Virticus Corporation is a Portland, Oregon based provider of automated networked control systems for outdoor lighting arrays. The company’s products, which are currently installed in customer sites, include:
- Rialto, a lighting controller that enables lighting to be integrated and managed as a network, and provides information for reducing energy use and maintenance costs
- Ventura, a site manager and gateway
- Malibu, a lighting control portal
- PhotoChron, a schedule-based outdoor lighting controller
- ActionLight, an event-driven outdoor lighting controller
This smart grid (Demand Response two-way) compliant system replaces existing ‘dumb’ photo sensors which only switch streetlights on or off with the sun, and lack dimming and remote control capability.
Virticus has a working solution for any luminaire type, including High Pressure Sodium (HPS), LED, and Inductive. Virticus’ unique competitive advantage lies in the patent pending support for dimming LED arrays, integrated software and services and communication of certified power metering information.
Joe Herbst – CEO. Joe has held previous executive roles as the Vice President of Marketing at Ambric, Founder/VP Marketing & Sales at AudioMojo and a Director of Marketing for Pixelworks. Prior to moving to Oregon in 2001, Joe worked in the Bay Area at both startups and large companies such as Intel, Cirrus Logic (PicoPower) and Broadcom (Maverick Networks).
Mark VanWagoner – CTO. Mark has had previous senior engineering roles as Director of Software at Stexar, Engineering Manager at Veris Industries, Senior Manager in charge of enterprise chip sets at Intel Corporation, and Engineering Manager at Raytheon in the areas of software, hardware, and IT. Mark developed a system to auto-land F-18s on aircraft carriers.