Intelligent Highway Solutions, an established provider of robust electrical contracting solutions across the spectrum of high and low voltage applications, has evolved considerably from their bedrock in proprietary wireless vehicle detection and lighting technologies designed to improve safety on America’s roads. Today the company continues to broaden its reach in parallel markets like energy-efficient building solutions for advanced lighting, as well as wireless communications and temperature control systems, and has even begun applying their technological prowess to cracking the white-hot North American cannabis sector.
The company’s 100-watt lighting system shows incredible energy savings of up to 80% when running at low temperatures around 80 degrees and their intelligent, networked traffic signal solutions not only improve roadway throughput and safety, they offer city officials a ready means of gathering potent big data vectors to help better understand the flow of traffic and thus plan infrastructure/spending accordingly. Similarly, the company’s smart-parking solutions executed alongside partner Case Parking help create a self-aware wireless parking grid, improving the efficiency of high volume entities like municipal, healthcare, university, and commercial lots. Real-time data aggregation of parking activity, including an alert system to more efficiently deploy assistance, greatly reduces overall outlays while offering proprietors and managers a form of high-value, persistent situational awareness about their infrastructure and clientele.
The still nascent medical marijuana (MMJ) market in the U.S. alone is on track to produce around $2B in revenue this year according to the May analytics out of IBISWorld. With a projected growth rate of around 19.1% through 2019 and even larger figures for the broader space, like the retail store end-market (around $3B with a trailing CAGR 20.5% over the last half-decade), there is nevertheless still tremendous room for growth. An increasing number of Americans have moved towards treating pain and other conditions with medical marijuana in recent years and legislative reform is pointing in the direction of sustained sector growth. A sizeable proportion of the overall U.S. market still does not use medical marijuana, despite the increasing perception that components like cannabidiol (CBD) oil possesses tremendous potential health benefits with little to no associated risks and so there is plenty of upside in the sector yet to be realized.
IHSI is in a superb position to leverage the same kind of advanced Solid State Diode (SSD)
lighting technology used to help heavy-hitters like Honeywell International, Inc. (NYSE:HON) achieve California Title 24 energy efficiency building code standards to assist growers in the MMJ sector when it comes to improving their cultivation output, as well as operating efficiency. Intelligent Highway Solutions has access to the gamut of both off-the-shelf and custom-built SSD hardware via their master distribution agreement with SCS Lighting, whose products routinely exceed 100k-hour lifespans, making them perfect for a variety of uses ranging from safe food quality and explosion-proof applications, to more mundane “rough service” usages.
IHSI’s proprietary 300-watt lighting solution for improving healthy cannabis yields benefits from increased photonic density and greater lumen output (a whopping 10.5k lumens per 100W fixture), offering cultivators a superior color spectrum solution that not only enhances growth rates and chemical potency, but also offers the chance to save on the primary cost factor associated with such cultivation, energy consumption. The company’s proprietary hydroponic lighting fixtures using high-efficiency LEDs are wavelength tunable for specific applications, harnessing the established science behind the ability of precise wavelengths to maximize photosynthesis. A combination of up to 400% more usable light than traditional competing offerings, as well as seasonal output replication via wavelength-tunability, is a powerful tech mix that makes these extremely energy efficient fixtures a God send for hydroponic cultivators, even if we are just talking about increasingly lucrative organic produce. High-yields, accelerated growth and vastly improved energy efficiency over traditional HID metal halide or sodium lamps in wide use today, puts the company at the forefront of the rapidly emerging MMJ sector alongside players like controlled agricultural technology developer Terra Tech Corp. (OTCQB:TRTC), or GreenGro Technologies (OTCPK:GRNH).
The company is even working on a replacement technology for standard inductive loop systems that not only will gather and transmits traffic flow data, it will reduce power required to run the wireless transmitter and achieve zero idle power loss, only using power to actually transmit data. While this project focuses heavily on developing sophisticated low-power control algorithms that can harvest piezoelectric energy from the short-duration vibrations created by vehicles going over the sensor, it also offers a clear alternative to inductive loop detectors that require continuous power consumption, even at night when traffic is low, presenting obvious benefits to cities and municipalities.
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