Case Study: Enhanced Visibility Across Nationwide Portfolio
Kimco Realty manages 400 grocery-anchored shopping centers across the US, where parking lot lighting is essential for customer safety and tenant satisfaction. To cut energy use, lower operating costs, and meet sustainability goals, Kimco replaced over 15,000 parking lot fixtures with energy-efficient LEDs. While the LED upgrade brought significant savings, Kimco knew advanced lighting controls could offer even more efficiency. They needed a solution that could scale across large lots and hundreds of properties, provide secure remote access, allow for quick deployment, and give their maintenance team visibility into system performance.
Enhanced Visibility Across Nationwide Portfolio
"We tried several systems and found Synapse to be a very mature and well-proven platform with a very capable and responsive support team behind it."
The Challenge:
Kimco Realty manages 400 grocery-anchored shopping centers across the United States, where parking lot lighting plays a critical role in customer safety, tenant satisfaction, and operational performance. As part of a corporate initiative to reduce energy consumption, lower operating costs, and meet sustainability goals, Kimco began retrofitting more than 15,000 parking lot fixtures with energy-efficient LED lighting.
While the LED upgrade delivered meaningful savings, Kimco recognized that greater efficiency and operational benefits could be achieved through advanced lighting controls. They needed a solution that could scale across large parking lots and hundreds of properties, provide secure remote access, enable rapid deployment, and give their maintenance team visibility into system performance.
The Solution:
Kimco selected the SimplySnap wireless lighting control system from Synapse to manage lighting across its nationwide portfolio. SimplySnap enabled Kimco to establish and automate consistent lighting levels that enhanced safety and customer experience across all locations.
The wireless system allowed Kimco to deploy controls without disrupting existing infrastructure and provided centralized access to monitor and manage lighting remotely. Using SimplySnap, Kimco implemented occupancy-based dimming and scheduling strategies that could be tested at individual locations and quickly replicated across its portfolio.
SimplySnap also provided proactive fixture monitoring and automated alerts, enabling Kimco’s maintenance team to identify and resolve issues before failures occurred. This improved operational efficiency, reduced maintenance costs, and ensured consistently well-lit parking environments.
The Results
By deploying SimplySnap, Kimco successfully reduced operating costs, improved property performance, and enhanced the customer experience across its nationwide portfolio. They saw 30% average energy reduction per site through occupancy-based dimming and scheduling, with some sites seeing results as high as 40%.
- Improved visibility and safety across all parking areas through consistent lighting control
- Reduced maintenance costs with proactive failure detection and automated alerts
- Centralized management of hundreds of properties through a single interface
- Support for corporate sustainability goals, including measurable carbon footprint reduction
- Data-driven decision-making enabled by built-in energy monitoring and reporting