Enlighted launches Customer First program to advance IoT and lighting controls for commercial buildings

Enlighted gives lighting manufacturers access to the world’s most advanced digital sensor and analytics platform NEW YORK – Enlighted Inc., a leading technology innovator and provider of energy efficiency solutions, has launched a unique partner collaboration program with lighting manufacturers to advance the Internet of Things (IoT). The Customer First™ program integrates Enlighted technology directly into partners’ lighting fixtures to enable smart lighting solutions being demanded by market leaders seeking to optimize their real estate portfolios. Customer First partners can integrate Enlighted’s sensors into virtually any fixture type for virtually any application during the manufacturing process, reducing the overall cost of the integrated fixture for end-users, and ensuring the Customer First partnership is actively providing smart IoT lighting solutions to its customers. “Customer demand for intelligent controls across the business spectrum is accelerating, from high tech early adopters to risk-averse financial services organizations. They’re all asking for control-embedded lighting that’s smart, code-compliant, and future-proof,” said Joe Costello, Enlighted CEO. “Integrating intelligence into the fixture promises to transform this industry, just as bringing intelligence to the cell phone revolutionized the personal computing space. After all, we’ve all seen the power of innovation when solution providers responded to end-user demands for simplicity. We’re excited at the opportunity to lead this transformation.” Enlighted’s technology platform focuses on superior, high-fidelity sensing to capture occupancy/vacancy data, daylight levels, and temperature. With this data, the company’s unique wireless control network can provide unmatched monitoring, control, analytics and optimization of the both interior and exterior environments for truly IoT connected buildings. Customer First participants receive robust product and technical resources, as well as access to Enlighted’s preferred customer base and Global Energy Optimization™ (GEO) program. “Through this program, we are able to offer our partners a technologically advanced system at no risk because our system has been proven in the marketplace for years,” said Costello. “We are helping the industry – and lighting manufacturers – advance the commercial marketplace into the Internet of Things (IoT), and the benefits are huge.” About Enlighted Designed to change everything, Enlighted provides the world’s most advanced digital sensor and analytics platform for smarter buildings to Fortune 500 companies around the globe. Enlighted was founded in 2009 and has received venture funding from Draper Nexus Ventures, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, RockPort Capital Partners, Draper Fisher Jurvetson and Intel Capital. The company is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.