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The City of Columbus, Ohio to Start New Lighting Project Powered by Dimonoff
The Columbus City Council has officially approved a construction contract with Complete General Construction Company and Dimonoff for the implementation of a smart lighting project in the Linden neighbourhood, Ohio.
The pilot phase of this project will replace a first batch of approximately 2,500 high-pressure sodium lights with energy-saving LED streetlights. In addition, Dimonoff have been mandated to install smart lighting nodes on top of each luminary which allows the city to remotely access, monitor and control their entire lighting system, and in real time.
“They will have a photocell that will operate the light, but with the communication network they will also work to notify the Division of an outage,” said George Zonders, spokesman for the city Department of Public Utilities. “Additionally, we will be able to control individual lights with the central control system, meaning we could turn lights on or off from the office.”
In addition to their lighting purpose, these nodes could also provide the city with future smart infrastructure capabilities including sound recognition, gas detection, air quality control and connection of cameras that could monitor streets and sidewalks.
“Our Dimonoff | SCMS Urban Asset Management Platform is highly versatile and would allow the City of Columbus to integrate several mobility and security systems into a single state-of-the-art and highly scalable data management system, thus expanding the city’s technological development” said Bernard Têtu, president of Dimonoff.
In total, the City Public Utilities Department will invest a total of $892,250 from the city Division of Power with the first lights having been already replaced in late June 2021. An official timeline for the rest of the project is yet to be confirmed. With this project, the City Council hopes the lights will increase residents’ sense of safety and deter crime in the neighbourhood.
About Dimonoff
For more than 15 years, Dimonoff has established itself as a reliable provider of connected solutions as well as a committed partner, facilitating the implementation of IoT for smart cities and infrastructure. Dimonoff works closely with public and private sector managers, to guarantee the full implementation of largely scalable smart solutions. Listed among the five main players in the smart street lighting management and control markets, Dimonoff’s expertise resulted in the completion of more than 325 projects in 6 countries (including two of the five largest street lighting projects in the world) with sales exceeding 400,000 products, thus contributing to the development of smart cities. In addition to its solutions, Dimonoff also offers customized IoT services in electronics and software development with expertise in wireless, cloud computing, embedded systems and Linux.
