Urban lighting project for a small town: comparing citizens and authority benefits

The smart and resilient city evolves by slow procedures of mutation without radical changes, increasing the livability of its territory. The value of densely populated city center in a Smart City can increase through urban lighting systems: placing its elements on the territory they can collect and convey data to increase services to city users, grating the so called Smart Grid. This paper presents a study of smart lighting for a small town, which is a touristic location inside a nature reserve on the Italian coast. Three different approaches have been described, from minimally to more invasive interventions, and their effect on the territory has been investigated. Starting from a retrofitting intervention, the work analyzed also the opportunity to introducesmart and useful services for the citizens, basing on street typology and its surroundings. Therefore smart city capabilities are examined, showing how it is possible to provide new services to the cities through ICT (Information and Communication Technology) without deep changes and simplifying the control of basic city functions. The results show also an important impact on costs, suggesting the planning of the smart grids not only on metropolis applications, but also in smaller town as the examined one.