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What Dimonoff has been doing since 2015.
Announcements, events and short technical notes, kept as a full archive rather than trimmed to the recent few. Every post links back to its original source.
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Dimonoff to Exhibit at Smart Cities Connect Fall 2024 in Austin
Dimonoff exhibited at Smart Cities Connect Fall 2024 in Austin, Texas, showcasing its streetlight conversion project with Pittsburgh and dynamic parking signage deployment in Laval, Quebec.
Read moreDimonoff to Receive Sustainable Smart City Award in Bangkok
Dimonoff will receive the Sustain Asia Energy Award 2024 at SustainAsia Week in Bangkok, Thailand, recognizing its sustainability and innovation in smart streetlight and parking management systems for cities.
Read moreDimonoff's Lamontagne to Chair Intelligent Cities Summit
Dimonoff Vice President Jostran Lamontagne chaired the 8th annual Intelligent Cities Summit in Detroit, moderating city spotlight panels while Dimonoff exhibited its smart lighting and parking management solutions.
Read moreDimonoff to Exhibit at Smart Cities Connect Spring 2024
Dimonoff will showcase its smart streetlight control and smart parking management systems at Smart Cities Connect Spring 2024 in Raleigh, North Carolina, from May 7 to 10, 2024.
Read moreBrigitte Baril joins Dimonoff to boost business development
Dimonoff welcomed Brigitte Baril as Business Development Director for Smart City Solutions, bringing 30 years of experience in manufacturing and lighting, including eight years focused on smart cities and intelligent lighting for U.S. municipalities.
Read moreDimonoff to showcase smart lighting and parking at 2024 MMA show
Dimonoff announced its participation in the 45th Massachusetts Municipal Association Annual Meeting and Trade Show in Boston, showcasing its smart street lighting control system and smart parking management solution at booth 217.
Read moreDimonoff spotlighted in the Global Smart Street Lighting Market report
IoT analyst firm Berg Insight featured Dimonoff as a major player in the second edition of its Global Smart Street Lighting Market report, which includes five-year industry forecasts, case studies, and analysis of the shift toward cellular connectivity.
Read moreDimonoff to exhibit at Smart Cities Connect Fall 2023 in D.C.
Dimonoff announced its participation in the 2023 Smart Cities Connect Fall Conference in Washington, D.C., where it exhibited intelligent lighting and parking solutions and joined a panel on energy, asset management, and sustainability with BrainBox AI and IDC.
Read moreDimonoff gears up for the 2023 IES Street and Area Lighting Conference
Dimonoff announced its participation in the 2023 IES Street and Area Lighting Conference in Indianapolis, part of a trade mission organized by Investissement Quebec, where it highlighted successful smart lighting deployments in Grand Rapids, Cambridge, and Columbus.
Read moreDimonoff to showcase smart lighting at Intelligent Cities Summit
Dimonoff announced its participation in the 7th Annual Intelligent Cities Summit in Toronto, where it exhibited IoT-based smart lighting and parking technology and moderated a panel on defining intelligent cities with municipal leaders from Nanaimo and Toronto.
Read moreGrand Rapids launches smart street lighting project with Dimonoff
The City of Grand Rapids, Michigan partnered with Dimonoff to install 18,037 wireless smart control nodes on streetlights, creating a connected network for remote monitoring, real-time control, and proactive maintenance managed through the Dimonoff | SCMS platform.
Read moreSmart poles to illuminate Water Street Tampa, Florida
Dimonoff is deploying smart lighting poles at the 56-acre Water Street Tampa urban development in partnership with fixture manufacturer Lumca, using its nodes to dynamically adjust brightness and cut energy waste.
Read moreDimonoff to Attend Smart Cities Connect Spring 2023 Denver
Dimonoff attended the Smart Cities Connect Spring Conference & Expo in Denver, Colorado, in May 2023, showcasing smart lighting and parking control systems alongside partner LED Supply Co.
Read moreInside the Smart Cities Evolution: A Conversation with Dimonoff's CEO
In this interview, Dimonoff founder and CEO Bernard Têtu shares his views on what defines a truly smart city, current trends in municipal technology, the obstacles slowing adoption, and what he expects from smart cities over the next ten years.
Read moreDimonoff to Exhibit at the 2022 IES Street & Area Lighting Conference
Dimonoff took part in the 2022 IES Street and Area Lighting Conference in Dallas, Texas, October 10-13, as a member of the Investissement Québec International delegation, showcasing its smart street lighting control solution.
