Echelon's LonWorks® Platform Awarded Prestigious NOVA Award – the Construction Industry's "Nobel Prize"
Founded in 1987, the CIF fosters and encourages innovations in construction worldwide, and its NOVA Award is considered the 'Nobel Prize' for innovation in the industry. Echelon's LonWorks platform joins a select group of only fifty-six innovations that have received the award since its inception in 1989. "There is no trade in the construction industry that has not been dramatically altered by technology and none more deeply than the electrical branch. In a relatively short time, even the most basic job has changed thanks to new tools, new products and new demands from consumers," said Edwin D. Hill, International President of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) who delivered the keynote address at the NOVA Awards ceremony. "It is significant that Echelon Corporation is the first electrical technology company to receive a NOVA Award. Innovations like LonWorks control network technology will ensure that our industry is ready to meet tomorrow's construction demands with confidence." According to Mike Crawford, Chapter Manager of the Michigan Chapter of the National Electrical Contractors Association (NECA), "I am delighted that one of our own – Paul Harrison, an Ann Arbor, Michigan IBEW journeyman – used what he learned as a journeyman to write the winning nomination for Echelon's LonWorks technology. The LonWorks platform developed by Echelon is a key element in the future of members of NECA and the IBEW. We have chosen to educate our members through our joint labor-management training facilities to give them the skills to meet the growing demand for LonWorks systems, increase their value, and keep them current with technologies that we see as standards driving our industry for the foreseeable future." Since March, 2002, the National Joint Apprentice and Training Committee (NJATC), the training program of the NECA and the IBEW, has been working with Echelon to jointly market, advertise, promote, and deliver LonWorks training classes to IBEW and NECA members. Founded in 1891, the IBEW is the largest electrical union in the world. Founded in 1901, NECA is a leading representative of the construction market comprised of over 4,500 electrical contracting firms.
The NOVA Award was awarded for the Control Network Technology on a Chip, the basis of which is the LonWorks Device Controls Technology Platform. LonWorks is an open, non-proprietary technology that connects intelligent devices to each other and the Internet. Any vendor may incorporate LonWorks into its products. NOVA Awards have been awarded to advances in quality and all other areas of the construction industry, including innovations in the construction process and in the materials, design, detailing, fabrication, equipment, procurement, contract administration, management, labor relations, training, and safety that improve the construction process and reduced the cost of construction. NOVA Award jurors must consider the effects on construction processes and facility services; whether or not the innovation has already been a proven success; and whether or not the innovation can be documented and presented. About Echelon Corporation The protocol underlying LonWorks networks and the signaling technology used by Echelon's power line and free topology transceivers have 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 is a sponsor of the LonWorld® Exhibition, the world's largest event devoted to the networking of everyday devices, to be held October 15-16th 2003 in Munich, Germany. The show is being organized by TEMA AG. Concurrent with the LonWorld Exhibition, Echelon will hold an international developers' conference. More information on the show can be found at http://www.lonworldexpo.com or http://www.tema.de. Contact Echelon for more information about the developers' conference. ### Echelon, LonWorks, Neuron, LonWorld, LonMark, and the Echelon logo are
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