What Intelight does

Intelight is a privately held Canadian company headquartered in Mississauga, Ontario, that designs and markets a converged intelligent LED lighting fixture combining illumination, adaptive control electronics, embedded audio/video AI analytics, and integrated meshed communication radios (WiFi and 3G/4G/LTE/5G cellular extension) into a single modular device. Its product platform is organized around four pillars: an LED Light base (including an 8th-generation ultra-efficient streetlight and UVC-enabled fixtures for sterilization and horticultural use), an Advanced Intelligence module providing facial recognition, weapon discharge detection, keyword/voice detection, conflict detection, crowd analytics, license plate recognition, and body-temperature monitoring, an Adaptive Control module offering dynamic dimming, stagger start, predictive maintenance, and environmental sensing, and an Integrated Communication module delivering meshed WiFi and cellular extension for IoT connectivity.

The company sells hardware (modular LED fixtures) bundled with end-to-end professional services — design, manufacturing, implementation and ongoing support — and offers managed network/connectivity services as part of deployment. Pricing is custom quote-based on deployment scope under multi-year contracts, with no publicly disclosed pricing; the website directs prospects to a sales contact rather than a self-serve funnel, consistent with an enterprise and government field-sales motion. Intelight markets its platform across 18+ verticals including safe cities, transportation, banking, healthcare, education, critical infrastructure, corrections, stadiums, casinos, data centers, and law enforcement, but no named customers, contract values, or revenue figures are disclosed. The company reports 1-10 employees, was first publicly visible in 2020, and raised approximately $1.83M across two June 2021 rounds from Arrow ECS, Microsoft, and Ontario's Autonomous Vehicle Innovation Network (AVIN).

Name

Intelight

Legal name

Intelight

Website

https://intelight.ca

Company type

Private

Founded year

2020

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Intelight is a Canadian private company (Mississauga, Ontario; 1-10 employees) that builds a converged intelligent LED lighting fixture integrating adaptive control, multimodal audio/video AI analytics, and meshed WiFi and cellular communications, sold via custom multi-year contracts to municipalities, governments, and enterprises across safe-city, transportation, healthcare, and critical-infrastructure verticals.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Smart Lighting / IoT Infrastructure Hardware

NAICS

Commercial, Industrial, and Institutional Electric Lighting Fixture Manufacturing (335132)

SIC

Electric Lighting & Wiring Equipment (3640)

akta.pro primary industry

Lighting Controls & Building Integration (Drivers, sensors, dimming, lighting control panels, networked lighting) (IMAGAIAI)

Keywords

• Smart LED lighting
• IoT infrastructure
• Adaptive lighting control
• Urban intelligence systems
• Converged communications lighting

Headquarters

HQ city

Mississauga

HQ country

Canada

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Supply Chain, Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Hardware Sales (LED Fixtures): Sale of converged LED light fixtures incorporating lighting, adaptive control, audio/video intelligence and communication modules; positioned as a modular, upgradeable platform customers procure to replace existing inefficient lighting.
2. Professional Services (Design, Implementation & Support): End-to-end design, manufacturing, implementation and ongoing support of converged technology, wireless and lighting equipment for customers, leveraging 25+ years of operational experience.
3. Managed Network / Connectivity Services: Provision of redundant meshed WiFi networks and cellular (3G/4G/LTE/5G) extension as a built-in capability of the lighting fixture, generating potential connectivity-related revenue in deployments.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Core offering

Intelight designs, manufactures, and sells a converged intelligent LED light fixture that integrates LED illumination, adaptive control, embedded audio/video AI intelligence, and meshed wireless communications into a single modular device. The platform is sold to municipalities, governments, and large enterprises as an IoT and smart-city infrastructure replacement for fragmented lighting and sensor deployments, with variants including an 8th-generation ultra-efficient streetlight and UVC-enabled fixtures for sterilization and horticulture.

