Hermann Fruhm and Randy Krochak have come a long way since founding their Vancouver-based production lighting systems company, Parasol Systems, six years ago.

As musicians with a shared knowledge of the entertainment industry, their systems have been used extensively for live gigs and movie premieres, including the opening of 2011’s Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides.

Parasol Systems says it has recently started to attract new types of clients in the film and TV industry.

Last week, the company noted in a press release, it made its European debut on the Eurovision Song Contest 2012. That deployment involved its Kinetic Light Ring (KLR) system (shown), a single-motor turntable with lights that ranges in size from 10 feet to 30 feet in diameter and can be rotated indefinitely or stopped in any position.

Also earlier this month its KLR received a product of the year award from Live Design, a New York magazine that covers the live event industry.

Meanwhile last year, its Automated Cart System (ACS), which is comprised of self-propelled, wirelessly controlled carts that carry lights, cameras, pyrotechnics, or other devices, in any number or combination, along a track following a predefined path, was used on the American Idol season finale.

According to the company, the ACS comes in three sizes and is scalable to suit anything from a stadium to a cruise ship. They add that it differs from other lighting systems in that the lights physically move along the track, as opposed to being clamped to a truss.