grovez.io makes complex lighting infrastructure controllable:
connected, adaptive and ready to use in minutes — from the street
to the parking lot. A cloud platform as close to the field as your
everyday work.
Street lighting has grown complex. Controlling it shouldn't be.
Your lighting has grown — but your system hasn't. In many places
“smart” is still just a light switch.
A large share of existing street lighting still runs without real
control. No adaptation, no intelligence – just on and off.
No real controlMany networks have no control in any real sense – lighting is simply switched on or off centrally.
Time-based, not demand-basedTime switches decide when the light comes on – regardless of traffic, weather or actual demand.
Ripple-control receiversBasic ripple-control technology allows only limited commands – usually a few switching states with no feedback from the network.
No feedback from the fieldFaults are often noticed only when citizens report them – the system itself provides no reliable information.
Proprietary point solutionsSome more modern components exist – but mostly as isolated, proprietary islands with no interplay.
The result: a lot of effort, little control – and enormous untapped potential.
03 What sets us apart
Take control of your infrastructure.
grovez.io makes urban and industrial lighting intuitively
controllable — from the street to the parking lot. Open at every
interface, secured at every endpoint, simple on every screen.
01
Open integration — no lock-in.
Mixed luminaires, mixed protocols, mixed manufacturers. grovez.io unifies your estate over LoRaWAN, MQTT and API — without forcing you to swap everything or adopt a proprietary stack.
LoRaWANNB-IoTMQTTAPI
02
Monitoring & alerting.
A transparent overview of the status of your entire lighting. Instant notification of outages or faults — react proactively and plan your maintenance accordingly, instead of learning about problems from citizen calls.
Live mapMaintenanceAlarmsStatus
03
Adaptive, on-demand lighting.
Light that adapts automatically to activity, motion and ambient data. Use energy only where it's really needed — for safety, atmosphere and efficiency.
AdaptiveEventSingle lightSegmentAstronomical
04
App-guided onboarding.
Integrate new devices in minutes — without complex configuration. Segment and single-light control in one interface, no matter which supplier installed them.
Onboarding appMulti-vendorSegmentSingle light
05
Built for daily work — not for the manual.
Usable without training: maps, control and alarms in one clear interface. Practical instead of feature-bloated — your team is productive from day one.
IntuitiveNo trainingOne interfacePractical
04 Open about the radio network
Open and flexible — with any network.
Our preferred path is a network that already exists — Element IoT,
The Things Network, NB-IoT or your national LoRaWAN such as Swisscom
LPN. If there isn't one yet, we advise you on the setup and provide
the LoRaWAN network server.
01
Roaming onto existing networks
Already on Element IoT, The Things Network, NB-IoT or a national LoRaWAN such as Swisscom LPN? We roam onto it — our preferred path, instead of competing against a network that's already there.
02
Your own LoRaWAN server
No network yet? We run the LoRaWAN network server for you — EU-resident, with automatic recovery.
03
Advisory
Site surveys, radio planning and vendor selection — we advise you on the setup, from a single site to a whole district.
05 Secure by Design · Cloud-native
Cloud doesn't mean risk — it means security.
grovez.io meets the highest European security standards — from
data protection and cloud security to IoT network protection.
Transparent, robust and “Made in Germany”.
Data protection
GDPR / DSGVO
Your data stays in Europe. Fully GDPR-compliant, with clear data flows, DPA contracts and privacy by design.
CRA-ready with logging and incident reporting — built to European security standards.
Network
LoRaWAN Security
Security by design: secure key management, end-to-end encryption and TLS for all data connections.
06 Application areas
Discover your application areas.
From streets to industrial halls — grovez.io grows with your requirements. One platform for urban and industrial lighting, intuitively controllable.
01
Roads & pedestrian crossings
Connected streets with adaptive brightness. Better visibility at crossings, less energy on empty stretches.
