Timeline
CONXCORP at a glance, 1998 to today.
- 011998 – 2011
Networks first, then light
Communications, broadband and converged infrastructure: the engineering roots of everything that followed, and the first lighting programs abroad.
- 1998Company
CONXCORP is established
CONXCORP begins in communications and converged networks: designing, building and supporting electronics and wireless equipment.
- 1999Networks
The first national Wi-Fi network
CONXCORP deploys the first-ever national 802.11b Wi-Fi network, for Smurfit-MBI.
- 2000Networks
Enterprise VoIP for the Government of Canada
CONXCORP deploys the first enterprise-grade voice-over-IP solutions for the federal government.
- 2002Networks
Rural broadband around the capital
CONXCORP builds the first terrestrial rural broadband networks around Ottawa.
- 2004Networks
Canada’s first paperless classrooms
CONXCORP designs and implements Canada’s first paperless classrooms.
- 2005Financing
CONXCORP establishes its project funding division
A dedicated division to structure the funding behind our projects: the roots of today’s ESCO, lease and financial programs.
- 2006Networks
Converged infrastructure for Mount Sinai
CONXCORP designs and implements the converged infrastructure behind the hospital’s electronic patient recording system.
- Smart & IoT
Smart lighting control: the origins of IoT
CONXCORP designs its first smart lighting control, the beginning of the path that leads to the INTELIGHT platform.
- 2008Lighting
Energy-efficient lighting in West Africa
CONXCORP deploys energy-efficient lighting for the public sector in West Africa.
- 2009Lighting
Lighting programs across Latin America
CONXCORP supports World Bank and IMF lighting initiatives across the region.
- 2011Networks
Smart antenna system
CONXCORP designs a sectored-array smart antenna system to shape radio-frequency fields optimally and securely: one of the first of its kind.
- 022012 – 2019
Lighting at scale
From Canada’s largest LED streetlight project to lighting as a service across South America, with intelligence creeping onto the pole.
- 2012Lighting
Canada’s largest LED streetlighting project
CONXCORP is awarded the City of Mississauga’s streetlight conversion: more than 60,000 streetlights.
- 2013Smart & IoT
Wi-Fi and surveillance built into CONXCORP lighting
CONXCORP integrates connectivity and cameras into the luminaire: the light pole becomes a platform for more than light.
- 2014Company
CONXCORP opens corporate offices in Argentina
A permanent base in South America, with local engineering and project management.
- 2015Financing
CONXCORP creates Uruguay’s first lighting ESCO
CONXCORP delivers lighting as a service, backed by presidential decree, with a rollout for the Ministry of Defense: the customer pays for light, not for fixtures.
- 2016Smart & IoT
Quad-function light controller
CONXCORP designs a controller with wireless, GPS, lux sensor and photo sensor in one: the first step toward intelligence on the pole.
- 2017Lighting
Credit Union Place, Prince Edward Island
CONXCORP lights the aquatics centre with the glare and uniformity control that lets lifeguards see beneath the water’s surface.
- Lighting
SmartCentres REIT, province-wide
CONXCORP replaces all exterior lighting across SmartCentres REIT’s properties, province-wide, for safer sites and lower energy use.
- 2018Smart & IoT
The idea behind INTELIGHT
CONXCORP identifies the five gaps that stop smart projects before they start: power, connectivity, vantage point, disparate systems and right-of-way. Lighting already answers three of them.
- 2019Lighting
Roxbury Community College, Boston
CONXCORP’s campus-wide LED retrofit saves more than 70 % in energy, and the college models its Smart Building Technology curriculum on our engineering approach.
- 032020 – today
Everything smart and IoT
INTELIGHT, intelligent infrastructure and new lines of business, from explosion-proof lighting to wellness.
- 2020Smart & IoT
CONXCORP founds INTELIGHT
Spun out of CONXCORP in August 2020: a converged platform that enables everything smart and IoT, and builds the infrastructure it runs on.
- Lighting
Manitoulin Island baseball diamond
CONXCORP lights the island’s baseball diamond and replaces its poles.
- Lighting
Explosion-proof lighting for Northern Ontario’s mines
CONXCORP supplies explosion-proof lighting with custom optics to underground mines across Northern Ontario: the start of the explosion-proof range.
- 2021Smart & IoT
INTELIGHT’s $2.2 million smart-city pilot
CONXCORP’s INTELIGHT leads a two-year, publicly and privately funded project with an Ontario municipality to develop and test the platform on its lighting network.
- Lighting
Metrolinx LRT lighting, Ontario
CONXCORP is awarded the platform, pedestrian and roadway lighting for a Metrolinx light rail transit project.
- Lighting
Lighting the logistics corridors of the Southern Cone
CONXCORP lights the roadways and parking of the terminals that keep South America’s exports moving, with a sharp cut-off against light pollution.
- 2022Lighting
Architectural lighting joins the range
CONXCORP adds a new line built on an innovative magnetic system: luminaires that mount, move and swap along one track.
- Lighting
City of Barrie Public Library
CONXCORP designs the library’s architectural lighting on the magnetic system, with interchangeable luminaires.
- 2023Lighting
UOIT: architectural colour-changing lighting
CONXCORP delivers controllable, colour-changing exterior lighting for the university, with scenes created remotely to mark holidays and events.
- 2023–24Lighting
Ports, piers and the forestry yards that feed them
CONXCORP installs highmast lighting over pulp and paper log yards, container terminals and export piers across Uruguay.
- 2024Smart & IoT
Wellness collaboration: the platform meets clinical data
CONXCORP applies the INTELIGHT platform to patient data, establishing baselines so care teams can plan treatment proactively instead of reactively.
- 2025Smart & IoT
Property management runs on INTELIGHT
CONXCORP deploys the INTELIGHT platform across a property portfolio: water leaks, utility outages and environmental issues caught as they happen, and maintenance turned proactive.
- 2026Wellness
PHYTA collaboration: bringing light to garments
Infrared fabrics developed by CONXCORP with PHYTA carry the benefits of light into what people wear, alongside the red light therapy range.
- Smart & IoT
Intelligence reaches the industrial yard
CONXCORP builds a water-flow IoT and KPI reporting project for a logistics terminal in Uruguay, on the INTELIGHT platform.
- TodayCompany
More than two million fixtures installed worldwide
CONXCORP delivers lighting, power and intelligence from Canada, with offices in Argentina, Uruguay and worldwide.