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Stratumseind Living Lab — Adaptive Nightlife Lighting

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Since 2014 Eindhoven has run its nightlife street Stratumseind as a living lab: adjustable-colour LED streetlights alongside sound, crowd-count and camera sensors, testing whether lighting changes drinkers' behaviour. Amnesty counted around 32 sensors in and around the street in 2019. The multi-sensor research phase wound down around 2018; a 2022-2023 rebuild laid an underground network and installed ILSE, a narrower five-scenario lighting system developed with a local studio.

Live 📅 since 2014
Outcome📉 Scaled back
Evidence🔬 Peer-reviewed
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Run byGemeente Eindhoven (Municipality of Eindhoven); original 2014-2018 research phase coordinated with DITSS (Dutch Institute for Technology, Safety & Security) and TU Eindhoven's Intelligent Lighting Institute; 2022-2023 ILSE lighting system developed with Het Lux Lab.
Scale🏘️ District
FundingPublic-private partnership between the Eindhoven municipality, police and Stratumseind hospitality/property-owner associations for the 2013-2018 research phase (with TU Eindhoven, Philips and DITSS as technical/knowledge partners); the 2022-2023 street rebuild and ILSE lighting system were procured as ordinary municipal capital works.

📊 Impact

The city's own account, given by the project leader in 2018 and resting on TU Eindhoven research, reported fewer nightlife fights than four years earlier and higher perceived safety — with no figures published. Independent privacy-law scholars examining the same project found no published evidence isolating the adjustable lighting itself, rather than added staff, cameras or other changes, as the cause; the privacy researcher quoted by Amnesty said no outcome data had been shown at all. The peer-reviewed field study run in the lab measured the relationship between a nightlife street's socio-physical context and aggressive behaviour, not the effect of the lights.

🎓 Lesson

A living lab is a research instrument pointed at the public, and the public cannot decline to take part. Eindhoven ran cameras, microphones and colour-changing light on one bar street for years and never published a figure isolating what the light did; what it did publish, through its project leader, was that fights were down — on a street that had also gained staff, cameras and eventually a full rebuild. By the time the legal scholars arrived the question had shifted from whether it worked to whether anyone could consent to it.

📡 Data & IoTSensors & IoTSmart lightingSafety & securityPrivacy & personal data

Sources

↗ Gemeente Eindhoven — Herinrichting Stratumseind (authority, via OpenEindhoven)Redevelopment started March 2022 and was largely complete by 2023, laying a new underground network to control the lamps. The page carries no publication date.
↗ Gemeente Eindhoven — 'Eindhoven test slimme openbare verlichting in de binnenstad' (authority, via OpenEindhoven)Published 20 June 202220 June 2022: two ILSE (Intelligent Licht Systeem Eindhoven) prototype fixtures installed on Stratumseind and the Demer, developed with the Eindhoven studio Het Lux Lab; the effect of light scenarios could not be tested with two fixtures and was deferred to the end of 2023, once the rebuild and the underground network were finished.
↗ Eindhoven Design District — ILSE project page (design partner)Published 8 August 2022ILSE 'prototyped in 2022 and executed in 2023', deployed on Stratumseind, Demer and Rechtestraat with five light scenarios.
↗ TU Eindhoven Cursor — 'Lichtproject De-escalate Stratumseind van start' (authority/academic)Published 9 January 20159 January 2015: adjustable-colour and adjustable-intensity LED lighting installed by TU/e, Philips and the municipality, with a two-year test period and police-data evaluation announced.
↗ Security Management — 'Living Lab Stratumseind: leefbaar, attractief en veilig' (trade press)Published 27 September 201627 September 2016: the Living Lab physically started in early 2014 from De Oude Rechtbank, run by the municipality and DITSS.
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↗ Security Management — interview with project leader Tinus Kanters (trade press)Published 13 March 201813 March 2018: project leader Tinus Kanters cites TU Eindhoven research finding fewer fights than four years earlier and higher visitor-perceived safety; no figures are given.
↗ Kalinauskaitė et al., Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, 2018 (independent, peer-reviewed)Published 13 February 2018TU/e field study on the relationship between the socio-physical context of a nightlife setting and aggressive behaviour, conducted in the Living Lab; Scandinavian Journal of Psychology 59(2), 223-235.
↗ Galič & Gellert, Computer Law & Security Review 40 (2021) (independent, peer-reviewed)Published April 2021'Data protection law beyond identifiability? Atmospheric profiles, nudging and the Stratumseind Living Lab', Computer Law & Security Review 40, article 105486 — legal-scholarship critique of the profiling and nudging approach.
↗ Amnesty International, 'Wordt Vervolgd' magazine, Nov 2019 (independent press)Published 1 November 2019November 2019: around 32 sensors measuring and recording everyone entering the street; privacy scholar Maša Galič states no outcome data was shown that the lighting itself reduced aggression, and the sound sensor cannot yet tell an enthusiastic stag party from a fight.

📅 How old is the evidence?

Two clocks, kept apart: when this entry’s sources were published, and what has happened to its record in the atlas. Documented span: since 2014. 8 of 9 sources carry a publication date, from 9 January 2015 to 8 August 2022.

