A smart lighting network design for urban rehabilitation and environmental sustainability: A case study of Bagheria M. Bonomolo DEIM-Dipartimento dell’Energia dell’Ingegneria dell’informazione e dei Modelli matematici Università degli Studi di Palermo, Viale delle Scienze, Bldg. 9, 90128, Palermo, Italy email: marinabonomolo@gmail.com M. Beccali * , A. Galatioto DEIM-Dipartimento dell’Energia dell’Ingegneria dell’informazione e dei Modelli matematici Università degli Studi di Palermo, Viale delle Scienze, Bldg. 9, 90128, Palermo, Italy email: marco.beccali@dream.unipa.it email: alessandra.galatioto@dream.unipa.it E. Pulvirenti Studio Triskeles C.da Cammarella snc, Caltanissetta, 93010, Italy email: pulvirenti@studiotriskales.it ABSTRACT The concept of smart cities, smart services, and smart grids has gained wide international attention in the last few years. The case study, Bagheria, Italy, is an urban area where many old buildings from the 18th century exist, hidden by the chaotic growth of the new city.Thus, the present paper addresses a project for lighting a town in Italy that aims to reduce energy consumption by using efficient lamps and control systems, to make the network useful for many purposes by integrating the ICT and to provide a new identity to the older part of the city by using new technologies and design concepts. A brand new multifunctional modular fixture called the StairLight is designed. The results show good energy savings with a commitment to the standard requirements and an improvement in the social and environmental management of the city. KEYWORDS Street lighting, light control system, light design, urbanism, smart lighting. INTRODUCTION “Smart Cities” has become a popular catchphrase to describe a city that wants to increase citizen quality of life, safety and energy savings with intelligent management, active citizen participation and ICT integration. Following this idea, it is necessary to study and research the technological solutions linked to a new type of intelligent technology integration based on an aggregation of modern and traditional functions and new concepts of living and use for the city. The Commission of the European communities often asks public administrations to implement measures and policies to make cities "smarter". To achieve energy savings in Amsterdam (NL), many projects and initiatives were developed. The New Amsterdam Climate is a plan to obtain a 40% reduction of CO2 emissions [1]. Approximately 400 houses, according to the project "West Orange", are supplied with a display control system to show and control energy consumption and to provide careful energy management, eco-saving lighting systems on streets, fuel cell technology in old buildings, and plug-in charging stations SDEWES2014.0226-1