Daintree Networks, Inc. announced today that lighting and communications industry veteran Danny Yu has joined the company as its CEO. This announcement comes in conjunction with Daintree’s strategic market shift into delivering industry-leading wireless lighting control solutions for commercial buildings.

Founded in 2003, Daintree established itself as the leader in embedded wireless sensor network analysis, resulting in hundreds of customers and deep smart energy industry relationships. Beginning in mid 2007, the company also began developing and delivering robust, custom wireless mesh network solutions for multiple vertical applications. Since early 2009, the company completely shifted its product and market development on lighting control solutions for broad commercial deployment. According to OnWorld the wireless lighting market including controls has a market potential of $32.8B and is expected to grow from $90M in 2009 to $706M by 2013.

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