Smartnodes

What Smartnodes does

Smartnodes is a product brand under LACROIX Environment, the environmental infrastructure division of privately held French technology company LACROIX Group (HQ Saint-Herblain, France). The brand delivers connected street lighting management systems for European municipalities and local governments, with a stated Belgian origin (Liège, founded 2014) and a very small standalone team of 1-10 employees. Its core offering is the Tegis modular and scalable platform, which supports three deployment modes — cabinet-level management, individual light point management, or a hybrid of both — enabling municipalities to optimize energy use through dimming profiles, presence detection, and proactive fault detection.

The product portfolio spans hardware and software. Hardware includes cabinet controllers, light point controllers, gateways, extension modules, drivers, local management modules, detectors/sensors, and junction boxes and accessories; on the software side, a centralization and supervision platform provides global network monitoring, fault detection, and intervention management across deployed lighting assets. Use cases emphasize selling the public lighting network as 24/7 power supply infrastructure for adjacent services such as CCTV and seasonal decorations, framing the deployment as a smart-city backbone rather than a point lighting control system.

Commercially, Smartnodes runs a sales-led go-to-market targeting municipalities and local governments with a 360-degree support structure: project studies and monitoring, commissioning assistance, a direct technical hot-line, technical customer service, and training programs. Revenue is generated through hardware sales of controllers, modules, drivers, and accessories, augmented by professional services revenue tied to deployment and ongoing support. Pricing is quote-based and not publicly disclosed. The brand disclosed a single early funding round of approximately $2.17M from Qbic Fund in 2016, and marketing reach extends across English, French, German, Spanish, and Italian-speaking European markets via the lacroix-environment.com digital presence.

Name

Smartnodes

Legal name

LACROIX Group

Website

https://smartnodes.be

Company type

Private

Founded year

2014

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Smartnodes is the smart street lighting brand of LACROIX Environment (LACROIX Group), offering the Tegis modular platform of controllers, sensors, gateways, and supervision software to European municipalities for connected public lighting management and energy optimization.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Smart Public Lighting Control Systems

NAICS

Electric Lighting Equipment Manufacturing (33513), Automatic Environmental Control Manufacturing for Residential, Commercial, and Appliance Use (334512), Switchgear and Switchboard Apparatus Manufacturing (335313)

SIC

Electric Lighting & Wiring Equipment (3640), Industrial Instruments For Measurement, Display, And Control (3823)

akta.pro primary industry

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

akta.pro secondary industries

Lighting Controls & Smart Lighting Systems (BPABAGAC), Smart Outdoor Lighting Controls (Timers/Photocells/Wi‑Fi) Setup (HSAIAHAH), Smart Lighting & Shading Systems (HSAPAPAC)

Keywords

• Smart street lighting
• Public lighting control
• Connected lighting systems
• Light point controllers
• Smart city infrastructure

Headquarters

HQ city

Liège

HQ country

Belgium

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Smart Lighting Hardware Products: Sale of connected street lighting control products including cabinet controllers, light point controllers, junction boxes, drivers, local management modules, detectors, sensors, and accessories. Products support gradual smart lighting deployment with modular expansion.
2. Customer Support and Professional Services: 360-degree customer support including project studies and monitoring, commissioning assistance, technical hot-line, direct technical support, and training programs for smart lighting systems.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Smartnodes designs and sells a connected smart public lighting management system built on the Tegis modular platform. Its portfolio includes cabinet controllers, individual light point controllers, gateways, extension modules, detectors and sensors, drivers, junction boxes, and a Centralization and Supervision software platform that supports cabinet-only, light point–only, or hybrid deployments for municipal street lighting.

Product overview

Smartnodes offers a comprehensive smart street lighting management portfolio centered on the Tegis modular platform. The solution provides three management approaches: cabinet control for central ON/OFF switching and monitoring, light point management for individual luminaire control with dimming profiles, and hybrid configurations combining both. Products include cabinet controllers, light point controllers, extension modules, gateways, junction boxes, drivers, and a centralization/supervision platform. The ecosystem enables energy optimization through adaptive lighting, proactive maintenance via fault detection, and use of the public lighting network as a 24/7 power supply for third-party services.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Tegis: Modular and scalable smart public lighting management solution featuring cabinet control, light point management, or hybrid approaches.

