Salvi Lighting Barcelona

What Salvi Lighting Barcelona does

Salvi Lighting Barcelona (legal entity CM SALVI S.L.) is a privately held Spanish manufacturer and designer of LED public-lighting infrastructure, headquartered in Lliçà de Vall, Barcelona, with the brand claiming over a century of presence in public lighting and the operating company founded in 1981. The firm designs and produces LED street luminaires (families including Circus, ICE, Kronos, Gota, Town, Visio, Atenea, and Palacio in modern and classic styles), support columns and beacons, and — distinctively — two proprietary smart infrastructure platforms: the Smartec® wireless telemanagement system that turns each fixture into a remotely monitored data node, and the S.I.L. Solar Intelligent Lighting autonomous solar luminaire for off-grid applications. Recent additions include the Safepass pedestrian-crossing optic (2025), Circus S compact luminaire (2025), and ICE S (2024).

The company generates revenue through hardware sales (luminaires, columns, smart-city system components), telemanagement system licensing/services, and project-based professional design services, with no public pricing disclosed. Its go-to-market combines a direct sales force from offices in Spain, Saudi Arabia (Riyadh), UAE (Dubai), Rwanda (Kigali), and China (Suzhou, with manufacturing) with a layered network of named exclusive regional distributors across 50+ countries in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Americas, and Asia. Marketing is anchored on a multilingual website, the config.salvi.es luminaire configurator tool, a newsletter, and active participation in trade shows (Smart City Expo World Congress, Light+Building, Greencities, EFISport).

The customer base is overwhelmingly business-to-government: municipal administrations and engineering consultancies specifying urban lighting projects — reference projects include Las Ramblas and Av. Diagonal in Barcelona, Place centrale in Lyon, Al Janoub Stadium in Qatar, Nanjing in China, Kigali in Rwanda, and a national-scale 100,000-fixture solar deployment in Senegal — with secondary demand from sports/industrial facilities and hospitality/commercial real estate. The firm carries ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certification for Smartec and has received two Solar Impulse Foundation Efficient Solution Labels.

Name

Salvi Lighting Barcelona

Legal name

CM SALVI S.L.

Website

https://salvi.es

Company type

Private

Founded year

1981

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Salvi Lighting Barcelona (CM SALVI S.L.) is a Spanish designer and manufacturer of LED public-lighting luminaires, poles, and the proprietary Smartec® wireless smart-city telemanagement system, serving municipal governments and engineering firms across 50+ countries via direct offices and regional distributors.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

LED Street Lighting & Smart City Infrastructure

NAICS

Commercial, Industrial, and Institutional Electric Lighting Fixture Manufacturing (335132), Electric Lighting Equipment Manufacturing (33513)

SIC

Electric Lighting & Wiring Equipment (3640)

akta.pro primary industry

Outdoor & Area Lighting (Street, Roadway, Parking, Flood, Sports/Architectural exterior) (IMAGAIAB)

Keywords

• LED street lighting
• Public lighting luminaires
• Smart city lighting
• Solar streetlights
• Outdoor urban lighting

Headquarters

HQ city

Barcelona

HQ country

Spain

HQ region

Europe

Offices6 records

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. Street lighting luminaires and columns: Design, manufacture, and sale of LED luminaires and support columns (poles) for public road and urban lighting. Product families include modern and classic designs, solar-powered options, tunnel lighting, sports/industrial, and ornamental luminaires. Revenue is generated through direct sales to municipalities and engineering firms, and via channel partners/distributors.
2. Smart city management solutions (Smartec®): Wireless communication and telemanagement system for city lighting infrastructure. Sold as a standalone system or integrated with luminaires to enable remote monitoring, real-time data collection, and adaptive lighting control. Revenue from system licensing, hardware components, and associated services.
3. Project design and professional services: Custom lighting project design services for municipalities, urban developments, sports facilities, tunnels, and public spaces. Includes technical consulting, photometric studies, and configuration support through the online configurator tool.

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Salvi Lighting Barcelona designs, manufactures and sells LED street lighting luminaires, columns, beacons and accessories for public road and urban lighting applications. Its product portfolio spans modern and classic luminaire families, solar-powered autonomous luminaires (S.I.L.), and the proprietary Smartec® wireless smart city management system that enables remote monitoring, real-time data collection and adaptive lighting control. The company serves municipal governments, engineering firms, sports venues, and hospitality clients in 50+ countries via direct sales offices and an international distributor network.

