Industry publication Enterprise IoT Insights set out to rank the world’s largest smart street-lighting deployments, surveying leading vendors about their biggest installations. The publication was upfront that the exercise was imperfect: some vendors, including Sensus, GridComm, Flashnet, and Rongwen, either questioned its value or simply didn’t respond, while Echelon noted that its indirect sales model made an accurate count difficult.
The resulting list also mixes deployments of very different scales, comparing entire states such as Florida (500,000 units) against individual cities such as Montreal (250,000 units), and even a country-wide rollout in Jamaica (110,000 units). Some infrastructure is shared across multiple suppliers as well, which the authors acknowledged made a clean, apples-to-apples ranking essentially impossible.
Even with those caveats, Dimonoff features prominently in the results: its Montreal deployment ranks second overall with 250,000 units, just behind Florida, and its Quebec deployment, covering over 200,000 fixtures, also places among the leaders. The list notes that Chicago could eventually rank higher once its own 270,000-unit lighting upgrade is complete, underscoring how quickly the rankings are likely to shift as more cities modernize their networks.