Echelon and Partners To Demonstrate the Internet Integrated Home at Interbuild 2000i.home Exhibit Will Highlight Benefits Of Connected Lifestyle(Palo Alto, CA - May 19, 2000) - Echelon Corporation (NASDAQ: ELON) today announced that its LonWorks® system will power the i.home, the centerpiece of this year's Interbuild 2000 exhibition taking place May 21 - 25 in Birmingham, UK. With an anticipated 100,000 visitors from over 100 countries, Interbuild 2000 is the largest show for the home and building industry in the UK. In the i.home exhibit, a LonWorks network enables appliances, lighting, central heating boiler, energy metering, and security systems from manufacturers including Axis, Echelon, Enermet, Kaba, Merloni, SeaChange, Toshiba, and Zytron to communicate with each other and over the Internet. The i.home exhibit demonstrates the new markets and applications -- from pay-per-wash washing machines, to 24-hour panic alarm monitoring, to remote appliance maintenance and diagnostics -- that can be delivered over the Internet with LonWorks networks and the i.LON™ Internet server and the cost reductions, quality improvements, and other consumer benefits that they provide. "The i.home exhibit is important not only because it shows the home comfort, security, convenience, cost savings, and peace-of-mind benefits that connected devices bring," said Geoff Ross, marketing director of Interbuild. "It is important because all of the products in the i.home exhibit are commercially available today. Echelon is showing not what can be done, but what is being done today and the benefits that LonWorks networks and the Internet deliver to consumers and service providers." The i.home embodies Echelon's vision of the Digital Home® network, a service-driven model of home networking. In the i.home, a kitchen equipped with LonWorks enabled appliances from Merloni will demonstrate how, for example, one can log on to the Internet from work and tell their oven to start cooking the pot roast left there that morning. A warm dinner will then await the family upon their arrival home. Intelligent LonWorks electricity metering and gateway products will enable a homeowner to monitor and control their electricity usage, a necessity in countries such as Switzerland, Germany, and Italy where energy use is already strictly regulated. A web camera, located at the front door of the i.home, will demonstrate security and access services such as the ability to remotely view your maid at your door and let her into the house while you are at the office. Additional features of the i.home include: a lounge and study area with various human interface points; LonWorks enabled heating, air conditioning, and boiler control units; and several other intelligent devices such as lamps, smoke detectors, and a washing machine. The i.home exhibit will be open for all five days of Interbuild. In addition to the i.home, this year's show will include displays from approximately 2000 manufacturers and suppliers from 30 different countries, and is expected to attract more than 100,000 visitors from the UK and beyond. More information can be found on the Internet at www.interbuild.com. About Echelon Corporation Products that have been verified to conform to Echelon's LonMark® interoperability guidelines are eligible to carry the LonMark logo, an indicator that a product has been designed to interoperate over a LonWorks network. Echelon is based in Palo Alto, California, with international offices in China, France, Germany, Japan, Korea, The Netherlands, and the United Kingdom. Further information can be found at http://www.echelon.com. Further information about the LonMark Interoperability Association can be found at http://www.lonmark.org. ### Echelon, LonWorks, LonMark, the LonMark logo, Digital Home, and the Echelon logo are trademarks of Echelon Corporation registered in the United States and other countries. i.LON is a trademark of Echelon Corporation. Other marks belong to their respective holders. Contact Information
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