Tolly Group Verifies Echelon’s NES System Scales to Meet Smart Grid Needs of the World’s Largest Utilities
(San Jose, CA - March 22, 2010) - Echelon Corporation (NASDAQ: ELON) today announced the successful results of a scalability and performance test of its market-leading smart metering infrastructure solution, the Networked Energy Services (NES) System by The Tolly Group, a provider of third party validation of IT products and services. The Tolly Group’s independent, hands-on testing and analytics are used by decision makers to verify scalability and performance of IT systems and networks around the world.
Under very demanding smart grid conditions, the tests verified the performance, accuracy, and timeliness from five million residential meters delivering detailed daily smart grid data, equivalent to more than the amount of data from 80 million residential AMI hourly interval meters.
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Echelon’s proven NES System, already deployed worldwide at multiple utilities, provides a feature-rich and integrated system of advanced electronic electricity meters accessed via a Web services-based network operating system over an IP networking infrastructure that offer not only market-leading AMI features, but additional data and services required to realize the smart grid.
The Tolly Group tests proved that the Echelon NES System can scale to a minimum of five million meters even when tasked with delivering high-resolution, detailed smart grid and advanced billing data on a daily basis.
Tolly tested the performance, reliability, accuracy, redundancy and scalability of the NES solution configured to collect not only detailed time of use billing information, but also a rich stream of data befitting a large-scale smart grid application.
Specific test results show that the NES System can:
- Scale to collect comprehensive daily billing data consisting of two time-of-use tiers of daily scheduled reads along with four demand sources and two coincident sources along with four channels of 15 minute profile data related to grid health and status of system attributes such as voltage, current, and other power quality and network health data from five million meters. This is a scalability result equivalent to more than the amount of data from 80 million residential AMI hourly interval meters in a typical AMI application;
- Collect 24 GB of comprehensive metering data in less than six hours, ensuring that detailed data is available at the start of each utility work day;
- Cost-effectively collect data through the use of inexpensive, commercially available hardware and software that utilities have readily at their disposal; and
- Leverage modern data center design techniques to provide redundancy and scalability by distributed services across a number of physical and/or virtual servers in one or more co-located or geographically distributed data centers.
“The goal of the benchmark testing was to prove that the NES System is extremely reliable and that it meets, or exceeds, the most demanding needs of utilities as they look to move beyond first generation AMI and into the smart grid,” said Michael Anderson, Echelon’s senior vice president, NES sales and market development. “Testing to these rigorous requirements proves Echelon’s commitment to stay ahead of the curve and to provide utilities with a smart grid infrastructure that meets their needs today and provides the required foundation to scale with their needs into the future.”
Echelon’s NES technology is used by utilities worldwide in Austria, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, Russia, Sweden, Switzerland, the United States, and other countries.
For more information regarding Echelon’s NES System visit www.echelon.com/nes. The full Tolly Group Report can be found at www.echelon.com/metering/tollyreport/.
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 demand for products and services, and development of markets for Echelon's NES System; risks associated with market acceptance of the NES System; risks associated with scalability of the NES System and NES meters and their ability to perform as designed; 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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