In 2006, Bernard Têtu and Pierre Chaput founded Dimonoff in Québec City — a name forged from Dim-On-Off, the three states of light. Their ambition: to transform public lighting into intelligent, data-driven infrastructure.

Daniel Noiseux joined shortly after, in 2008, bringing his business development expertise and grounding the group’s commercial ambitions.

The company grew fast. In 2012, the City of Mississauga entrusted it with over 50,000 streetlights — the first large-scale smart city project in Canada. Other municipalities followed. Today, more than 575 projects, 850,000 connected devices, and a presence in 15 countries place the group among the top five worldwide in smart street lighting.

In 2018, Dimonoff acquired Amotus, an electronic design house founded in 2013 in Québec City. This vertical integration added hardware and firmware expertise to the group’s software capabilities — a rare combination that allows it to design, manufacture, and deploy complete IoT solutions under one roof.

Amotus also develops and maintains Fundamentum, an IoT Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) that serves as the technological foundation for Vectanor’s solutions and several of Amotus’s client products. Entirely designed and maintained by Amotus’s teams, Fundamentum is not a division — it is the infrastructure that enables connecting, managing, and analyzing thousands of IoT devices with reliability, security, and scalability.

By 2026, the Dimonoff name — inseparable from lighting — no longer reflected the full scope of the group’s activities. The parent company became Groupe Vectanor. Dimonoff continues its mission within the lighting division, alongside Spatium (parking management optimization), Amotus (IoT engineering), and Vigilia (incident identification and tactical intervention support).

The name Vectanor comes from the concept of a vector: a direction, a force, a trajectory. It reflects the conviction that a technology group must not only provide tools — it must set the course.