Cimcon Lighting: Enabling Intelligent Wireless Lighting Control
One of the most remarkable and high-cost infrastructure assets owned by municipalities and utilities is Outdoor lighting, which often consumes up to half a city’s total budget. Today, since governments across the globe are facing public and regulatory pressure to become more energy efficient, they are finding lighting as an area that can help in delivering immediate benefits with the help of the Internet of Things (IoT). Therefore, many city councils are already replacing traditional luminaries with more energy efficient lighting systems.This is where smart and connected street lighting systems come into the picture. These systems are widely accepted as the foundation for smart cities. Modernizing traditional streetlights with LED luminaries provides immediate energy savings while adding intelligent controllers to streetlights allows cities to further reduce energy consumption. Intelligent controllers allow cities to digitally manage their streetlight assets using central management software, which provides additional benefits such as lower ongoing maintenance costs, fewer customer complaints and shorter repair times.
Perfectly understanding these requirements, Burlington, Massachusetts, United States headquartered CIMCON Lighting helps its clients achieve these benefits with its intelligent, wireless lighting controllers. These controllers help in reducing energy, repairs and maintenance costs all the while increasing the quality of lighting services. CIMCON controllers can be easily installed on LED, solar and HID based lamps in a matter of minutes. The controllers transform traditional streetlights into a self-healing wireless mesh communications network that spans cities, campuses and facilities. CIMCON’s monitoring and management software uses this network to monitor the streetlight status in real-time and allows to control the streetlights without having to visit the light pole.
Cimcon lighting has the largest installation base in India with more than 10 smart cities for smart street lighting controls
Bringing about efficiency
CIMCON through its comprehensive solutions and products for smart cities enables cities to leverage their existing streetlight infrastructure to become more efficient for citizens and businesses. The company also tailors configurations according to the customers’ specific smart solution, IT infrastructure and data needs.
CIMCON is a leader in providing scalable open protocol wireless control systems and has around 30 years of experience in implementing Industrial control systems in harsh environments. The company has the largest installation base in India with more than 10 smart cities for smart street lighting controls. In use at more than 150 cities worldwide, CIMCON Lighting’s intelligent, wireless lighting controllers are the market leaders.
Intelligent Smart City Platform
CIMCON with its intelligent smart city platformNearSkyTM helps governments in building digital, data driven cities by deploying sensors, cameras and other smart devices. Data can be easily collected from these devices, analyzed and processed completely through the comprehensive back end data storage capabilities, analysis tools and APIs provided by this platform.
“What differentiates NearSkyTM from the rest is its capability to turn any city’s existing streetlight infrastructure into a flexible, reliable and secure digital canopy that can span the city and serve as an internet of Municipal Things (IoMT),” says Anil Agrawal, CEO, CIMCON Lighting.
NearSkyTM offers standard based communication channels, power for devices and plug & play connectors with an aim to simplify the installation, maintenance and movement of diverse smart city devices. This ultimately helps in eliminating the expense and efforts of building any additional networks. The NearSkyTM platform can be used to deploy a variety of sensors, cameras and devices to help cities digitize and improve their operations. This includes solutions for air quality, digital signage, EV charging, parking, pedestrian analytics, public safety, public Wi-Fi, Smart street lighting, sound analytics, road surface Management, Traffic analytics and waste management. Three main components of NearSkyTM include NearSkyTM 360, NearSkyTM StreetVibeTM, NearSky- TM Connect and an additional Software Development kit that consists of a collection of development tools for accessing the data collected by the NearSkyTM platform, for developing applications that use the data.
The NearSkyTM platform includes a streetlight mounted data hub that captures, aggregates and distributes data from a wide array of sensors and devices. This platform also includes cloudbased management software, which allows cities to securely organize, monitor and remotely manage devices at scale throughout their life cycle. Lastly, the NearSkyTM platform provides power, processing and communication allowing its partners’ devices to seamlessly connect to its easy to use smart city management component –StreetVibeTM.
Smart city data hub and edge processor
CIMCON’s NearSkyTM 360 is a simple plug and play device that transforms existing street light infrastructure into robust Internet of Outdoor things for smart city devices and services. This device reduces the cost and complication of smart city application deployment by providing power, edge processing, metering and communications.
NearSkyTM is easy to install with an ANSI C136.41 compliant 7-pin connector at the base and ANSI compatible 7-pin receptacle at the top. This device can be mounted below a CIMCON intelligent lighting controller for a compact profile and ease of maintenance. NearSkyTM 360’s Powerful processor with ample internal memory provides support for extensive complex inputs. It provides flexible communication capabilities such as Wi-Fi, Bluetooth or cellular as wireless options and wired communications through Ethernet, USB and RS-485.
Web-based Central Management and Control Software
Gone are the days of uncertain asset statuses and the inability to control the city’s lighting. With CIMCON’s LightingGaleTM system, cities can now have a complete unconstrained control over their lighting infrastructure. LightingGaleTM is CIMCON’s web-based central management and control software that works in tandem with CIMCON’s lighting controllers to help cities, town, municipalities, parking garages, retail malls, colleges and business campuses easily control their lighting fixtures to reduce energy, maintenance and repair costs. This system provides users with robust capabilities such as scheduling, dimming, Health monitoring, asset management and fault monitoring and can be accessed from any browser easily.
