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Innovative laboratories
Our dedicated team of technicians and engineers virtually simulates and stresses the environments where the products will be installed, analyzing their behavior and effects.
It's the ultimate test for every component, where monsoon rain, salt fog, mechanical shocks, electrical stress, and other intensive treatments reproduce in just a few hours the effects of decades of operation on structures and equipment. The tests involve lighting fixtures, light sources, and surface coatings.
IP Test
It's a safety test on the luminaires' housing. This test determines the degree of resistance to water ingress and takes place in a controlled temperature environment, according to EN60598-2-3 and EN60598-1 standards.
QUV Test
This is a performance test related to protective coatings. The test involves exposure to fluorescent UV lamps and water. The aesthetic characteristics are evaluated both in the initial state and after accelerated cyclic ageing using UV-A or UV-B radiation and condensation, in accordance with ISO 11507. The comparison is carried out through both a preliminary visual inspection and instrumental testing, to determine the colour difference (ISO 7724) and gloss index.The testing equipment is located in a dedicated area that requires specific infrastructure, such as a water purification system.
IK Test
It's a safety test on the luminaires' housing. The test determines the degree of resistance to external mechanical impact and takes place in a controlled temperature environment. The reference standard is the EN62262.
Duration Test
It's a safety test on lighting fixtures, to determine their resistance to cyclic heating and cooling under operating conditions. The test takes place in a controlled temperature environment at 35° C. Its purpose is to check that the lighting fixture characteristics do not change over time. The applicable standards are EN 60598-2-3 and EN 60598-1.
Heating Test
This is a safety test for lighting fixtures; it verifies the achievement of critical temperatures for safety during normal or abnormal operation. Lighting devices are tested to assess their thermal, mechanical, and electrical safety, in accordance with the harmonized product standards under the LVD directive, EN 60598-2-3 and EN 60598-1. Safety tests on LED modules are also carried out here, in compliance with product standard EN 62031. LED modules are generally tested as integrated components of the lighting fixture. These tests are conducted in climate-controlled environments at a constant temperature.
Goniophotometer Test
It's a performance test on lighting fixtures and light sources. A mirror goniophotometer is used to determine performance, light output (LOR [%]), efficacy (η [lm / W]) and luminous intensity distribution in accordance with EN 13032-1 and UNI 11365. The room where the test equipment is located is air conditioned with constant temperature, humidity and air speed.
Integrating Sphere Test
This is a performance test for lighting fixtures and light sources. The performance of lamps and LED modules - including luminous flux degradation, efficacy, and chromatic characteristics - is evaluated here. The room housing the spectroradiometer, which detects the colorimetric properties of light sources, is climate-controlled but without temperature regulation.
Salt Spray Test
This is a performance test related to surface treatments. Paints and other types of protective surface coatings are tested to determine their corrosion resistance through accelerated ageing in a neutral salt spray, in accordance with ISO 9227.
Lamps Aging Test
This is a performance test for lighting fixtures and light sources. The performance of lamps and LED modules - including luminous flux degradation, efficacy, and chromatic characteristics - is evaluated in this context. The room is climate-controlled, but without temperature regulation. This test is performed to verify and measure the ageing of light sources. The applicable standard is EN 13032-1.
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Light room
It's our most striking and technologically advanced test setup - a sort of wind tunnel, where it's light that blows.
Our Light Room is a space where clients and designers can fully explore the potential of every new idea, right down to the level of comfort it offers a driver or a pedestrian walking along a hypothetical seafront.
All of this is made possible through the realistic and immersive experience of a custom-built simulator.
It's a valuable asset for every project, and is often requested by universities and technical institutes to carry out highly specific tests and reconstructions, experiments that would otherwise be impossible to conduct anywhere else in Europe.
Lighting Schemes Simulation
The street-like environment allows for the simulation of a real-world installation, replicating pole spacing and the proportional geometry of an actual road layout. These features enable accurate assessment of ground-level lighting effects, thanks also to a porous surface that mimics real asphalt. During the test, visitors can physically walk through the lighting design and experience the results firsthand. On the large screen, it's possible to observe the correlation between calculated data (spots and isolux diagrams) and the actual lighting scenario.
Visual comfort test
The installation of lighting fixtures on poles, with a specific spacing between them, allows for the evaluation of the visual comfort offered by Neri's optical systems and, if needed, a direct comparison with those of competitors. This is a factor that can only be partially perceived through standard simulations or photometric calculations, but can be fully appreciated only through real-life experience. The human eye remains the ultimate and only tool capable of truly assessing the visual comfort of a light source.
Lighting Quality test
Lighting quality can be fully measured in a laboratory, but the most accurate perception of light color can only come from real-life experience. LEDs, in particular, are light sources whose color can vary noticeably depending on the emission angle. As a result, one might be surprised to observe that LED installations can produce areas on the ground with different color tones, some appearing slightly bluish or greenish compared to others. This visual test enables the evaluation and selection of the most suitable light sources and optical systems, those that truly meet the highest standards of lighting quality.
Product development
The creation of a product is not a linear process, but rather a multidimensional, shared activity. Sometimes it begins with a new technology, other times with a designer's intuition.
Innovation gradually takes shape, and the idea is prototyped, tested, engineered, and finally industrialized to meet commercial goals.
The expertise of the Fondazione, the testing in the Laboratories, the simulations in the Light Room, the material experiments, and the technological partnerships all contribute to the right mix of skills and actions needed to bring a new product to market.