When the sources were published

  1. Cursor (Technische Universiteit Eindhoven) · pressTU Eindhoven Cursor — 'Lichtproject De-escalate Stratumseind van start' (authority/academic)
  2. Security Management · pressSecurity Management — 'Living Lab Stratumseind: leefbaar, attractief en veilig' (trade press)
  3. Wiley · researchKalinauskaitė et al., Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, 2018 (independent, peer-reviewed)
  4. Security Management · pressSecurity Management — interview with project leader Tinus Kanters (trade press)
  5. Amnesty International Nederland · ngoAmnesty International, 'Wordt Vervolgd' magazine, Nov 2019 (independent press)
  6. ScienceDirect (Elsevier) · researchGalič & Gellert, Computer Law & Security Review 40 (2021) (independent, peer-reviewed)
  7. Gemeente Eindhoven · city governmentGemeente Eindhoven — 'Eindhoven test slimme openbare verlichting in de binnenstad' (authority, via OpenEindhoven)
  8. Eindhoven Design District · ngoEindhoven Design District — ILSE project page (design partner)

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Since 2014 Eindhoven has run its nightlife street Stratumseind as a living lab
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What the mapping says
Security Management, 27 September 2016: the Living Lab physically started in early 2014, run from De Oude Rechtbank by the municipality and DITSS.
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No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Security Management — 'Living Lab Stratumseind: leefbaar, attractief en veilig' (trade press)
Claim 2 clm-927b00541939e1ba descriptive
adjustable-colour LED streetlights alongside sound, crowd-count and camera sensors
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What the mapping says
TU/e Cursor, 9 January 2015, describes adjustable-colour and adjustable-intensity LED lighting installed by TU/e, Philips and the municipality; Amnesty describes sensors measuring and recording everyone who comes to the street, including a sound sensor.
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No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. TU Eindhoven Cursor — 'Lichtproject De-escalate Stratumseind van start' (authority/academic)
  2. Amnesty International, 'Wordt Vervolgd' magazine, Nov 2019 (independent press)
Claim 3 clm-09fc12f0579dd607 quantitative
Amnesty counted around 32 sensors in and around the street in 2019
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What the mapping says
Amnesty International: 'hangen er vandaag de dag in en rond het Stratumseind zo'n 32 sensoren die van alles meten en registreren over iedereen die er komt'.
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No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Amnesty International, 'Wordt Vervolgd' magazine, Nov 2019 (independent press)
Claim 4 clm-6712ffc20c3d3ec2 quantitative
a 2022-2023 rebuild laid an underground network and installed ILSE, a narrower five-scenario lighting system developed with a local studio
Published field
snippet · verbatim
Mapping
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What the mapping says
The municipality's redevelopment page dates the rebuild to March 2022 and a new underground network to control the lamps; its June 2022 news item names ILSE, developed with the Eindhoven studio Het Lux Lab; Eindhoven Design District records ILSE 'prototyped in 2022 and executed in 2023' with five light scenarios.
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No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Gemeente Eindhoven — Herinrichting Stratumseind (authority, via OpenEindhoven)
  2. Gemeente Eindhoven — 'Eindhoven test slimme openbare verlichting in de binnenstad' (authority, via OpenEindhoven)
  3. Eindhoven Design District — ILSE project page (design partner)
Claim 5 clm-775f6764672a0e72 quantitative
The city's own account, given by the project leader in 2018 and resting on TU Eindhoven research, reported fewer nightlife fights than four years earlier and higher perceived safety — with no figures published
Published field
impact · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says
Security Management's 13 March 2018 interview with project leader Tinus Kanters cites TU Eindhoven research finding fewer fights than four years earlier and higher visitor-perceived safety, without giving figures.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Security Management — interview with project leader Tinus Kanters (trade press)
Claim 6 clm-361f40e63a6afa0b descriptive
Independent privacy-law scholars examining the same project found no published evidence isolating the adjustable lighting itself, rather than added staff, cameras or other changes, as the cause
Published field
impact · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says
Galič and Gellert's study of the Stratumseind Living Lab in Computer Law & Security Review examines the profiling and nudging approach and identifies no published evidence attributing an effect to the lighting alone.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Galič & Gellert, Computer Law & Security Review 40 (2021) (independent, peer-reviewed)
Claim 7 clm-4fa621ffac2eefbc descriptive
the privacy researcher quoted by Amnesty said no outcome data had been shown at all
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impact · verbatim
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What the mapping says
Amnesty International quotes privacy scholar Maša Galič to the effect that no outcome data was shown demonstrating that the lighting itself reduced aggression.
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No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Amnesty International, 'Wordt Vervolgd' magazine, Nov 2019 (independent press)
Claim 8 clm-65ae2a19f1560be4 descriptive
The peer-reviewed field study run in the lab measured the relationship between a nightlife street's socio-physical context and aggressive behaviour, not the effect of the lights
Published field
impact · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says
Kalinauskaitė, Haans, de Kort and IJsselsteijn, 'Atmosphere in an urban nightlife setting: A case study of the relationship between the socio-physical context and aggressive behavior', Scandinavian Journal of Psychology 59(2), 223-235.
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No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Kalinauskaitė et al., Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, 2018 (independent, peer-reviewed)
Claim 9 clm-a885eff0c144642e descriptive
never published a figure isolating what the light did
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What the mapping says
The project leader's 2018 account gives no figures, and the legal scholarship examining the project identifies no published evidence attributing an effect to the lighting alone.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Security Management — interview with project leader Tinus Kanters (trade press)
  2. Galič & Gellert, Computer Law & Security Review 40 (2021) (independent, peer-reviewed)
Claim 10 clm-a2c0175d056c98bf descriptive
on a street that had also gained staff, cameras and eventually a full rebuild
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lesson · verbatim
Mapping
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What the mapping says
Amnesty describes about 32 sensors measuring and recording visitors; the municipality's page records the 2022-2023 redevelopment of the street itself.
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No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Amnesty International, 'Wordt Vervolgd' magazine, Nov 2019 (independent press)
  2. Gemeente Eindhoven — Herinrichting Stratumseind (authority, via OpenEindhoven)
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Operator
Gemeente Eindhoven (Municipality of Eindhoven); original 2014-2018 research phase coordinated with DITSS (Dutch Institute for Technology, Safety & Security) and TU Eindhoven's Intelligent Lighting Institute; 2022-2023 ILSE lighting system developed with Het Lux Lab.
Actor types
city-government
Funding model
mixed
Funding description
Public-private partnership between the Eindhoven municipality, police and Stratumseind hospitality/property-owner associations for the 2013-2018 research phase (with TU Eindhoven, Philips and DITSS as technical/knowledge partners); the 2022-2023 street rebuild and ILSE lighting system were procured as ordinary municipal capital works.
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9 source dossiers

