Founded in Quebec City in 2006 by Bernard Têtu, Dimonoff has grown from a company remotely controlling street lights into a broader smart city platform provider. Têtu traces the turning point to 2012, when Dimonoff “entered the industry’s major leagues” with a deployment for the City of Mississauga, followed by projects such as the 135,000-fixture LED conversion in Montreal and a sewage-monitoring deployment in Shawinigan. The company’s footprint has since extended across Canada, the United States, South America, and Oceania.
In March 2018, Dimonoff launched SCMS Connect{ED}, an open software architecture designed to bring multiple third-party lighting control systems, including Current by GE Lightgrid, Telematics Wireless T-Light, and Honeywell EnergyAxis Netsense, under a single management interface. The platform is built as a scalable, cloud-based service with customizable dashboards and real-time alerts, and is designed with an intuitive interface that requires little to no training for municipal operators.
Beyond lighting, Têtu describes the public lighting network as a natural backbone for additional smart city services, from digital signage and motion sensors to sewage-level monitoring, acoustic detection, license plate recognition, and cameras. He positions this open, layered approach as the foundation for cities to progressively add new connected applications without replacing existing infrastructure.