The situation
Karl Chevrolet, the third-largest Chevrolet dealership in the United States, covers 1,307,815 square feet of lot and facility. Constant lamp failures and high energy costs had pushed the dealership to disable half its lights after closing, a workaround that left the lot unevenly lit: bright in some rows, dark in others, and reading as unprofessional and less secure from dusk until dawn.
What was deployed
The dealership converted 316 fixtures to high-performance LED, each fitted with a Dimonoff RME wireless smart lighting node, deployed through a white-label partner rather than sold under the Dimonoff name directly. Instead of switching entire zones off after hours, the lot can now dim uniformly, keeping every row lit at a lower, even level rather than alternating between full brightness and total darkness.
Why it matters for your network
Karl Chevrolet is the large-commercial-lot case: a facility that had already tried the obvious cost-control move, turning half the lights off, and found it made the security and image problem worse, not better. Dimming instead of switching off is the fix when a site’s real complaint is uneven lighting and an unprofessional look at night, not just a power bill.