PHILADELPHIA, May 23, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- CIMCON, the
leading global provider of smart city solutions, including outdoor
lighting management systems, earned top recognition from one of the
lighting industry's most prestigious award programs: The LFI
Innovation Awards® 2019. At Tuesday's award breakfast, CIMCON's
NearSky smart city platform was named the winner in the Controls:
Components, Sensors, Interfaces and Software category.
Judged by an independent panel of esteemed lighting and industry
professionals, The LFI Innovation Awards recognize the best
innovations from more than 500 of the world's leading manufacturers
across the lighting industry.
"This recognition from LFI reflects our commitment to continuous
innovation in the controls and smart city space," said Mobeen Khan, Chief Operating Officer at CIMCON.
"Winning this Best of Category award and being joined here at
LIGHTFAIR by our customers Syracuse and our host city, Philadelphia, underscores our commitment to
offering customers great technology and services that are
redefining what it means to be a smart city."
The city of Philadelphia has
deployed CIMCON smart city technologies on Arch Street in front of
the Pennsylvania Convention
Center, where the technology will be on display to LIGHTFAIR
attendees. CIMCON, CDW-G, Cisco, and the city of Philadelphia, held a press conference in
CIMCON's booth on May 22.
On May 21 at the LFI Live stage,
CIMCON welcomed Rebecca Klossner,
from the city planning division in Syracuse, who presented, "Using
Lighting to Surge Syracuse, NY
Forward" at LIGHTFAIR. She described Syracuse Surge and the city's
approach of using CIMCON's smart city solutions to digitize their
city.
CIMCON's NearSky™ is a revolutionary new platform to transform
existing streetlight infrastructure into a digital canopy™ that
covers your entire city and provides an Internet of Outdoor
Things.
To run your own smart city pilot,
visit https://www.cimconlighting.com/streetvantage-smart-city-pilot-program.
About CIMCON Lighting
With a heritage of over 25
years of innovation and experience in industrial automation and
outdoor wireless applications, CIMCON provides the most proven and
most complete smart city solutions to global cities and
utilities. The company is the world's leading provider of
scalable, intelligent wireless outdoor lighting management
solutions for traditional, LED and solar-based street lights, and
the company's smart city platform provides an easy way to deploy,
manage and maintain smart city devices and applications. Focused on
offering solutions that provide the lowest "Lifecycle Cost of
Ownership," CIMCON provides hardware and software technologies that
allow cities and utilities to monitor, maintain and in many cases,
monetize their assets and other devices on or near the light pole.
CIMCON's "Just in Time Lighting™," reduces energy, maintenance and
repair costs while improving the quality of lighting services and
enabling the path to a smart city. For more information please
visit www.cimconlighting.com.
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