Gemeente Eindhoven — Herinrichting Stratumseind (authority, via OpenEindhoven) openeindhoven.nl · 2 linked claims

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Redevelopment started March 2022 and was largely complete by 2023, laying a new underground network to control the lamps. The page carries no publication date.

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Gemeente Eindhoven — 'Eindhoven test slimme openbare verlichting in de binnenstad' (authority, via OpenEindhoven) openeindhoven.nl · 1 linked claim

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20 June 2022: two ILSE (Intelligent Licht Systeem Eindhoven) prototype fixtures installed on Stratumseind and the Demer, developed with the Eindhoven studio Het Lux Lab; the effect of light scenarios could not be tested with two fixtures and was deferred to the end of 2023, once the rebuild and the underground network were finished.

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Eindhoven Design District — ILSE project page (design partner) eindhovendesigndistrict.com · 1 linked claim

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2022-08-08
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ILSE 'prototyped in 2022 and executed in 2023', deployed on Stratumseind, Demer and Rechtestraat with five light scenarios.

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TU Eindhoven Cursor — 'Lichtproject De-escalate Stratumseind van start' (authority/academic) cursor.tue.nl · 1 linked claim

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9 January 2015: adjustable-colour and adjustable-intensity LED lighting installed by TU/e, Philips and the municipality, with a two-year test period and police-data evaluation announced.

Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked
Security Management — 'Living Lab Stratumseind: leefbaar, attractief en veilig' (trade press) securitymanagement.nl · 1 linked claim

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2016-09-27
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2026-08-10
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27 September 2016: the Living Lab physically started in early 2014 from De Oude Rechtbank, run by the municipality and DITSS.

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Security Management — interview with project leader Tinus Kanters (trade press) securitymanagement.nl · 2 linked claims

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2018-03-13
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13 March 2018: project leader Tinus Kanters cites TU Eindhoven research finding fewer fights than four years earlier and higher visitor-perceived safety; no figures are given.

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Kalinauskaitė et al., Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, 2018 (independent, peer-reviewed) onlinelibrary.wiley.com · 1 linked claim

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TU/e field study on the relationship between the socio-physical context of a nightlife setting and aggressive behaviour, conducted in the Living Lab; Scandinavian Journal of Psychology 59(2), 223-235.

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Galič & Gellert, Computer Law & Security Review 40 (2021) (independent, peer-reviewed) sciencedirect.com · 2 linked claims

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'Data protection law beyond identifiability? Atmospheric profiles, nudging and the Stratumseind Living Lab', Computer Law & Security Review 40, article 105486 — legal-scholarship critique of the profiling and nudging approach.

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Claims linked
Amnesty International, 'Wordt Vervolgd' magazine, Nov 2019 (independent press) amnesty.nl · 4 linked claims

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November 2019: around 32 sensors measuring and recording everyone entering the street; privacy scholar Maša Galič states no outcome data was shown that the lighting itself reduced aggression, and the sound sensor cannot yet tell an enthusiastic stag party from a fight.

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1001 Smart Cities (2026). “Stratumseind Living Lab — Adaptive Nightlife Lighting” — Eindhoven, Netherlands. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/eindhoven-stratumseind-living-lab/ (last verified 2026-08-10). Data: CC BY 4.0.

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