90 Million Energy-Aware LonWorks Devices Worldwide
(Frankfurt, Germany - April 12, 2010) - Echelon Corporation (NASDAQ: ELON) announced today that there are 90 million LonWorks® Neuron® chips worldwide, the intelligence behind LonWorks control networks. LonWorks technology is used by OEM product manufacturers and system integrators to create and implement next generation control networks and smart energy management solutions. The announcement was made today at the 2010 Light+Building event in Frankfurt, Germany. http://light-building.messefrankfurt.com/.
The LonWorks platform is based on the ISO/IEC 14908 body of standards and is used in control applications ranging from commercial building automation, to smart grid and demand response programs to remotely monitored streetlights.
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LonWorks technology is also the core control networking technology used in Echelon’s Networked Energy Systems (NES) smart grid solutions deployed by utilities worldwide in Austria, Denmark, Finland, Germany, The Netherlands, Russia, Sweden, Switzerland, the United States, and other countries.
For more than two decades, Echelon’s innovative LonWorks platform has let companies build smart, energy-aware, and connected products and solutions that provide the comfort, security, and automation that millions of people rely on every day. In building systems like lighting and air conditioning; security applications like maternity ward baby monitoring; and automation systems like subway doors, lights, and signage, the LonWorks platform is the underlying control networking technology—achieving better economies for its customers, and a better environment for us all.
Key manufacturers and customers using LonWorks technology include:
- Honeywell, Siemens, Johnson Controls, Distech Controls, Schneider, and Kieback & Pieter, Tong Fang and Yamatake all use LonWorks technology in building automation and enterprise energy management solutions.
- Samsung and Kyung Dong use LonWorks technology in their home automation solutions.
- Philips Lighting uses LonWorks technology as the foundation for its remotely controlled streetlight solution, called Starsense.
- EnerNOC uses LonWorks technology in its automated demand response solutions.
- Italy’s electric utility, Enel, is using LonWorks technology to network over 30 million smart meters in the world’s largest advanced metering project.
“LonWorks technology is at the forefront of the rapidly expanding energy management industry, and is used in everything from smart grid applications like advanced metering infrastructure and demand response programs to remotely controlled streetlights and building automation systems, all to reduce energy use,” said Anders Axelsson, Echelon’s senior vice-president of sales and marketing. “With 90 million intelligent LonWorks devices already deployed worldwide, Echelon is the market-leader in smart control networks for energy efficiency, and increased security and convenience.”
Axelsson continued, “There are an estimated 125,000 LonWorks enabled buildings in Europe, all saving approximately 20% annually on energy use, thanks to LonWorks technology.” According to the EPA’s carbon equivalency calculator, the carbon equivalent of the savings is equal to the greenhouse gases emitted by six million passenger vehicles in a single year.
The LonWorks platform is featured this week at the 2010 Light+Building event in Frankfurt, Germany, http://light-building.messefrankfurt.com/ . Visit Echelon and partners in the LonMark booth, hall 9.0 booth E10.
More information about the LonWorks platform and the entire suite of products can be found at http://www.echelon.com/lonworks.
About Echelon Corporation
Echelon Corporation (NASDAQ: ELON) is leading the worldwide transformation of the electricity grid into a smart, communicating energy network, connecting utilities to their customers, enabling networking of everyday devices, and providing customers with energy aware homes and businesses that react to conditions on the grid.
Echelon's NES System – the backbone for the smart grid – is used by utilities to replace existing stand-alone electricity meters with a network infrastructure that is open, inexpensive, reliable, and proven. The NES System helps utilities compete more effectively, reduce operating costs, provide expanded services and help energy users manage and reduce overall energy use. Echelon's LonWorks® Infrastructure products extend the smart grid, powering tens of millions of energy aware, everyday devices made by thousands of companies – connecting them to each other, to the electricity grid and to the Internet. LonWorks based products work together to monitor and save energy; lower costs; improve productivity; and enhance service, quality, safety, and convenience in utility, municipal, building, industrial, transportation, and home area networks.
More information about Echelon can be found at http://www.echelon.com.
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This press release may contain statements relating to future plans, events or performance. Such statements may involve risks and uncertainties, including risks associated with uncertainties pertaining to market acceptance of Echelon’s existing and new products and services and the timing and level of customer orders; risks relating to the timing of availability of LonWorks products; risks that Echelon offerings do not perform as designed and that liability may accrue as a result; the growth of the LonWorks industry; and other risks identified in Echelon's SEC filings. Actual results, events and performance may differ materially. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date hereof. Echelon undertakes no obligation to release publicly the result of any revisions to these forward-looking statements that may be made to reflect events or circumstances after the date hereof or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events.
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