R9 Lighting — Custom Lighting Solutions

Why R9

Most lighting companies don't make lighting. They move boxes.

Most fixtures sold under American names were designed overseas by a factory that will never see your property. R9 designs in America — and engineers every site we light.

Aerial of a retail site at night before R9 — harsh bright pools directly under some poles, large dark voids between them

Actual site, before R9 — a beautiful property, ruined after dark. Hot spots under the poles, darkness in between: much of the lot below IES-recommended light levels, and a real insurance liability if someone gets hurt.

Usually, no one engineered it.

Walk any parking lot at night and you can see whether the lighting was engineered for the site. Often, it wasn’t. Fixtures were bought from a catalog and hung where the old ones were. The owner expected good results and relied on lighting professionals to deliver them — after all, owners aren’t out walking the lot at midnight. And the professionals? They were sure they knew what they were doing and did it at a price lower than anybody else. Neither ever realized the result was substandard. The brands sound established; the engineering never happened.

1 — Photometric design

R9 photometric design — calculated light levels and fixture placements over the actual site plan

Engineering is the difference.

What do we mean by engineering? It means selecting the correct optic for each fixture so it directs light exactly where it’s needed to minimize dark areas, sizing the power output so light levels are consistent — and balancing several other factors like these to deliver the best result the circumstances allow.

R9 starts every project with photometrics — using software, we are able to simulate how various lighting selections impact the result. After the necessary adjustments, we create a 3D rendering of the finished site. The process can easily take several days of work on larger sites. We focus on light levels and uniformity: no hot spots under poles, no dark areas between poles, and minimal glare. We design our own fixtures, tool our own optics, and prove the design before a single pole goes up. The rendering isn't a sales picture — it's a prediction. Then we build it, and it matches.

2 — 3D Rendering

3D light rendering predicting exactly how the finished lot will look at night

3 — Built reality

Drone photo of the finished site at night — matching the prediction

Bridgeport Village before R9 — a previous LED conversion left the lot patchy and dark

The same lot after the R9 redo — bright, even light across every stall and lane

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Yes — this entire site was already LED before we fixed it.

Done right costs less than done twice.

Much of our work today is replacing LED "upgrades" sold just a few years ago — first-generation retrofits that saved energy and ruined the light. The fixtures were real; the engineering wasn't. Done right the first time costs less than done twice.

Featured Projects

Engineered case by case.
Proven site by site.

01 — PARKING LOT LIGHTING

Engineered lots, proven at scale

Parking lot lighting is where R9 leads the industry. Every site is engineered — a full photometric design sets pole locations, mounting heights, and optics so the finished lot delivers bright, even light across every stall and drive lane, with no dark pockets and no glare.

Efficiency is engineered in just as deliberately. R9's in-house-designed fixture delivers up to 186 lumens per watt — among the most efficient in the industry — and pairs with wireless controls running active motion-sensor, zone-based dimming: full light where people are, savings everywhere else. Together they routinely reduce energy use by more than 90%.

Even installation is engineered: R9's quick-mount design cuts fixture install time to minutes, keeping labor costs down and the lot open for business.

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Dusk aerial of The Village — R9 parking lot lighting glowing evenly across the entire property

Aerial of Streets of Brentwood at night — R9 parking lot lighting, bright and even across every lot

Peterson Chevrolet dealership at sunset — R9 lot lighting rendering every vehicle bright and true-color

Aerial of Bridgeport Village at night — parking fields evenly lit by R9 fixtures

Aerial of Nyberg Rivers at night — uniform R9 parking lot lighting across the entire site

Dusk aerial of Meridian Crossroads — R9 parking lot lighting, bright and uniform across the full retail center

Dusk aerial of Canyon Park East above the Snake River canyon — R9 parking lot lighting, even light to the canyon rim

Aerial of St. Luke's Meridian hospital campus at night under a rising moon — R9 parking lot lighting across the entire medical campus

Shown: The Village · Streets of Brentwood · Peterson Chevrolet · Bridgeport Village · Nyberg Rivers · Meridian Crossroads · Canyon Park East · St. Luke’s Meridian.

