring.pdf (Dutch only)


An overview of ideas for solutions at Trace De Ring:
20180518 ideeenboek Trace Ring.pdf (Dutch only)

• Fase 1: Replace luminairs to LED
  Finished November 2017.
• Fase 2: Mapping the needs and opportunities
  Started in May 2018. Various activities have been organized to start a dialogue with residents of Gijzenrooi about their wishes and needs, and to brainstorm about possible opportunities for innovations on the smart lighting grid. With the residents' association and their general members meeting, a Cool Wall is filled with locations that people like and dislike and with potential solutions that people find relevant for application in the neighbourhood.
• Fase 3: Ideas and solutions
  Started with a Bootcamp which resulted in a lot of ideas.
• Fase 4: Realization and testing
  The realization of the solution has been stopped with the termination of the JLO040-project.

A summary of the results - needs and opportunities (Dutch only)
JLO040 behoeftenonderzoek Gijzenrooi.pdf
Published November, 2018.

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