Grant: Applied Research and Development Grants - Level 1

Lightenco is a Canada-wide company with headquarters in Ottawa, Ontario and is comprised of an award-winning team of lighting designers. Lightenco specializes in LED lighting analysis, lighting design, lighting controls, energy and cost saving modeling for commercial buildings, multi residential buildings and public lighting. For most small to mid-size retail stores, warehouses and office buildings, lighting is the top energy user. Even though lighting can be a large portion of overall electricity costs, it can be reduced significantly by switching to LED lighting. Currently the lighting industry is lacking an off-the-shelf auditing tool and companies, like Lightenco, are using out of date and slow methods that are time consuming and lack standardization. In response to this, Lightenco, in collaboration with Lambton College's Lambton Energy Research Centre, aims to create a software platform and mobile app that will allow auditors to gather precise information of facilities where energy retrofit is considered. Lightenco will also create a set of APIs that enable the operation of the platforms. This project will encourage businesses to use the application to retrofit buildings with LED energy solutions which will save on energy and costs, while reducing greenhouse gas emission. This auditing tool will drive more business opportunities to Lightenco and provide their clients with savings that can be reinvested into their companies.