sixData
sixData GmbH is a German SaaS company that provides management information systems for street lighting and public infrastructure, serving municipalities, cities, and energy utilities across the DACH region with 6M+ light points under management.
- Company typePrivate
- Founded2002
- HeadquartersPrien, Germany
- Headcount11–50
- GTM typeB2B
- OfferingSoftware
What sixData does
sixData GmbH is a privately held German software company founded in 2002 and headquartered in Prien, Bavaria. It develops management information systems (MIS) for public infrastructure, with a primary focus on street lighting and adjacent domains such as traffic signals (luxData.lsa), E-vehicle charging stations (luxData.ebox), and citizen-reported fault management (stoerung24). The company employs 37 people, the majority of whom are developers, and reports managing more than six million light points across Europe. It has held DACH market-leader status in street-lighting software since 2006 and has been continuously ISO 27001 certified for over five years, with all software hosted in German data centers to meet GDPR/DSGVO procurement requirements.
The product portfolio centers on the luxData family: luxData.licht (full MIS for street and outdoor lighting), luxData.easy (simplified cloud-based MIS aimed at smaller municipalities and adjacent verticals), luxData.control (a manufacturer-independent lighting-control and dimming platform integrating protocols from Signify, Siteco, Schréder, Hausheld, Phoenix Contact, esave, and others), plus mobile and desktop capture tools (luxData.mobileApp, luxData.easyApp, luxData.desktop, luxData.scanApp) and web portals (luxData.web, stoerung24 portal and app, embeddable stoerung24 iFrame). The proprietary ML50-QR standard, released in April 2025, defines 50 standardized data fields for LED luminaire documentation via QR code, creating a defensible interface between hardware OEMs and the luxData database. Recent product releases include a Microsoft Word add-in for luxData.easy (May 2026) and an online Beleuchtungsklassenrechner tool (April 2025).
sixData operates a sales-led, direct go-to-market model selling SaaS subscriptions, professional services (implementation, data migration from legacy systems such as SAP, Oracle, Access, Excel, and Communalux), and managed server hosting to municipalities, cities, and energy utilities across the DACH region, with pilot deployments in the Netherlands (Rotterdam). Customer segments include large utilities (ewz Zürich, BKW, EVN, swb, Avacon, BonnNetz, BerlinLicht/Stromnetz Berlin, badenovaNETZE, SRM/Mainova), mid-sized municipal utilities, and smaller municipalities, with growing extension into telecom infrastructure (5G mast sites via 5G-Synergiewerk), fiber-optic networks (Stadt Fulda), and housing cooperatives. The company maintains long-tenure customer relationships (Münster since 2012, Bonn since ~2013, Passau since 2017) and is led by three managing directors (Christian Lindl, Armin Mühlberger, Ralf Fürst) with no disclosed outside investors.
sixData firmographics
Firmographics- Name
- sixData
- Legal name
- sixData GmbH
- Website
- https://sixdata.de
- Company type
- Private
- Founded year
- 2002
- Operating status
- Operating
- Headcount range
- 11–50 employees
- Short description
- sixData GmbH is a German SaaS company that provides management information systems for street lighting and public infrastructure, serving municipalities, cities, and energy utilities across the DACH region with 6M+ light points under management.
- Ownership category
- akta.pro rank
sixData industry classification
Industry- Product category
- Public Infrastructure Asset Management Software
- NAICS
- Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services (518)
- SIC
- Measuring & Controlling Devices, Nec (3829), Services-Facilities Support Management Services (8744)
- akta.pro primary industry
- Data Center Operations & Managed Services (Remote Hands, NOC/SOC) (HDABANAA)
- akta.pro secondary industries
- Enterprise Integration Middleware, Historian & Data Management for SCADA/ADMS (EUADAEAO), Digital Self-Service & Customer Portals (web/mobile, e-bill, notifications, consumption dashboards) (EUANAIAI)
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Where sixData is headquartered
LocationHeadquarters
- HQ city
- Prien
- HQ country
- Germany
- HQ region
- Europe
Offices1 record
Markets served
sixData business model
Business model- GTM type
- B2B
- Offering type
- Software
- Cost components
- Personnel, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales, Operations
Revenue model
- Software Subscriptions (SaaS): luxData and luxData.easy are cloud-based software-as-a-service products. Customers access the software over the internet from any location. The company provides a fully configured environment hosted in German data centers. Subscriptions typically include hosting, support, updates, and maintenance.
- Professional Services – Implementation & Data Migration: sixData provides implementation services including data import and migration from legacy systems (Excel, Access, SAP, Oracle, Communalux), system configuration, and go-live support. The company employs specialists who have been handling data migrations for nearly 15 years.
- Server Hosting: Customers can choose to have their luxData environment hosted on sixData's servers (server hosting). This includes daily backups, 24/7 monitoring, security audits, and automated updates. This is offered as a managed service bundled with the subscription.
