BEDFORD, Mass., June 12, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- CIMCON, the
leading global provider of smart city solutions, including outdoor
lighting management systems, today announced the United States
Patent and Trademark Office has awarded the company patent No.
10,238,001 for the NearSky™ smart city platform. The newly issued
patent for a configurable data center platform covers CIMCON's
design of an edge data processor that affixes to streetlight poles
and contains processing systems to communicate with smart city
devices and sensors. This innovative design makes it easy to deploy
and cost-effectively manage smart city IoT solutions.
This new patent extends a string of industry firsts and
innovations from CIMCON lighting as the company continues to invest
in an aggressive product roadmap that is continually bringing new
smart city IoT technologies to market. There is a portfolio of nine
patents now protecting CIMCON's smart city and intelligent lighting
product lines. The extensive portfolio includes protections for the
following essential components of smart city and intelligent
streetlight systems:
- A web-based, wireless streetlight management system, which
allows users to configure and control streetlights using a
map-based graphical interface
- Streetlight controllers that can communicate with the
streetlight and transmit status and identification information
- Remote, computer-based control of streetlights
- A configurable streetlight-based platform that houses one or
more sensors
- The use of intelligent, wireless lighting controls to detect
faults, propose corrective actions
- The use of streetlights for emergency response
"We at CIMCON are passionate about putting technology to work
through innovations that solve the complicated issues faced by
cities across the globe," said Anil Agrawal, CEO of CIMCON. "Our
portfolio of patents is a testament to our unique approach which
takes away complexity for our customers, helps them drive
meaningful improvements while staying within their budget
constraints, and motivates them to keep moving on their smart city
journey one problem at a time."
CIMCON's NearSky smart city IoT platform transforms a city's
existing streetlight infrastructure into a city-wide network of
connected outdoor digital assets – or an internet of outdoor
things. To run smart city pilot with any CIMCON smart city
solution, such as air quality monitoring, people counting, or
vehicle counting, please
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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