If you fall out to drive through Albertslund , Denmark starting next month , you could become part of a massive experimentation on the future of street kindling . The Copenhagen suburb is getting 100 of saucy lamp connected to all sort of sensors . It makes good sense this would happen in Albertlunds — a suburb already recognize for its historic street lamp .
The fib goes that back in the LX designer Jens Møller - Jensen was work for his architect begetter on a park in Albertslund . The offer lights were too expensive , he thought , so he took a hebdomad andthrew together a prototypemade from a jam jar , an antenna , and an onetime traffic sign of the zodiac . you may now find the eponymous Albertslund lampall over the world , but it originated in this piffling suburb .
Variations on the Albertslund lamp . Louis Poulsen
You might say the Danish Outdoor Lighting Lab ( DOLL ) number out of the same tradition of resourcefulness . The lighting solution prototyped at DOLL will make their way to Copenhagen , which want to be C electroneutral in about a decade , and perhaps even around the cosmos like the original Albertslund lamp .
Big city likeNew YorkandLos Angelesare already switching to more energy - effective LED lamp , but the light at DOLL go lot further . A 9.2 kilometer , or 5.7 mile , stretch of road is being outfitted with street lamps as well as sensor for “ traffic concentration , line quality , interference , weather conditions and UV radiation,”according toNew Scientist . Some lamps will light up or dip depending on lighting consideration and activity . There ’s also CopenHybrid , account New Scientist , a mast that gather solar and hint tycoon to keep the brightness on . So far , 25 companies have signed up to use skirt .
Even away from street light , Albertslund has been on the forefront of cutting emission . As “ surviving science laboratory , ” it has also a rowing ofsix selfsame housesthat test prefab vim and insulation solutions . And of path , it has one of those amazing bike highways that allow commuter bike into Copenhagen . The future of the energy efficient metropolis might just be starting to glow in Albertslund . [ New Scientist ]
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