Product overview

Salvi Lighting Barcelona offers a comprehensive street lighting portfolio centered on LED luminaires and smart city infrastructure. The core product line includes multiple luminaire families (Circus, ICE, Kronos, Gota, Venus, Basic, Metro, Town, Visio, and others) available in both modern and classic styles, complemented by poles and support structures (Atlas, Venus, Ochocentista, Villa) and beacon solutions (Nova). The proprietary Smartec® wireless communication system serves as the smart city management platform, enabling remote control, real-time data collection, and energy optimization across connected lighting networks. The S.I.L. Solar Intelligent Lighting provides autonomous solar-powered luminaires for off-grid applications. A visual configurator tool enables customers to customize luminaire configurations. Recent launches include the compact Circus S luminaire (2025), specialized Safepass pedestrian crossing optic (2025), and the ICE S luminaire (2024).

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Smartec®: High-performance wireless smart city communication and lighting management system that enables remote management and connectivity of cities, controlling public utilities, collecting real-time data, and improving energy efficiency.
• S.I.L. (Solar Intelligent Lighting)
• Safepass
• SMARTEC PLUG & PLAY

Products and services

• LED Street Lighting Luminaires LED luminaires designed for streets, avenues, pedestrian crossings, roundabouts, bridges, tunnels, sports facilities and urban public spaces. Available in modern and classic aesthetic families, with photometric studies and configuration support for municipalities, engineering firms and lighting designers.
• Columns and Support Structures (Columnas y Soportes) Street lighting poles and support columns for use with Salvi luminaires across modern and classic heritage aesthetics, supplied to municipal and urban infrastructure projects.
• Balizas (Beacons) Low-level guide beacons that illuminate pathways with style and efficiency, including Nova S, Nova S Plus and Nova M models for pedestrian routes, plazas and urban landscaping.
• Lighting Accessories (Accesorios) Complementary installation accessories for Salvi lighting installations, including the Snap accessory for mounting and integration.
• Smartec® Smart City Management System Proprietary high-performance wireless communication system that converts each lighting node into an intelligent device for remote management of public utilities, real-time data collection, and energy efficiency optimization across connected municipal lighting networks. Sold as a standalone system or integrated with Salvi luminaires, and complemented by the Smartec App Plug & Play mobile application for QR-code-based geo-tagging during installation.
• S.I.L. — Solar Intelligent Lighting Autonomous solar-powered LED luminaire with an integrated management system that provides 100% emission-free public illumination for off-grid locations. Combines solar energy harvesting with smart lighting control, enabling first-time public lighting in peri-urban and rural areas without grid electricity access.
• Safepass Pedestrian Crossing Photometric Optic Specifically designed photometric optic for pedestrian crossings that increases pedestrian visibility on the vertical plane from the driver's perspective while avoiding glare, combining horizontal surface illumination with vertical pedestrian silhouette illumination. Targeted at municipalities and road safety authorities.
• Circus S Luminaire Salvi's most compact, versatile, and future-ready LED luminaire, launched May 2025 for public road and urban lighting applications.
• ICE S Luminaire LED street lighting luminaire launched in May 2024, added to Salvi's luminaire portfolio for public road lighting applications.
• Visual and Technical Luminaire Configurator Online self-service configurator tool (config.salvi.es) that enables municipal and engineering customers to visually and technically configure and compose Salvi luminaires for their specific street lighting project requirements, replacing traditional configuration tables.
• Project Design and Professional Services Custom lighting project design services for municipalities, urban developments, sports facilities, tunnels, and public spaces, including technical consulting, photometric studies, and configuration support through the online configurator tool.

Quantifiable outcome

• Deployment of 100,000 solar streetlights across 4,000 km of roads in Senegal
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers16 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature5 records