Product overview

INTELIGHT is offered as a single unified product — an intelligent LED light fixture — rather than a separate platform with bolted-on modules. That said, its architecture is built around four integrated pillars that map cleanly to named feature modules: the LED Light (the foundational lighting platform, including the 8th generation ultra-efficient streetlight and UVC-enabled variants), the Advanced Intelligence module (AI-driven audio/video analytics such as facial recognition, weapon discharge detection, keyword detection, conflict detection, crowd analytics, license plate recognition, and voice recognition), the Adaptive Control module (dynamic dimming, stagger start, IoT integration, asset tracking, advanced motion detection, predictive maintenance, scheduling/automation, and air quality/temperature monitoring), and the Integrated Communication module (meshed networking for IoT/smart devices, cellular extension across 3G/4G/LTE/5G, cloud access, and WiFi hotspots). COVID-19 enhancements — Social Distancing Monitoring and Body Temperature Monitoring — were added on top of this unified fixture. The design intent is to eliminate fragmented infrastructure by converging lighting, sensing, control, and communications into one modular, upgradeable device deployed across retail, transportation, banking, safe cities, critical infrastructure, government, education, healthcare, industrial, casino, commercial, hospitality, corrections, stadiums, data centers, and law-enforcement environments.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• INTELIGHT Intelligent Lighting Platform Unified intelligent LED lighting platform that converges LED lighting, adaptive control, advanced audio/video intelligence, and integrated meshed communications into a single light fixture, eliminating the need for multiple disjointed infrastructures. Designed as a modular system for smart cities, safe cities, and IoT-enabled deployments across retail, transportation, banking, healthcare, government, education, and other verticals.
• INTELIGHT 8th Generation Ultra-Efficient Streetlight Latest iteration of INTELIGHT's ultra-efficient LED streetlight fixture, evolved to take advantage of improved efficiencies, lifespans, and overall performance as the foundational lighting platform on which INTELIGHT runs.
• INTELIGHT UVC Enabled Light Fixtures UV-spectrum light fixtures that evolve traditional UV light sources and deliver UVC through convenient, efficient, long-lasting LED technologies, targeted at sterilization and horticultural applications.

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability11 records

Feature15 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Broad incumbents

• Itron: Itron sells smart infrastructure solutions including networked streetlight controls (SLV) to utilities and cities. It overlaps Intelight's adaptive-control and city-connectivity use cases but as a large, diversified smart-infrastructure incumbent.
• Acuity Brands: Acuity Brands offers DTL® and Atrius™ smart lighting/IoT platforms for cities, parking, and commercial spaces. Comparable because it sells connected luminaires plus IoT controls to municipalities and large enterprises, but as a much larger, multi-brand incumbent.
• Signify (Philips Lighting): Signify is the global leader in connected LED lighting (Interact City) with broad municipal and commercial deployments. It competes with Intelight on networked streetlighting but as a much larger, multi-product incumbent rather than a niche specialist.
• GE Current, a Daintree company: GE Current sells intelligent LED lighting solutions and Daintree controls to commercial and industrial customers. It is a broad incumbent comparable to Intelight's adaptive-control-and-illumination converged fixture, but at far greater scale and with broader portfolio coverage.
• Cisco Smart+Connected Communities: Cisco's Smart+Connected Communities portfolio bundles networking, video, and IoT for city-scale deployments. It overlaps Intelight's converged-fixture-plus-communications model where cities want a single integrated platform, but Cisco is a broad incumbent with a much wider portfolio.

Direct peers

• Quantela: Quantela offers a smart-city platform that ingests data from street-level IoT devices (lighting, traffic, environmental, video) for municipal customers. It is comparable because, like Intelight, it sells city operators a converged street-level data/control stack rather than a single-purpose product.
• DimOnOff: DimOnOff is a Canadian smart streetlight and IoT control provider serving North American cities. It is directly comparable as a smaller North-America-based competitor selling connected LED fixtures plus IoT/adaptive control software to municipal buyers.
• TVILIGHT: TVILIGHT is a Dutch vendor of smart streetlight management and city IoT platforms with sensor integrations. It is comparable because it bundles LED lighting control with motion/air-quality/surveillance sensors sold to cities as a unified smart-city platform.
• Telensa: Telensa sells networked LED streetlight controls and smart-city data services to municipalities worldwide. It is the closest direct peer because, like Intelight, it uses the streetlight as the platform for additional smart-city services (asset management, air quality, parking) on top of lighting.
• Echelon Corporation (smart lighting): Echelon has historically sold smart streetlight control networks (LumInsight) and edge-IoT platforms to utilities and cities. It is directly comparable as a focused streetlight-IoT vendor targeting the same municipal buyers Intelight pursues.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds2 records

Investors3 records

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M&A

Investments

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