The situation
Sterling Ranch is a planned smart-home community in an area exposed to Colorado’s wildfires, floods and severe weather. Reaching residents outdoors during an emergency, before they check a phone app, meant either building new infrastructure or finding a way to use infrastructure the community already had on every street.
What was deployed
Dimonoff and Siemens co-developed CitySafe, a wireless audio-visual mass notification system, and built it into Sterling Ranch’s Dark Sky-compliant streetlight network rather than as a separate system of poles. Each fixture combines a Dimonoff RME wireless lighting node with an RGB beacon and a pole-mounted speaker, so the same streetlight that dims automatically to 50% at 10 p.m. and switches off at sunrise can also carry a verbal emergency broadcast, a colour-coded visual alert, and severe-weather notifications relayed from public safety agencies.
Why it matters for your network
Sterling Ranch is the notification-on-lighting case: a community that got a second, safety-critical system for the marginal cost of adding a beacon and speaker to fixtures it was installing anyway, rather than the full cost of a standalone notification network. If your city already has, or is planning, a wireless-controlled lighting network, CitySafe is what that network can carry beyond light.