Roundabout district at night before retrofit — dark streets and crosswalks

The same roundabout after R9 Neri 600 retrofits — streets and crosswalks evenly lit

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Plaza at night before retrofit — walkways dark and uninviting

The same plaza after R9 Neri 600 retrofits — bright, even, and welcoming

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Same plaza, same fixtures (Neri 600) — custom R9 retrofits inside the existing decorative poles. Actual unretouched photos.

02 — CUSTOM RETROFIT

Neri Light 600 Retrofit

Two high-end outdoor destination centers had invested heavily in their architecture — several hundred matching poles, lighting fixtures, benches, and trash cans, all by the Italian maker Neri. Each fixture held three candelabra bulbs: beautiful ambient mood lighting, but never designed to light the site. A conventional upgrade meant replacing the Italian poles and fixtures — and losing the "old European" aesthetic they'd invested in.

At the Utah property, an upscale 55+ apartment community had just been built, yet the surrounding roads, crosswalks, and roundabout — all on Neri 600 poles — had almost no usable light.

Instead of replacing anything, R9 took a sample Neri 600 fixture and engineered a retrofit from the ground up — creating new tooling for aluminum extrusions, steel plates, and polycarbonate optics. The retrofit hides entirely inside the original housing and keeps all three candelabras, delivering 50× the light output with the aesthetic unchanged. Wireless controls let the owner schedule it through the night, dim it after hours, or run the candelabras alone when the scene calls for it.

No other company offers per-project, ground-up engineering that includes new tooling — R9's rapid prototyping and manufacturing make it possible at a reasonable cost.

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Bay Street AMC before — static warm floodlighting

Bay Street AMC after — R9 full-color DMX façade

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03 — FAÇADE LIGHTING UPGRADE

Remotely Managed Full-Color and Full-Motion DMX Façade

Originally a static system prone to frequent failures, R9 Lighting engineered and installed a DMX-controlled, full-color and full-motion LED lighting solution — every building outline addressable, every scene programmable, remotely programmed and managed by R9.

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Bay Street aerial before — dim, patchy façade floodlighting

Bay Street aerial after — full-color DMX gradient across the entire façade

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The whole façade, before and after — from failing static floodlights to a single addressable canvas.

Festoon lighting spanning the promenade with full-color DMX façade outlines

04 — FAÇADE & FESTOON

Wireless Full-Color DMX Façade & Festoon Lighting Upgrade

The original façade lighting was hardwired behind sheetrock — repairs meant tenant disruption, and the system was limited to white light. The new fully wireless, DMX-controlled color system covers the entire facility, with festoon lighting in select areas.

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One continuous, unedited take — driving out of the original lighting, into the R9-upgraded section, and back out again. The difference speaks for itself.

Parking garage before upgrade — dim, uneven amber lighting

The same garage aisle after R9 upgrade — bright, even white light

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05 — PARKING STRUCTURES

Parking Garage Lighting Upgrade

This client had a crime problem, especially in the garage — and the lighting that made it worse: dim, uneven, and full of dark pockets, yet still expensive to run and maintain. The new R9 system delivers bright, uniform light across every level while drawing less power, and its wireless controls cut operating costs even further. Drag the image to compare.

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R9 wireless control dashboard — every garage fixture mapped on the floor plan with live status, power draw, and dimming

With over 1,000 fixtures on site, wireless control was imperative — the system manages the lighting remotely, alerts on any outage, and drives motion-based dimming to maximize energy savings while maintaining customer safety.

06 — Government Scale

Trusted at national-infrastructure scale.

The same engineering that transforms a plaza delivers on government infrastructure. For the government of Abu Dhabi, R9 has relit ports, streets, and public facilities.

3,000+

Three Major Ports, One Program

Fixtures installed across all three major Abu Dhabi ports — high-mast, street, flood, and high-bay lighting replaced in a single program.

High-mast ring fitted with R9 LED flood fixtures at an Abu Dhabi port

1,200+

Khalifa Port Streets

Street lights changed over at Khalifa Port, Abu Dhabi — a complete conversion of the port's roadway lighting.

New R9 streetlights lining the roadway at Khalifa Port, Abu Dhabi

Day One

Trail X Bike Park

All-new lighting for Trail X on Al Hudayriyat Island — Abu Dhabi's first dedicated 15 km mountain-bike trail park. Its trails are color-coded by difficulty — green, blue, red, and black — so R9 delivered fixtures custom-finished in all four colors to match.