Go-to-market motion1 record
Distribution channels1 record
Marketing channels7 records
sixData product offering
Product offeringCore offering
sixData develops and sells the luxData proprietary management information system (MIS) software for documenting, managing, historizing, and operating public street lighting, traffic signals, traffic signs, and E-charging stations for municipalities, cities, and energy utilities. The product family spans luxData (full MIS), luxData.easy (cloud-based simplified MIS), luxData.control (manufacturer-independent lighting control), luxData.ebox (E-charging management), luxData.lsa (traffic signal management), and mobile/desktop/web field applications, complemented by the stoerung24 citizen-facing fault reporting portal and the proprietary ML50-QR luminaire data standard.
Product overview
sixData GmbH offers a comprehensive software portfolio for managing public infrastructure, centered on the luxData management information system. The core product luxData.licht serves as the primary platform for street and outdoor lighting documentation, while luxData.lsa handles traffic signal systems and luxData.ebox manages E-charging stations. The luxData.control module provides manufacturer-independent lighting control and dimming capabilities with integrated protocols from multiple luminaire manufacturers. For smaller municipalities, luxData.easy provides simplified data management with companion mobile app luxData.easyApp. Supporting modules include luxData.web and luxData.mobileWeb for web-based access, luxData.desktop for offline field data capture, and luxData.scanApp for barcode/QR/RFID scanning. The stoerung24 portal and mobile app enable citizen-reported fault management that integrates directly into luxData workflows. The company also developed the ML50-QR standard for LED luminaire data documentation. All products are hosted in German data centers with ISO 27001 certification, and the company operates as a Microsoft Partner with over 12 years in the Microsoft Partner Program.
Differentiator
Problem solved
Functional benefit
Brands
- luxData: Hauptproduktlinie für Managementinformationssysteme zur Dokumentation von Straßen- und Außenbeleuchtung, einschließlich luxData.licht, luxData.lsa, luxData.control, luxData.ebox, luxData.easy, luxData.mobileApp, luxData.desktop, luxData.web
- stoerung24
- ML50-QR
Products and services
- luxData / luxData.licht Core management information system (MIS) software for the professional documentation, historization, and administration of street and outdoor lighting assets. Used by cities, municipalities, and energy utilities to capture, manage, and process all lighting objects with integrated GIS mapping.
- luxData.easy Cloud-based, simplified management information system for smaller municipalities and organizations. Provides intuitive administration of public infrastructure objects (including street lighting) without complex configurations.
Quantifiable outcome
- 6 million+ light points managed across Europe
- +7 more outcomes
Companies that use sixData
Customer profileNamed customers26 records
Segments6 records
Ideal customer profiles4 records
sixData technology and API
TechnologyTechnology focussed Yes
API detail
- Has API
- No
- API docs
- API detail
Core technology
AI maturity
App detail
Integration2 records
Feature6 records
sixData partnerships and signals
Strategic signalPartnerships
Nine partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.
- Siteco (a Siemens Osram brand)coreSiteco was selected as the luminaire supplier for the Stadtwerke Celle LED modernization project. The Siteco IQ system connects with luxData.easy via QR code scanning, allowing customers to adjust parameters like light intensity and switching times over Bluetooth. Siteco luminaires are also integrated with luxData.control.
- Westenergie Netzservice GmbHcoreWestenergie Netzservice GmbH was the general contractor for the installation and documentation of ~10,000 LED street lights for Stadtwerke Celle. They use luxData.easy and luxData.easyApp for data capture and documentation during the LED retrofit project.
- Stadtwerke Bonn / BonnNetz GmbHminorStadtwerke Bonn embeds the stoerung24 portal on their website, allowing citizens to report street lighting faults. Also uses the custom 'StörungBonn' app.
- Signify (formerly Philips Lighting)coresixData has a partnership with Signify for the integration of Signify's lighting control systems (CityTouch and Interact) into luxData.control. This enables municipalities using Signify luminaires to centrally control and dim their street lighting through the luxData platform. The partnership increases the addressable market for both companies and is featured in trade press (LiCHT Fachmagazin für Beleuchtung, 2018).
- HausheldcoresixData and Hausheld (a metering service provider) collaborate on lighting control. Hausheld's hardware integrates with luxData.control to enable remote dimming and management of street lighting. This partnership is covered in a joint press release (May 2019).
- SchrédercoreSchréder's lighting control systems (Owlet and Exedra) are integrated into luxData.control. The partnership enables centralized control of Schréder luminaires through the luxData platform. Featured in a netzpraxis article (March 2017) covering the Offenbach pilot project.
- Stoerung24 Network (Multiple Municipal Partners)coreMultiple municipalities and utilities embed the stoerung24 portal as an iFrame on their own websites, extending the fault reporting service to citizens. Partners include Stadt Dortmund, Stadtwerke Bonn, EWR GmbH Remscheid, EVN AG, badenovaNETZE, Stadtwerke Ludwigsburg-Kornwestheim, Universitätsstadt Siegen, and many others. This is both a distribution channel and a product integration.
- enercity contractingminorenercity contracting uses the stoerung24 service embedded on their homepage for citizens of Bremerhaven to report street lighting faults.
