CommScope acquires Redwood Systems

CommScope has acquired Redwood Systems, a provider of LED lighting solutions and integrated sensor networks for data centers and buildings.

The acquisition will strengthen CommScope's position in intelligent building infrastructure solutions, enabling the company to provide comprehensive and automated infrastructure management platforms. With upcoming enhancements to optimize its operation over twisted pair cabling, the Redwood Systems platform can be deployed over CommScope's structured cabling infrastructure.

Redwood developed the world's first smart building platform that powers and controls lights with a high-density sensor grid. This platform provides energy savings that average 75 percent improvement over traditional fluorescent lighting systems for office buildings and 90 percent improvement for data centers, with granular monitoring of space utilization, temperature and power consumption.

"By adding Redwood's solutions, we expect to better meet our customers' desire for improved energy efficiency and provide a cost-effective platform for enabling truly intelligent buildings," said Kevin St Cyr, Senior Vice President, Enterprise Solutions, CommScope. "Tremendous insight on building usage can be obtained from analyzing the centrally stored data from the sensor network enabling efficiency improvements and capabilities well beyond efficient lighting."