Intelligent lighting concepts can combine sustainability, climate and animal protection, as well as regional value creation effects in municipalities, among others. Intelligent luminaires with cloud-based light management can reduce energy use and climate-damaging emissions as well as costs on the one hand and protect animals such as insects and bats on the other.

At the Environmental Campus Birkenfeld, conventional street lights were replaced with smart street lights as a test site in the form of a model street. In the future, other areas are to be integrated into the pilot project at the campus, such as parking space monitoring at the electric charging stations. Furthermore, the monitoring of animals, e.g. bats, is to be tested with the help of sensor technology on the installed luminaires. The aim is to test the smart solutions in practice and to use the knowledge gained to promote innovations and further developments in this area. Furthermore, the model street at the Environmental Campus will serve to show municipalities, among others, what real advantages a retrofit can mean in detail.

The pilot project is being carried out by Telekom in cooperation with the company Lanz Manufaktur GmbH, the municipality of Hoppstädten-Weiersbach, the Institute for Applied Material Flow Management (IfaS) as an institute of Trier University of Applied Sciences and the Environmental Campus Birkenfeld.