On November 5, 2020, it was held the Final Conference of the LIFE-DIADEME project.
Initially planned during the Ecomondo exhibition in Rimini, where the project would have had its own space at the Reverberi Enetec Stand, Lead Partner of the project, the recent events related to the health crisis forced the organizers to present the final results in a live streaming Webinar with more than 80 participants.
The Seminar opened with the greetings of Gian Paolo Roscio, AIDI President, the Italian Lighting Association that introduced the speakers and moderated the discussion, followed by the projection of the official DIADEME Video.
Angelo Salsi, head of the LIFE and CIP Eco-innovation Unit of EASME, the European Commission Agency in charge of the management of the LIFE Programme, praised the DIADEME project for its success and, above all, for the results far beyond the most optimistic expectations.
Antonella Valitutti of the Ministry of the Environment did not want to miss the appointment to underline how DIADEME is absolutely in line with the policies of the Ministry on energy efficiency and adaptation to climate change, thanks to the savings obtained and the reduction of the emitted pollutants into the atmosphere.
Town Councillor for Infrastructures of the Municipality of Rome, Linda Meleo, together with Raffaele Gareri, Director of the Digital Transformation and Urban Economic Development Department, pointed out the commitment of the municipal Administration in the realization of the Smart City through a series of solutions and projects of which DIADEME is certainly an application of absolute relevance. The data coming from the installed systems will be integrated into the City Data Platform, the backbone of a huge infrastructure able to offer innovative services and information to the City Users, citizens and companies
Marco Frascarolo, from Roma Tre University, focused on illuminating engineering features and on in field measurements for the realization of the Pilot Project.
Stefano Listrani, from ARPA Lazio, praised the DIADEME Air Quality control units installed, for the more than satisfactory quality of the data gathering realized through low-cost electrochemical sensors.
Eugenia Rossi di Schio, Town Councillor for Digital Innovation, Research, Development and Civic Services, brought her greetings and thanked the DIADEME Consortium for the opportunity offered to the Municipality of Rimini to take part in the experimentation of Adaptive Lighting and briefly presented some interesting projects on waste management and green areas utilization, energy efficient buildings and electric mobility, recently developed on the town territory.
Following, the most awaited presentation was undoubtedly that one from Andrea Mancinelli (Reverberi Enetec), LIFE-DIADEME Project Manager. To him the burden of retracing the project phases, from the initial research on materials to the Pilot of the first 100 installations in Rome EUR, up to the completion of over 1000 installations including 200 units in Piacenza and Rimini. Concluding on the truly flattering results achieved in terms of energy savings and environmental impacts brilliantly reconciled with a certain and a very short return on investment.
Andrea Temporelli, from RSE Research on Energy System, concluded the technical part by presenting the life cycle and environmental impact assessment (LCA and LCIA) of DIADEME Systems.
Francesco Dugoni, Director of AGIRE, the Energy Agency of the Province of Mantova, DIADEME partner, retraced the Communication and Dissemination activities carried out during the project life, considered so relevant by the EU Commission for the diffusion of actions and results of the project itself.
DIADEME System was studied and initially applied in the Municipality of Rome, but thanks to the collaboration between Reverberi Enetec, project Lead Partner, and local municipal Administrations, and thanks to a considerable economic effort, the model was also adopted in Piacenza and Rimini.
Alberto Carone, from Citelum SA (EDF Group), explained the activities developed in the Municipality of Piacenza, the innovative technologies applied in the roads affected by the experimentation and the first results obtained. Just after, Luca Marchi fromEnel X Italia Srl (Enel Group), illustrated the areas of intervention in the Municipality of Rimini, together with advantages and savings of the Adaptive Lighting in this case.
For the conclusions of the Final Conference, representatives of other projects were invited, a Networking activity particularly relevant for the success of a project co-financed by European funds. Patrizia Bellucci, ANAS Project Manager, presented the LIFE-Dynamap project developed in Rome and Milan and focused on the acquisition and analysis of environmental noise through the utilization of low-cost sensors able to automatically update acoustic maps in real time. Alessandro Drago, Councillor for Mobility and Community Projects of the IX Town Council of the Municipality of Rome, presented Elviten project, a Horizon 2020 on sustainable mobility with innovative applications for parking and electric charging services. Finally, Katia Raffaelli, Project Manager and officer at Emilia Romagna Region, presented LIFE-PrepAIR, a huge and important project that involved the Regions of the Po Valley to support them in the implementation of Air Quality Plans and measures, foreseen by specific agreements, to be applied on a territory including a large part of Northern Italy.