CIMCON Lighting provides products and services that deliver measurable value, creates solutions that work in multiple network environments, protects today’s investments while building “plug & play” modules that are compatible with existing installations while providing new features and benefits, and enables integration with best in class third party solutions with its street lighting network.
One stop shop for smart city needs
Every city has its own and unique challenges when it comes to developing into a smart city. This is why CIMCON has created CIMCON NearSkyTM Connect, a one stop shop for smart city needs. NearSkyTM Connect lets cities customize their solutions by choosing from a suite of third party applications. NearSkyTM Connect customizes the smart city applications with modular and mobile applications while reducing deployment costs and total cost of ownership. Not only is CIMCON committed to build a successful ecosystem by connecting leaders and sharing ideas in all areas of the smart city field, it is also helping its customers and partners stay ahead of their competitors in the market.
Multi-Domain Expertise
The CIMCON team is spread across the globe in multi-locations with multi-domain expertise. It comprises experts in the hardware and software development, programming and designing mobile applications. Particularly, the marketing and sales teams are effectively expanding the market reach, and are helping in obtaining insight into customer needs that are incorporated in new product development. CIMCON also provides field support with its experienced technical and commissioning team. The 24/7 technical support center working across time zones ensures fail safe operation of systems deployed.
CIMCON not only provides Smart Lighting solutions but it also provides Smart Water Management & Smart Systems in the Oil & Gas sector in the selected geographies. Currently, the company is in the process of developing new smart city applications and services for various cities across the country. CIMCON’s Asia Pacific headquarters based at Ahmedabad, India has been executing projects and providing support and in the space of Smart Lighting, Smart Water Management & Smart Systems in the Oil & Gas sector since several decades.
In India, under the Smart City Initiative, CIMCON has successfully implemented Smart Street Light Controllers in more than 10 Smart Cities says Prashant Pandey, GM (Business Development), India.
Smart streetlights are now well on their way to forming the backbone canopy of “complete smart city initiatives”, says Suraj Gupta, Director, CIMCON India.
Smart city data hub and edge processor
CIMCON’s NearSkyTM 360 is a simple plug and play device that transforms existing street light infrastructure into robust Internet of Outdoor things for smart city devices and services. This device reduces the cost and complication of smart city application deployment by providing power, edge processing, metering and communications.
NearSkyTM is easy to install with an ANSI C136.41 compliant 7-pin connector at the base and ANSI compatible 7-pin receptacle at the top. This device can be mounted below a CIMCON intelligent lighting controller for a compact profile and ease of maintenance. NearSkyTM 360’s Powerful processor with ample internal memory provides support for extensive complex inputs. It provides flexible communication capabilities such as Wi-Fi, Bluetooth or cellular as wireless options and wired communications through Ethernet, USB and RS-485.
Web-based Central Management and Control Software
Gone are the days of uncertain asset statuses and the inability to control the city’s lighting. With CIMCON’s LightingGaleTM system, cities can now have a complete unconstrained control over their lighting infrastructure. LightingGaleTM is CIMCON’s web-based central management and control software that works in tandem with CIMCON’s lighting controllers to help cities, town, municipalities, parking garages, retail malls, colleges and business campuses easily control their lighting fixtures to reduce energy, maintenance and repair costs. This system provides users with robust capabilities such as scheduling, dimming, Health monitoring, asset management and fault monitoring and can be accessed from any browser easily.
CIMCON Lighting provides products and services that deliver measurable value, creates solutions that work in multiple network environments, protects today’s investments while building “plug & play” modules that are compatible with existing installations while providing new features and benefits, and enables integration with best in class third party solutions with its street lighting network.
One stop shop for smart city needs
Every city has its own and unique challenges when it comes to developing into a smart city. This is why CIMCON has created CIMCON NearSkyTM Connect, a one stop shop for smart city needs. NearSkyTM Connect lets cities customize their solutions by choosing from a suite of third party applications. NearSkyTM Connect customizes the smart city applications with modular and mobile applications while reducing deployment costs and total cost of ownership. Not only is CIMCON committed to build a successful ecosystem by connecting leaders and sharing ideas in all areas of the smart city field, it is also helping its customers and partners stay ahead of their competitors in the market.
Multi-Domain Expertise
The CIMCON team is spread across the globe in multi-locations with multi-domain expertise. It comprises experts in the hardware and software development, programming and designing mobile applications. Particularly, the marketing and sales teams are effectively expanding the market reach, and are helping in obtaining insight into customer needs that are incorporated in new product development. CIMCON also provides field support with its experienced technical and commissioning team. The 24/7 technical support center working across time zones ensures fail safe operation of systems deployed.
CIMCON not only provides Smart Lighting solutions but it also provides Smart Water Management & Smart Systems in the Oil & Gas sector in the selected geographies. Currently, the company is in the process of developing new smart city applications and services for various cities across the country. CIMCON’s Asia Pacific headquarters based at Ahmedabad, India has been executing projects and providing support and in the space of Smart Lighting, Smart Water Management & Smart Systems in the Oil & Gas sector since several decades.
In India, under the Smart City Initiative, CIMCON has successfully implemented Smart Street Light Controllers in more than 10 Smart Cities says Prashant Pandey, GM (Business Development), India.
Smart streetlights are now well on their way to forming the backbone canopy of “complete smart city initiatives”, says Suraj Gupta, Director, CIMCON India.