Products and services

• Tegis Modular Smart Lighting Platform Modular and scalable smart public lighting management solution offering cabinet control, light point management, or hybrid configurations for current and future intelligent street lighting requirements; targeted at municipalities and local governments.
• Cabinet Controllers Devices installed in control cabinets enabling central management of ON/OFF luminaire switching times, monitoring of cabinet malfunctions, and analysis of power consumption for municipal street lighting.
• Light Point Controllers Individual luminaire controllers enabling precise, dynamic control of light intensity with customizable dimming profiles based on time of night and presence detection, with proactive fault detection.
• Cabinet Extension Modules Extension modules that expand cabinet controller capabilities for combined cabinet and light point management configurations.
• Gateways Communication devices enabling connectivity between light point controllers and the central management system for network integration.
• Junction Boxes and Accessories Installation components and accessories for street lighting infrastructure wiring and connectivity.
• Centralization and Supervision Platform Central management software platform providing global network monitoring, fault detection, and intervention management across all connected lighting assets.
• Drivers and Local Management Modules Local control modules managing individual luminaire operations and integrating with dimming profiles.
• Detectors and Sensors Presence detectors and sensors detecting visitor numbers and environmental conditions to enable adaptive lighting adjustments.

Quantifiable outcome

• Substantial energy savings through 'right light at right time' dynamic dimming approach
• +1 more outcomes

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature5 records

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• Signify: Global lighting leader (formerly Philips Lighting) offering the Interact City connected street-lighting platform. Comparable because it directly targets municipal smart-lighting buyers with networked controls, sensors, and a central management software suite, but at vastly greater scale and with bundled luminaire offerings.
• Itron: Utility and smart-city infrastructure provider offering networked streetlight controls alongside metering and grid solutions. Comparable because it sells centralized lighting management platforms to municipalities and utilities, but operates at much larger scale across the broader smart-city stack.
• Acuity Brands: Large North American lighting and controls company offering networked outdoor lighting controls (DTL/ROAM) alongside a broad luminaire portfolio. Comparable in outdoor networked lighting controls but operates at much larger scale and with bundled luminaire sales.
• Schréder: European outdoor lighting manufacturer with the EXEDRA control platform for connected street lighting. Comparable as a European municipal lighting-controls provider, but with a stronger luminaire-manufacturing base and broader global footprint.
• Sensus (Xylem): Utility infrastructure vendor (now part of Xylem) offering smart streetlight and city-network solutions integrated with metering and grid applications. Comparable in municipal smart-infrastructure selling motion, though broader in scope than Smartnodes' lighting-focused portfolio.

Direct peers

• Telensa: Specialist in smart street lighting and smart-city data with a wireless, city-owned network architecture for per-luminaire control. Directly comparable to Smartnodes' light-point management and central supervision approach, focused on the same municipal buyer.
• CIMCON Lighting: Provider of smart streetlight controls including per-luminaire controllers, gateways, and central management software for municipal customers. Directly comparable to Smartnodes' Tegis architecture and serves the same public-sector outdoor-lighting niche.
• Tvilight: Dutch specialist in wireless smart street-lighting controls with presence-detection and central management software. Comparable because it targets European municipalities with motion-based dimming and networked controllers — a near-identical value proposition to Smartnodes.
• Flashnet (NOWATT): Provider of the inteliLIGHT smart street-lighting control system with cabinet and light-point controllers, sensors, and a CMS platform. Directly comparable as a niche competitor offering essentially the same three-architecture (cabinet/light-point/hybrid) approach to municipalities.

Emerging players

• Ubicquia: Provider of smart-city IoT modules that plug into existing streetlight infrastructure, including lighting control, air quality, and video analytics. Comparable in the public lighting-control niche but with a stronger emphasis on plug-and-play retrofit and broader smart-city sensors.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Subsidiaries2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors1 record

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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