Read moreDimonoff to Exhibit at Smart Cities Connect Fall 2022, DC
Dimonoff took part in the 2022 Smart Cities Connect Fall Conference & Expo in Washington, D.C., September 26-29, where Vice President Jostran Lamontagne joined a panel discussing Dimonoff's smart street lighting project in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Read moreDimonoff to Exhibit at the 2022 UMQ Assises in Quebec City
Dimonoff took part in the 100th edition of the Union des municipalités du Québec Assises conference in Quebec City, May 12-13, 2022, presenting its smart lighting control and intelligent parking management technologies at booth #28.
Read moreDimonoff to Exhibit at Smart Cities Connect Spring 2022 in Columbus
Dimonoff announced it would exhibit at booth #108 during the Smart Cities Connect Spring Conference & Expo in Columbus, Ohio on April 5-6, 2022, highlighting its ongoing smart street lighting project with the city.
Read moreColumbus, Ohio launches smart street lighting project with Dimonoff
Columbus City Council approved a construction contract with Complete General Construction Company and Dimonoff to convert about 2,500 high-pressure sodium streetlights to smart LED fixtures in the Linden neighborhood.
Read moreUniversal Power Supply: One Module for All Configurations
Dimonoff engineered a universal power supply module for its lighting control system, operating across 100 to 527 volts at 50 or 60 Hz, replacing six separate voltage-specific products with a single universal one.
Read moreDimonoff to speak at the Smart City Lighting Summit 2021
Dimonoff Vice President Daniel Noiseux presented at the virtual Smart City Lighting Summit 2021 on August 25, discussing mesh networking for IoT communications and how Dimonoff approaches large-scale, centralized city lighting projects.
Read moreCould Cell Coverage in Your City Effectively Manage Your Lighting?
Dimonoff's Daniel Noiseux argues that relying solely on cellular coverage to manage a city's smart lighting system leaves gaps and future obsolescence risks, making wireless mesh networks a more reliable and cost-effective backhaul choice.
Read moreUnderstanding the Smart City Market: A White Paper
Dimonoff's white paper on the smart city market maps out its five vendor categories and lays out core features, interoperability and future readiness as the key criteria for choosing a system.
Read moreThree Pilot Projects in Mexico for Dimonoff
Dimonoff partnered with Mexico's National Commission for the Efficient Use of Energy to deploy three smart street lighting pilot projects across Ciudad Juárez, Tlaltenango and Guadalajara over a twelve-month period starting in 2021.
Read moreDimonoff to sponsor the 5th Annual Intelligent Cities Summit
Dimonoff announced its sponsorship of the virtual 5th Annual Intelligent Cities Summit 2021, hosted by the City of Mississauga from May 26 to 28, where its team was available to demonstrate IoT solutions and connected products to attendees.
Read moreDimonoff named a finalist at the Mercuriades 2021 awards
Dimonoff was named a finalist in the Technological Innovation TELUS category at Quebec's 2021 Mercuriades business awards, recognized for its smart parking management platform.
Read moreHow Dimonoff Aims to Redefine the Smart Lighting Industry
Dimonoff shares how its Dimonoff | SCMS platform, developed over 15 years, positions the company among the top 5 smart street lighting leaders worldwide, powering projects in Montreal, Mississauga, and Laval.
Read moreA new smart street lighting network for the City of L'Assomption
The City of L'Assomption modernized its street lighting with 679 new LED fixtures and Dimonoff's wireless SCMS control system, saving an estimated $44,378 a year in energy and maintenance.
Read moreLaval selects Dimonoff for its streetlight conversion project
The City of Laval approved a 3-year, $34.5 million project to convert 37,000 street light fixtures to LED with a smart control system, with Dimonoff and Pierre Brossard Ltée as the selected implementers.
Read moreDimonoff Has Moved to a New Quebec City Headquarters
After more than a decade at two previous Quebec City locations, Dimonoff moved its headquarters to the Henri-IV Business Center, Tower A, reflecting the company's continued growth and its strategic merger with Amotus.
Read moreOne company, one vision: Dimonoff and Amotus announce their merger
Dimonoff announced the consolidation of Amotus, the custom IoT engineering company it acquired in 2018, under the Dimonoff brand, integrating its engineering team into Dimonoff's product development capacity.