- EWR GmbH RemscheidminorEWR GmbH integrates stoerung24 into their proprietary 'Energiebündel' citizen app, extending the fault reporting function to their app users.
Scale indicators8 records
Recent moves6 records
Expansion highlights6 records
sixData competitors and assessment
Company assessmentBroad incumbents
- Schneider Electric EcoStruxure: Schneider Electric's EcoStruxure platform provides broad smart city, energy, and lighting management solutions for utilities and municipalities globally. It overlaps with sixData in street lighting and energy management but operates as a broader portfolio player rather than a DACH-specialist.
- Esri ArcGIS Utility Network: Esri's ArcGIS platform, particularly its Utility Network extension, provides GIS-based infrastructure asset management widely used by municipalities and utilities. It is comparable as the GIS backbone that often competes with or hosts luxData's map and asset documentation functionality.
- IBM Maximo Application Suite: IBM Maximo is a market-leading enterprise asset management platform used extensively by utilities and municipalities for infrastructure maintenance. It overlaps with sixData in the asset management and maintenance workflow domain but at a much broader scope and enterprise scale.
Direct peers
- Cityworks (Trimble): Cityworks is a leading GIS-centric asset management and work order platform for municipalities and utilities. It is directly comparable to luxData in serving the same public asset management buyer with SaaS-based asset, maintenance, and citizen engagement capabilities, though it is broader in scope and US-centric.
- Telensa: Telensa provides wireless smart street lighting controls and asset management used by municipalities globally. It competes directly with luxData.control's lighting control and asset management capabilities, particularly for city-scale deployments.
- Signify Interact (CityTouch): Signify's Interact platform is a smart street lighting management and control system from the world's largest lighting company. It is both a partner of sixData (integrated into luxData.control) and a competing end-to-end management platform, making it a peer with overlap in target customers and functionality.
- Cartegraph: Cartegraph provides asset management software for municipalities, utilities, and campuses, including infrastructure, street, and lighting inventory. It competes directly with luxData in the municipal infrastructure management space, with similar workflow and asset-centric positioning.
- TVILIGHT: TVILIGHT is a Dutch provider of smart street lighting control and city IoT management solutions serving European municipalities. It competes with luxData.control in the European smart lighting control market, with comparable manufacturer-independent ambitions.
- Lucity: Lucity offers asset and work management software specifically for utilities and municipalities, including linear infrastructure (water, sewer, lighting). It is a direct competitor for sixData's public infrastructure and utility customers, with comparable feature sets in maintenance, GIS, and citizen engagement.
- Paradox Engineering: Paradox Engineering, a Swiss company, offers smart city and smart lighting infrastructure platforms including lighting control and sensor management. It is a direct European peer competing for the same municipal and utility customers with comparable IoT and lighting control offerings.
Market position
Strengths5 records
Weaknesses5 records
Competitive moat6 records
Key risks6 records
Key highlights7 records
Customer concentration
sixData social profiles
Digital presencesixData compliance and trust
Trust signalCompliance3 records
sixData financial estimates
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sixData leadership team
Management profileNumber of profiles
Profiles3 records
sixData funding detail
Funding detailFunding overview
Funding rounds
Investors
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sixData M&A and investment
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Frequently asked questions about sixData
What does sixData do?
sixData develops and sells the luxData proprietary management information system (MIS) software for documenting, managing, historizing, and operating public street lighting, traffic signals, traffic signs, and E-charging stations for municipalities, cities, and energy utilities. The product family spans luxData (full MIS), luxData.easy (cloud-based simplified MIS), luxData.control (manufacturer-independent lighting control), luxData.ebox (E-charging management), luxData.lsa (traffic signal management), and mobile/desktop/web field applications, complemented by the stoerung24 citizen-facing fault reporting portal and the proprietary ML50-QR luminaire data standard.
Is sixData a public or private company?
sixData is a private company. It is classified as founder individual operated bootstrapped and is currently operating.
When was sixData founded?
sixData was founded in 2002. It employs 11 to 50 people.
Where is sixData based?
sixData is headquartered in Prien, Germany, in the Europe region.
How does sixData make money?
Three revenue lines are on record. Software Subscriptions (SaaS) is the primary driver. The others are professional Services – Implementation & Data Migration and server Hosting.
Who are sixData's main competitors?
Broad incumbents on record are Schneider Electric EcoStruxure, Esri ArcGIS Utility Network and IBM Maximo Application Suite. Direct peers are Cityworks (Trimble), Telensa, Signify Interact (CityTouch), Cartegraph, TVILIGHT, Lucity and Paradox Engineering.
Does sixData have an API?
No public API is recorded for sixData.
What industry is sixData in?
sixData's product category is Public Infrastructure Asset Management Software. Its primary akta.pro industry code is HDABANAA, Data Center Operations & Managed Services (Remote Hands, NOC/SOC), with a secondary code of EUADAEAO, Enterprise Integration Middleware, Historian & Data Management for SCADA/ADMS. Its NAICS code is 518 and its SIC code is 3829.