Smart Lighting Company in Tupelo, Mississippi

Why Tupelo

Northeast Mississippi builds things. Upholstered furniture plants, distribution centers along I-22, manufacturers and their suppliers, hospitals and clinics, school districts, and the offices and bank branches that serve all of them. Over the last decade many of those buildings swapped fluorescent tubes for LEDs, and a good share picked up networked controls along the way.

What didn't arrive with the hardware was anyone to own the whole system. Reps started up the brands they carried. Contractors installed what was specified. Building automation firms wanted the occupancy data but rarely got it. And when platforms were discontinued, as more than one well-known controls line was in 2025 and 2026, owners were left with ceilings full of devices and nobody neutral to call.

We founded Lytbit in Tupelo in 2025 to be that call. From here, Memphis, Birmingham, Huntsville, and Jackson are all within a half-day's drive. We sit in TVA territory, where utility programs give extra credit for networked controls, and we're close enough to most of our clients' buildings to be there for the second-shift test, not just the kickoff meeting.

What we believe

Six principles we hold ourselves to on every project. They're also a fair way to check our work.

01

Commission everything

Even the parts that 'just work'. Especially those: they're the ones nobody checks until an occupant tapes over a sensor.

02

Write the intent down

A plain-language sequence of operations comes before any programming. You can't test, tune, or hand over an intent nobody wrote.

03

Test results over brand loyalty

We recommend devices because they passed on our bench in the combination you'll actually install, not because of who makes them.

04

The owner owns the system

Admin credentials, databases, configuration reports, and every record in Lytbit Ledger belong to you, and you get copies without having to ask.

05

Measure before claiming

Savings get a baseline, a method, and a range. If we can't measure something, we call it an estimate.

06

Simple beats clever

A wall station everyone understands beats an app nobody opens. Complexity has to earn its place in the ceiling.

Disciplines on the bench

Lighting controls now sit where electrical work, networking, and data meet. We staff all three, and the people who design a system are the people who test it.

01

Controls engineers

Zoning, sequences of operation, specifications, and energy code review. They write the Sequence Book that everything else is tested against.

02

Network and IoT engineers

Segmentation, gateways, BACnet, MQTT, and wireless surveys. They sit down with your IT team before anything joins your network.

03

Data engineers

Lytbit Ledger, M&V baselines, fault rules, and point tagging with Brick and Project Haystack, so the data is usable by more than one tool.

04

Commissioning technicians

Device verification, functional testing, trim with calibrated meters, punch lists, and owner training, including after-hours work in occupied buildings.

05

Project coordinators

Schedules, submittals, site visit reports, and incentive paperwork, with pre-approval and post-inspection deadlines tracked from day one.

What we won't do

Some of these cost us work. We think they're why the work we do get is worth doing.

Take payments or volume incentives from manufacturers tied to which brand you choose.
Keep your passwords, databases, or configuration to make ourselves hard to replace.
Promise a savings percentage before we've seen your building and your bills.
Install a device combination we haven't tested together without telling you first, in writing.
Put your lighting network on the corporate LAN without your IT team's review and sign-off.
Recommend replacing a system that only needs re-commissioning.
Put savings on an incentive application that we can't support with measurements.
Claim experience we don't have. When something is new to us, we'll say so.

What being new means for you

Lytbit is a young company. We don’t have decades of history or a long list of named references, and we won’t pretend otherwise. If your procurement rules require a firm with a long track record on file, we may not be the right fit yet, and we’d rather you know that now.

Here is what you get instead:

The engineers who design your system are the ones on site. There is no handoff from a sales team to a delivery team you’ve never met.
Methods built for current standards. Our process starts from DLC NLC5 and NLC 5.2, DALI-2 and D4i, BACnet/SC, and the functional testing requirements in recent editions of ASHRAE 90.1 and the IECC. Nothing had to be retrofitted onto an older playbook.
Documentation anyone can pick up. Every project ends with records written so that another firm, including a competitor, could take over tomorrow. That is deliberate. It’s the only honest way to ask for your trust.
A bench instead of a reputation. When a device combination is new to us, we test it in the Lab before it reaches your project and send you the Bench Note. You can judge our work by the evidence, not by our word.

Where we work

Our office and the Lytbit Lab are on West Main Street in Tupelo. From there we work on site across three regions:

North Mississippi and Tupelo, including Oxford, Starkville, Columbus, Corinth, and the TVA local power companies that serve them.
Memphis and West Tennessee, where warehouse and distribution work dominates.
North Alabama, from Huntsville and the Shoals to Birmingham.

We also take projects elsewhere in Mississippi, and we do design reviews, bench testing, and Lytbit Ledger monitoring for buildings anywhere in the US. Utility programs differ across this area: TVA EnergyRight through local power companies such as Tupelo Water & Light and MLGW, Entergy Mississippi Solutions for Business, and Mississippi Power’s commercial programs. We prepare the applications and coordinate with your local power company and program staff. Energy code adoption also varies by state and jurisdiction, so we confirm the applicable edition with the authority having jurisdiction on every project.

Keep reading

Our approach: the six-step method, with every document you receive.
Why Lytbit: a plain comparison with reps, contractors, and national firms, including when they’re the better choice.
Careers: the roles we’re hiring for and how our interviews work.

A controls company built where the buildings are