Read moreAsset Monitoring, at the Speed of Light
Dimonoff explains why fast network response time matters for asset monitoring, showing how its platform delivers live status and energy data, quicker anomaly detection, and configuration updates completed in hours rather than days.
Read moreDimonoff | SCMS Now Supports MQTT
Dimonoff added MQTT support to its Dimonoff | SCMS platform, giving system administrators a new way to publish live field data, such as asset location, light levels, alarms, and maintenance status, to an MQTT broker for easier third-party integration.
Read morePharos DMX Controllers Integrated Into Dimonoff | SCMS
Dimonoff integrated Pharos Lighting Playback Controllers into its Dimonoff | SCMS platform, allowing users to trigger Pharos Designer scenes and control architectural and entertainment lighting alongside standard street and area lighting.
Read moreDimonoff | SCMS Now Available on Microsoft Azure Marketplace
Dimonoff | SCMS is now available as a self-serve application on Microsoft Azure Marketplace, automatically provisioning an instance into a customer's Azure subscription within about an hour, ahead of Dimonoff receiving login credentials from customer service.
Read moreDimonoff's RME node redesigned: universal power, multi-radio support
Dimonoff unveiled the RME, a redesigned wireless smart lighting control node with universal power compatibility, DALI dimming, a more powerful firmware architecture, and support for multiple radio technologies.
Read moreDimonoff launches a redesigned website
Dimonoff launched a redesigned website built as a simple, informative and professional platform giving municipal and commercial visitors easier access to its smart lighting, mobility and IoT solutions.
Read moreDimonoff's new sales director brings his expertise to the team
Dimonoff appointed Jostran Lamontagne as Sales Director in late June 2020, bringing a mechanical engineering background, an MBA, and varied cross-industry experience to the role.
Read moreWhy Would You Choose Mesh Networking?
Founding President Bernard Têtu explains why mesh networking, where every node can act as a repeater, suits urban IoT deployments, citing its ability to overcome obstacles, extend gateway range, cut infrastructure costs, and self-heal automatically.
Read moreFuture Readiness in Smart City Systems, Part 3 of 3: Software
The final part of Bernard Têtu's series on future readiness looks at how software scalability, open APIs, easy updates and security determine a smart city system's staying power.
Read moreFuture Readiness in Smart City Systems, Part 2 of 3: Network
The second part of Bernard Têtu's series on future readiness examines how connectivity standards and network bandwidth choices affect a smart city system's long-term value.
Read moreFuture Readiness in Smart City Systems, Part 1 of 3: Hardware
The first part of Bernard Têtu's three-part series on future readiness in smart city systems examines how street lighting hardware, sensors and firmware should be built to last.
Read moreOpenness in Smart City Systems
Bernard Têtu explores why openness in hardware, network connectivity and software is a critical criterion for cities choosing a smart lighting and IoT platform.
Read moreKey criteria to choose a smart city system
Founding President Bernard Têtu sets out three criteria for municipalities evaluating smart city systems: core lighting and monitoring features, interoperability and openness across hardware, network, and software, and readiness for future scale.
Read moreThe needle in the smart city haystack
Founding President Bernard Têtu maps the fragmented smart city vendor landscape into five categories, from hardware makers to all-in-one system suppliers, and argues cities should favor layered, open architectures built for future technologies.
Read moreIlluminate Your Multi-Story Infrastructure the Smart Way
Dimonoff added floor plan management to its SCMS platform, letting building and parking managers control lighting on every level with schedules, motion sensors and daylight-based scenarios.
Read moreSolving Today's Pressing Issues: A Technological Answer
Bernard Têtu argues that as urban populations grow toward 66% of the world by 2050, smart city technology, particularly connected street lighting, offers a practical way to cut costs and improve services.
Read moreOur cities are getting smarter
Founding President Bernard Têtu argues that connected technology helps cities respond to challenges like climate change and public health emergencies, from automated street lighting and snow removal to emergency response and environmental monitoring.
Read moreIntroducing the Power of Visual Data Aggregation
Dimonoff | SCMS version 20 adds visual data aggregation, clustering map icons and adapting detail by zoom level so cities can manage deployments beyond the 70,000-device limit most browsers can handle.
Read moreDimonoff and Sesco Lighting partner to grow smart lighting in the USA
Dimonoff Inc. announced a partnership appointing Sesco Lighting as its exclusive sales representative across fifteen offices in Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, Mississippi, and the Caribbean.
Read moreA City or a Smart City: Is This Smart?
