CIMCON Lighting

About CIMCON Lighting

CIMCON Lighting, founded in 2012 by Anil Agrawal, established itself as a developer of intelligent wireless outdoor lighting control systems. The company's genesis is tied to Agrawal's background in the industrial automation and controls industry, where he identified a significant opportunity to apply wireless technology to create smarter, more efficient municipal infrastructure. This vision led to the development of a hardware and software platform designed to help cities and utilities manage their street lighting infrastructure more effectively.

The core of CIMCON's business was providing solutions for the smart city market. Its target clients included municipalities, utilities, and large-scale campus environments that manage extensive networks of streetlights. The business model centered on the sale of hardware, specifically streetlight control nodes, and recurring revenue from a cloud-based central management software platform. This platform allowed clients to remotely monitor, schedule, and control individual or groups of streetlights, leading to significant energy savings and reduced maintenance costs.

CIMCON's flagship product was its 'NearSky' platform, which went beyond simple lighting control. This platform featured a 7-pin NEMA-compliant controller that could be installed on streetlights. A key differentiator of the NearSky platform was its ability to serve as a hub for various smart city sensors and applications. It included a built-in microprocessor and memory, allowing it to collect and process data from attached devices like air quality sensors, traffic monitors, and public safety cameras. This effectively transformed a simple streetlight into a data-gathering point for the urban environment, offering benefits such as improved public safety, optimized traffic flow, and environmental monitoring. In a significant strategic move, CIMCON Lighting was acquired by Quantela, Inc., a specialist in urban infrastructure automation, in August 2021. This acquisition integrated CIMCON's lighting control and smart city hardware capabilities into Quantela's broader portfolio of urban digital infrastructure solutions.