Echelon Highlights Home Networking at 2002 International CES(LAS VEGAS, Nevada - January 8, 2002) - Echelon Corporation (NASDAQ: ELON) announced today far-reaching activities at the 2002 Consumer Electronics Show taking place January 8-11 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Using home appliances, lighting control modules and other products, Echelon's booth (South Hall of the Las Vegas Convention Center, booth #13448) illustrates how LonWorks® technology can enable everyday devices in our homes to be networked together easily and inexpensively to save consumers time and money and make our lives more comfortable and more convenient. LonWorks networks are also being shown by CES Best of Innovations award winner BeAtHome and by Fleetwood Enterprises in conjunction with Intel Corporation as part of Fleetwood's next generation "smart" recreational vehicle (RV) that uses LonWorks device networking technology as part of an Intel designed network. "As we are showing at CES, LonWorks networks provide a robust, low-cost, simple, and worldwide solution for networking all of the everyday devices in our homes and for delivering enhanced services to these devices over the Internet," said Bea Yormark, Echelon's president and COO. "Even more importantly, what we are showing is not just a demo of what could be done but an example of what is being done. This past year saw the announcement of many important LonWorks projects in the home market - from the initial large scale deployments of a planned 27 million smart electricity metering project in Italy by Enel S.p.A., to the introduction of consumer-priced lighting control modules from HalenSmart, to the first deployment of smart home appliances in a residential complex by Samsung in Korea - and we are even more excited about this coming year." Echelon's booth features web-accessed networked appliances from Merloni and Samsung and lighting control modules from HalenSmart that use Echelon's field-proven, ANSI/EIA 709.2-compliant PLT-22 Power Line Transceiver to communicate over the power wiring. Visitors to the booth can interact with and control the appliances based on energy services and user preferences. The HalenSmart modules control various lamps throughout Echelon's booth and have recently received interoperability certification from the LonMark® Interoperability Association, becoming the first consumer products to achieve this distinction. Booth visitors can also view the web pages for the value-added services associated with Whirlpool Corporation's LonWorks enabled smart oven. BeAtHome's booth, South Hall booth #16442, shows a LonWorks enabled prototype of the BeAtHome appliance that communicates over the power lines with low-cost LonWorks powered lighting control modules from HalenSmart. Through the intuitive BeAtHome interface, consumers can easily make the HalenSmart lighting modules part of their home's automated security, comfort, energy management or convenience routines, view their status, and control their state over the Internet though any web browser - from a PC top a cell phone. Earlier today in a separate news release Echelon announced a definitive agreement to acquire BeAtHome. Parked outside the main convention center entrance, Fleetwood, the nation's largest manufacturer of recreational vehicles and a leading producer and retailer of manufactured housing, is showing their next generation smart coach. Planned for production later this year, this next generation, state-of-the-art coach extends the technology, convenience, and value of the first version coach to encompass greater use of the LonWorks platform for device networks. The scope of Fleetwood's original work on the RV has expanded to incorporate WiFi (802.11b) wireless networking technology for the coach's high-speed data network, add wireless Compaq iPaq handheld personal digital assistants for accessing the system, and extend the LonWorks device network to more "household" items. The Intel designed network and application software interfaces with the coach's LonWorks device network via Echelon's LNS™ network operating system to control LonWorks enabled door locks, curtains, a Samsung washing machine, lighting, HVAC, and slide-out living room and bedroom control systems. About Echelon Corporation The protocol underlying LonWorks networks and the signaling used by Echelon's power line and free topology transceivers have both been adopted as standards by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). Echelon is also a founding member of the LonMark® Interoperability Association, an open industry forum of hundreds of leading manufacturers, integrators, and users dedicated to promoting the use of interoperable LonWorks devices. More information is available at http://www.lonmark.org. Further information regarding Echelon can be found at http://www.echelon.com. ### Echelon, LonWorks, LonMark, the LonMark logo, and the Echelon logo are trademarks of Echelon Corporation registered in the United States and other countries. i.LON, LNS, and Bringing the Internet to Life are trademarks of Echelon Corporation. Other marks belong to their respective holders. 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 obtaining approvals for and satisfying conditions to the consummation of the acquisition of BeAtHome, the successful integration of Echelon and BeAtHome's technology, products and services, risks that the R&D activities or subsequent product deployment activities with Enel are not successful, do not meet their target dates, or are terminated, or that the contemplated transactions are challenged by third parties, risks that our development projects with other parties are not successful, the timing and level of customer orders, demand for products and services, acceptance of Echelon's products for use in home networks, development of markets for Echelon's products and services, and other risks identified in Echelon's SEC filings. Actual results, effect on earnings, 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. Contact Information
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