Bright Innovations develops information and communication technologies designed to support the smart city vision of a smart and shared environment for people, vehicles, and devices inhabiting the urban environment. The company achieves its goal primarily through its Coral Reef solution, an open smart city platform divided into three parts. The first part entails the Coral Reef engine units (or nodes), which are embedded into or attached to street lights and have advanced communications and processing capabilities. The second part of the system is the Bright Innovations app store, a cloud-based data center where third-party applications can utilize onboard hardware to provide smart cities with a multitude of applications and solutions. Collection and analysis in cloud-based data repositories enables big data and artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities. The third part of the Bright Innovations platform is a gateway for application developers and users that provides advanced control and monitoring features.