Desafios da iluminação pública no Brasil e nova técnica de projetos luminotécnicos fundamentada na fotometria mesópica

Abstract

The street lighting systems in Brazil are going through a time of significant changes that involve new paradigms, challenges and prospects for the sector. These changes begin with the transfer of street lighting assets to municipalities, demanding that municipal managers are prepared and able to manage this essential public service that previously was not your responsibility. In addition, new lighting technologies such as light-emitting diodes (LED) are an alternative to conventional technologies, resulting in many impacts and changes of concepts in the design, management and maintenance of street lighting systems. Thus, this thesis provides an overview of street lighting in Brazil, covering issues relating to the management and maintenance of the system, emphasizing the challenges linked to the transfer of street lighting assets to the municipalities, in addition to the inherent complexity of LED technology. The discussion is organized into two main areas: the management of system, with emphasis on the challenges associated with the transfer of assets; and the consolidation of new technologies, especially the LED. In this context, in order to contribute to a more efficient use of lighting systems, this thesis proposes the consolidation of mesopic photometry in the development of street lighting projects, since in such cases it is common to encounter poor conditions luminance, in which the spectral sensitivity of human vision is different from the conditions in the classical photometry. In this sense, it is covered in detail the CIE 191:2010 technical report, which proposes correction factors for the adaptation of conventional photometric quantities in mesopic quantities. However, to obtain such factors, it is required to obtain the relationship between the scotopic and photopic luminous flux of light source (S/P ratio), which requires special equipment not readily available to most lighting designers. Thus, this PhD thesis proposes a general equation that provides the S/P ratio as a mathematical function of correlated color temperature and color rendering index of the light source, which are information usually available in catalogs of manufacturers or products packaging. The proposed equation showed correlation coefficient and coefficient of determination parameters closed to unity, which guarantees good reliability. By obtaining the S/P ratio with the aid of proposed technique, a typical lighting design has changed his routine, something that is demonstrated and exemplified in final of the text.