Columbus City Council approved a construction contract with Complete General Construction Company and Dimonoff to bring smart street lighting to the Linden neighborhood. The pilot phase replaces roughly 2,500 high-pressure sodium fixtures with LED streetlights fitted with Dimonoff’s wireless smart control nodes, backed by an $892,250 investment from the city’s Division of Power. Initial fixture replacements began in June 2021.
Each node includes a photocell to operate the light and a communication network that notifies the city’s Division of Public Utilities of outages. “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 Columbus’s Department of Public Utilities. He added that operators can turn individual lights on or off remotely from a central office system.
Beyond illumination, the nodes are designed to support future smart infrastructure applications such as sound recognition, gas detection, air quality monitoring, and camera connections for street and sidewalk surveillance. Bernard Têtu, Dimonoff’s President, noted that the Dimonoff | SCMS Urban Asset Management Platform “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.”
City officials expect the project to improve residents’ sense of safety in the neighborhood alongside the direct benefits of energy-efficient, remotely managed lighting.