Case Study: DimOnOff achieves 40–50% maintenance savings and rapid ROI with Digi International's XBee DigiMesh solution

DimOnOff Uses Digi XBee to Bring New Life to City Streets with Smart Streetlight Solutions

DimOnOff is a leading innovator in wireless controls and remote monitoring for street and area lighting, helping cities upgrade aging, high‑maintenance HPS systems as they transition to LEDs. The company faced the challenge of replacing a costly, binary streetlight model—where fixtures were unmetered, hard to monitor, and required manual night inspections—with a scalable, connected approach that reduces energy use, maintenance headaches, and citizen complaints.

DimOnOff’s solution adds intelligent, addressable modules to fixtures and links them with Digi XBee DigiMesh radios to create a secure, self‑healing mesh of controllable light nodes managed via the DimOnOff SCMS platform. The system enables per‑fixture monitoring, metering and remote dimming or event‑based control, cutting monthly networking costs to about $0.04 per pole (vs. $1–$2 for cellular) and delivering payback in as little as three years; customers report up to 40–50% maintenance savings, lower energy use, improved public safety applications, and new IoT services like sewer monitoring and RGBW mood lighting.

DimOnOff

Daniel Noiseux

Vp Business Development