02
City centres & industry
Yards, halls and factory sites through to the pedestrian zone — centrally controlled, presence-aware and safely lit.
03
Parks & sports grounds
Light paths, green spaces and pitches beautifully and efficiently — by schedule and actual use.
04
Car parks & garages
Every level and bay in view. Light follows movement, faults show up instantly.
From the street to the industrial hall — grovez.io grows with you.Book a demo
07 Voices from the field
The people who keep the light running trust it.
“An ecosystem that genuinely works in practice. The app-guided device onboarding process saved us an enormous amount of time.”
P3
Partner 3
Technology provider
“With grovez.io we were able to connect our lighting efficiently and detect outages immediately.”
P1
Partner 1
Municipal utility
“The grovez.io platform is intuitive and has noticeably simplified our lighting and control.”
P2
Partner 2
Industrial company
Partners & customersGiardinelloGratteri
Five principles grovez.io is built on
Overview
Monitoring & maintenance.
Keep an eye on your entire lighting infrastructure at all times – transparent, reliable and ready for proactive maintenance.
Clarity
One interface, no manual.
Maps, control, alarms — visible at a glance. App-guided onboarding instead of weeks of training.
Openness
Open interfaces.
LoRaWAN, MQTT and API. Every manufacturer, every handover point documented.
Security
Secure by design.
Highest European standards – GDPR-compliant, ISO-27001-oriented, made in Germany.
Impact
On demand. Energy-efficient.
Light only where it's needed – adaptive control cuts consumption and cost.
09 In service of public goals
We contribute to three UN Sustainable Development Goals.
Everyone who uses grovez.io contributes directly to their climate and sustainability strategy.
Three Sustainable Development Goals our platform measurably supports.
Goal 11
Sustainable Cities and Communities
Lighting is public infrastructure. Adaptive control lowers energy use without reducing safety for citizens.
Goal 13
Climate Action
Up to 80% less electricity — documented, auditable, usable for the municipal climate report.
Goal 15
Life on Land
Light curves that respect nocturnal wildlife and dark corridors. Less light pollution, less ecological impact.
Source · UN Sustainable Development GoalsContribution documented in the grovez.io sustainability report
10 Whitepaper
Connected lighting for smart cities.
The open IoT platform for connected lighting — concisely prepared: reference architecture, platform capabilities, security baseline and practical examples. Focused on the platform, not the hardware.
Frequently asked questions about connected lighting.
What is a smart city lighting platform?
A smart city lighting platform connects your street and outdoor lighting in one central cloud interface. Instead of fixed switching times, you control every luminaire or segment in real time, see faults instantly, and adjust brightness on demand.
What is the difference between LoRaWAN and MQTT?
LoRaWAN is a radio standard for sending small amounts of data over long distances at very low power — ideal for connecting luminaires in the field. MQTT is a lightweight messaging protocol that moves that data between devices and the cloud. grovez.io uses both and adds open APIs on top.
Can I retrofit existing luminaires without swapping hardware?
Yes. grovez.io is vendor-neutral and connects mixed estates over LoRaWAN, NB-IoT, MQTT and API. In most projects every existing luminaire stays in the ground — the only new thing is the unified control and telemetry layer above it.
How secure is the platform, and is it GDPR-compliant?
The platform is GDPR-compliant and EU-resident — built to the highest European standards. It is additionally CRA- and C5-ready.
Does it create vendor lock-in, or is grovez.io tied to open standards?
grovez.io is openly documented at every interface. You keep control of your data and your estate and can combine hardware from different vendors — without tying yourself to a single supplier for 20 years.
How quickly is the platform ready to use?
Getting started takes minutes, not weeks of training: app-guided onboarding integrates new devices directly, and maps, control and alarms are visible immediately. Larger estates are migrated district by district while live.
12 Get started
Ready for connected infrastructure?
Become part of the ecosystem and bring your lighting to the cloud. Your hardware, our control — we reply within one business day.
