Deep integration of industry, academia and research, jointly building an innovative source of urban light environment
On July 1, 2026, Nuoer Intelligent Technology Group and Tongji University's School of Architecture and Urban Planning held a grand unveiling ceremony at the Siping Road campus in Shanghai, officially establishing the 'Urban Light Environment Joint Laboratory'. This laboratory is an important practical carrier for both parties to implement the national 'dual carbon' strategy and the deployment of green and low-carbon city construction in the '14th Five Year Plan' for new urbanization. It marks a new stage of systematic and interdisciplinary research and technology transformation in the field of coordinated development of landscape greening and landscape lighting in China.
Focusing on the three core technological directions, consolidating the scientific foundation of ecological lighting
Guided by solving common industry problems, the Joint Laboratory has established three key research tasks in the first batch: firstly, to construct a localized plant spectral response model, based on multi-dimensional data of photosynthesis morphology rhythm of typical trees, shrubs, and ground cover plants in the Yangtze River Delta, to quantify the impact threshold of different wavelength bands (380-780 nm) of light on plant growth cycle, flowering regulation, and nighttime physiological inhibition; The second is to develop low impact development (LID) oriented lighting embedding technology, which integrates landscape lighting devices with LID facilities such as rain gardens, permeable pavements, and ecological grass ditches for structural design and synergistic optimization of light effects, achieving functional superposition and spatial intensification; The third is to establish a carbon neutral oriented landscape lighting energy efficiency evaluation system, integrating full lifecycle carbon emission accounting (including manufacturing, installation, operation, and demolition stages), photobiological safety assessment, and nighttime ecological disturbance index, to form a quantifiable, comparable, and verifiable technical standard framework.
Promoting the Upgrading of Landscape Lighting Paradigm: From Visual Expression to Ecological Collaboration
Traditional landscape lighting has long focused on aesthetic expression and node reinforcement, which can easily lead to light pollution, energy waste, and interference with ecological processes such as insect migration and bird navigation. Our laboratory is committed to promoting a dual leap in industry awareness and practice - with 'ecological lighting' as the underlying logic, landscape greening as the fundamental element and regulating medium of light environment design, making the lighting system a positive variable to enhance green space carbon sequestration capacity, enhance biodiversity support function, and reduce urban heat island effect. In the next three years, the laboratory will conduct empirical demonstrations in typical urban renewal scenarios such as Shanghai Lingang New Area and Suzhou Industrial Park to verify the feasibility and promotion value of the coupling regulation path of 'plants light microclimate carbon flow'.
Strengthen the trusted construction of E-E-A-T and create a benchmark for high-level light environment laboratories
Relying on Tongji University's national level platforms and faculty in fields such as landscape architecture, architectural optics, and sustainable urban design, as well as Nuoer Intelligent Technology's industries in smart lighting control systems, spectrum adjustable LED modules, digital twin light environment simulation platforms, etc
