Hold GE and other famous enterprises thigh Sensity fund-raising more than 200 million to expand the smart lighting

Sensity Systems is the induction lamp network (LSNs) market rookie, CISCO recently by the famous American manufacturers (Cisco)'s Cisco Investments led the $36 million (about 224 million yuan) of the private financing funds are in place. Other investors, including the United States, the lighting industry Acuity Brands, as well as General Electric (GE)'s GE Ventures, as well as Simon Venture Group and other investors. In addition to the four companies mentioned above, Sensity has also been obtained Almaz Capital, Mohr Davidow Ventures, Radar Partners and Silver CREEk Ventures, a number of Vc firms investment, raising the amount has reached $74 million (about 460 million yuan).

According to the information provided by the Sensity, this financing will be used to expand the global NetSense platform and application development plan, which is an intelligent lighting system, one of the important links in the induction lamp network.

Sensity president and CEO Hugh Martin said: "this investment strategy into everything from important brands in the world network (IoE), LED lighting and retail industry, re verification of Sensity sensing network (LSN) is a popular technology at present, it has not only in the industry and has many practical applications the platform, data is a global scale. "

Sensity is a pioneer in the new optical network industry pioneer, not only with the relevant technology, the integration of professional knowledge, but also to maintain a complete team of CO manufacturers. The light sensing network for lighting infrastructure upgrade, through embedded sensors, wireless connection system and lighting data analysis to collect and transmit data at the same time, start cloud applications and services, used in smart city, smart parking, retail services, security and public safety, environmental monitoring and other purposes.

Martin also pointed out: the core role of science and technology is to provide a better living environment for the global human. In order to achieve the goal of better human life, we must first find a way to measure the current situation of the physical world, and synchronize the analysis of these data. No other company can provide the same resources and platform components to meet the global market. Sensity is to build a global enterprise platform, to collect these data in order to achieve this vision, the traditional enterprise from different manufacturers to take hardware as the center, a step become science and technology, services and information provided by enterprises. "

Sensity stressed that the company will use these funds to raise funds, expanding cloud NetSense sensing network platform and the Internet of things (IoT) network application, increase the added value of more products, to allow customers to borrow information and analysis skills from the integration of industrial networking, to achieve the best, increase safety and reduce energy consumption. At the same time, the company will also invest in the global investment in the installation of light sensor network vendors.

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