Dimonoff looks at the three hallmarks of a smart city: IoT-connected waste and environmental monitoring, automated smart buildings, and renewable energy adoption.
Read moreHow Smart Can Your City Become? All Eyes on Singapore
Dimonoff explores how Singapore, a leading smart city, uses technologies like electrode-based desalination, soil-free indoor farms, delivery drones, and blockchain banking to boost efficiency, self-sufficiency, and citizen services.
Read moreDimonoff's perspective on creating the smart cities of the future
Dimonoff shares its perspective on a PwC report about the smart cities of the future, affirming a citizen-centered, cautious approach to adopting new municipal technologies.
Read moreComment: How Should CSPs Exploit the Smart Streetlight Opportunity?
Dimonoff comments on a Gartner report showing CSPs are partners in only 16% of smart city streetlight projects, arguing platforms must stay vendor-agnostic and support multiple networks.
Read moreThe Biggest Smart Street-Lighting Deployments: A Rough Guide
Enterprise IoT Insights compiled a ranked, imperfect list of the world's biggest smart street-lighting deployments, placing Dimonoff's Montreal (250,000 units) and Quebec projects among the top five worldwide.
Read moreThe Future of Intelligent Cities Powered by Azure IoT
Dimonoff details its partnership with Microsoft Azure, using the Azure IoT Hub and Microsoft's global data centers and partner network to scale its smart city management systems worldwide.
Read moreDimonoff and Wirepas collaborate to make cities smarter
Wirepas, a decentralized wireless mesh provider, and Dimonoff formed a partnership integrating Wirepas Mesh technology into Dimonoff's Smart City Management System to deliver an end-to-end SCADA solution for IoT applications.
Read moreDimonoff named key player in the Smart City Industry Awards
Technology Headlines magazine recognized Dimonoff among the 10 fastest growing smart city solution providers to watch in 2018, citing its innovative products and customer relationships.
Read moreDimonoff: Spearheading a New Revolution
Founding President Bernard Têtu looks back at Dimonoff's evolution from a streetlight control specialist into a full smart city IoT platform provider, marked by the March 2018 launch of the open SCMS Connect{ED} software architecture.
Read moreMontreal Smart Street Lighting Wins Smart Cities 50 Award
Montreal's smart street lighting initiative, which modernized 132,500 LED fixtures under Dimonoff's SCMS platform, won the Energy category at the Smart Cities 50 Awards in Kansas City.
Read moreDimonoff and Shawinigan win the LSNetwork Award
Dimonoff and the City of Shawinigan received the LSNetwork Canadian Lighting Technology of the Year award for a street lighting system that also integrates sewer-level sensors.
Read moreDimonoff selected for Montreal's smart streetlight project
Dimonoff and its consortium partners were awarded a $28 million contract to convert more than 135,000 Montreal light fixtures into a connected smart lighting network, with Dimonoff's SCMS platform unifying multiple hardware vendors under one interface.
Read moreDimonoff CEO Bernard Têtu to speak at Australian Smart Lighting Summit
Dimonoff CEO Bernard Têtu spoke at the 3rd Annual Australian Smart Lighting Summit, held September 8-9, 2015 at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre.
Read moreNew Truly Universal Power Supply in Dimonoff Products
Dimonoff introduced its C136-41 photocell control module featuring a truly universal power supply that operates from 100 to 527 Volts while drawing less than 1 watt, simplifying installation worldwide.
Read moreDimonoff to exhibit at Smart City Expo Montreal 2015
Dimonoff exhibited at booth 207 of Smart City Expo Montreal, held March 25-27, 2015 at the Palais des congrès, showcasing its street lighting control and asset management platform.
Read moreDimonoff finalist for the Sapphire Awards and Illumineer of the Year
Dimonoff was named a finalist in the Smart SSL Technology category and for the inaugural Illumineer of the Year Award, with the gala held February 25, 2015 in Las Vegas.
Read moreElster Solutions teams with Dimonoff for smart street lighting
Elster Solutions, a Smart Grid and Energy Management leader, signed a resale agreement for Dimonoff's wireless lighting control and monitoring platform, rebranding the offering Elster Lighting Intelligence (ELI).
Read moreHow many LEDs does it take to change a city's streetlights?
The City of Mississauga, through Enersource, converted 49,000 streetlights to LED technology, a project projected to cut energy consumption by 55 percent and maintenance costs by half while extending fixture lifespan to two decades.
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