New Supporter Partners for the LIFE-DIADEME project and new Demonstration Sites

LIFE-DIADEME project is enriched by new Supporters and expands the installation sites of its smart street lighting control systems.
After the Agreement with Rome Capitale and the implementation carried out in the EUR area and in the Pietralata district with, respectively, 722 and 74 Diademe devices, of which 721 Diademe Standard Device, 45 Diademe Air Quality and 30 Diademe LTM, two new Agreements involved the Municipalities of Piacenza and Rimini with the effective collaboration of two international companies such as Citelum SA (EDF Group) and Enel X (Enel Group). Thanks to the positive feedback of the European Commission, they can be counted among the project Supporting Partners.
The Municipality of Piacenza had already adopted, in 2018, a point-to-point remote management and control system, with conveyed waves technology, for the city public lighting systems. Piacenza was an excellent reference for the application of the Adaptive System developed by Diademe project, thus being able to represent a third demonstration site of the project itself.
With the subscription of the necessary documents to ensure the collaboration of the Municipality and the technical partner Citelum SA, manager of the public lighting network, a demonstration site was realized in the semi-central area, suitable for existing traffic conditions, providing the installation of 73 Diademe Standard Device, 2 Diademe Air Quality and 1 Diademe LTM for traffic detection.
The Excellent institutional relations built in the years by Reverberi Enetec, Diademe lead partner, allowed to involve in the project the Municipality of Rimini too.
The agreement signed with the Municipal Administration and Enel Sole, manager of the public lighting network, foresees the installation of 87 Diademe Standard Device, 2 Diademe Air quality Sensors and 1 Diademe LTM for adaptive lighting in a semi-central area of the city deemed appropriate to be considered a demonstration site. This action could also involve further developments.
With a technical collaboration agreement with Reverberi Enetec, Enel X, company of Enel Group dealing with the development of digital and innovative solutions for energy efficiency, put at disposal its expertise providing the installation of all the devices on selected lighting points in Rimini.
By doing so, both the cities involved have been equipped by additional tools towards the realization of Smart City systems: sensors located in strategic areas will provide real time data on traffic, noise and air pollution, while the analysis of the detected and monitored information, will be used to promote the reduction of the environmental impact in urban areas and the improvement of road safety.
Not to mention that, on the basis of the data analyses primarily conducted on the data from the Rome EUR City Capital site, the energy savings obtained from the installed Diademe devices are much greater than those foreseen at the beginning of the project and therefore of considerable interest during the replication phase in Piacenza and Rimini Municipalities.
These actions, not initially planned, if on one hand will have a great value in bringing further confirmations on the quality of the applications conceived and tested by the project, on the other hand demonstrate that LIFE-DIADEME can be already considered a Best Practice for the reduction of energy consumptions, greenhouse gas emissions and costs.
Moreover, the new Supporting Partners, Institutional and Technical ones, will ensure a greater visibility to the project activities developed accordingly and in line with the indication provided by the European Institutions.