Partnerships

13 partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Solar Impulse FoundationcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerSalvi Lighting is part of the Solar Impulse Foundation's #1000solutions and #beyond1000solutions initiatives. Two Salvi products — S.I.L. Solar Intelligent Lighting and Smartec® — have received the Solar Impulse Efficient Solution Label, validating them as clean, efficient, and profitable solutions for a sustainable future.
• LUMINEST (France)coreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorExclusive distributor covering the Grand Est region of France (Départements 08-10-51-52-54-55-57-67-68-88). Contact: Stéphane BOZA.
• CITEQUIP-CITETECH (France)coreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorExclusive distributor covering the PACA region of France (Départements 04-05-06-13-83-84). Contact: Stéphane LIGEROT.
• ILLUMIS (France)coreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorExclusive distributor covering the Rhône-Alpes region of France (Départements 01-07-26-38-42-69-73-74). Contact: Franck RABOT.
• DEFONTAINE (France)coreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorExclusive distributor covering the Occitanie region of France (Départements 09-11-12-30-31-32-34-46-48-65-66-81-82). Contact: Gaël ZANCHI.
• LORCA SRL (Italy)coreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorExclusive distributor covering the Emilia Romagna region of Italy. Contact: Dr. Carlo Ferraboschi.
• GRAVANI BROS. SA (Greece)coreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorExclusive distributor for Greece. Contact: Thomas Gravani, 20 Napoleontos Zerva, 54640 Thessaloniki.
• LINX d.o.o. (Slovenia)coreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorExclusive distributor for Slovenia. Contact: Roman Heuffel, Industrijska cesta 5, Kromberk, 5000 Nova Gorica.
• NEDELKO B.V. (Netherlands)coreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorExclusive distributor for the Netherlands. Contact: Jurgen Van Zantvliet, Riga 10, 2993 LW Barendrrecht.
• GULF LINE / INTECO (UAE)coreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorExclusive distributor covering the Dubai region of UAE. Contact: Ana Goles, PO Box 40855, Dubai.
• DELTA LIGHTING (Egypt)minorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorDistributor covering the Egyptian market. Contact: Michael Ekram, 1b Block 13025, Industrial zone A, Obour City, Egypt.
• SVT Šviesos Technologijos (Lithuania)minorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorDistributor for Lithuania. Contact: Edgaras Gerdzevičius, Lukšio str. 15, 'Sunamus', LT-09132 Vilnius.
• LUMITRON PTE LTD (Singapore)minorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorDistributor for Singapore. Contact: Nicholas Khee, 103 Kaki Bukit Avenue 1, Shun Li Ind Pk, Singapore 415986.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Carandini: Spanish outdoor lighting manufacturer with a long heritage in municipal and urban luminaires. Direct competitor in Salvi's home market, with overlapping product families and shared municipal customers across Spain and Latin America.
• AEC Illuminazione: Italian outdoor lighting specialist focused on urban, street, and tunnel applications. Direct peer to Salvi with similar municipal/government customer base and competing on photometric performance and integrated smart controls.
• Schréder: Belgium-headquartered global leader in outdoor and street lighting, offering LED luminaires and smart-city management platforms (Shuffle, Owlet). Closest direct peer to Salvi — same product category, same municipal customer base, same connected-lighting thesis.

Emerging players

• Telensa: UK-based smart-streetlight controls specialist offering wireless telemanagement that integrates with third-party luminaires. Comparable to Salvi's Smartec® smart-city layer, focused exclusively on connected outdoor lighting networks.
• Cree Lighting (LED): LED-focused lighting manufacturer with a meaningful outdoor/roadway luminaire range. Comparable to Salvi on LED technology depth, but with stronger vertical integration into LED chip technology.
• Leotek (American Electric Lighting): U.S.-based outdoor LED luminaire and smart-controls manufacturer serving municipal and roadway markets. Comparable product mix to Salvi with a focus on LED retrofit and connected street lighting, primarily in North America.

Broad incumbents

• Hubbell Lighting: U.S. electrical and lighting conglomerate with an outdoor/street-lighting portfolio. Competitor in roadway and area lighting, primarily in the Americas, with broader electrical infrastructure exposure.
• Zumtobel Group / Thorn: Austrian lighting conglomerate with Thorn as its outdoor/street brand. Overlaps with Salvi in roadway and urban lighting but operates a much broader indoor and architectural lighting portfolio across global markets.
• GE Current, a Dentsu company: Global lighting and digital networks business with a strong outdoor, industrial, and intelligent-controls portfolio. Overlaps with Salvi on connected street lighting but operates at much greater scale, particularly in the Americas.
• Signify (Philips Lighting): Global lighting leader (Philips brand) with a massive outdoor lighting and connected-systems portfolio (Interact City). Competes with Salvi on large municipal tenders and smart-city platforms, but spans indoor, horticultural, and specialty lighting well beyond Salvi's outdoor focus.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance1 record

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Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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