Echelon Joins IP for Smart Objects and ZigBee Alliances

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SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr. 16, 2009--Echelon Corporation (NASDAQ:ELON) announced today that it has joined the IP for Smart Objects (IPSO) Alliance and the ZigBee Alliance– two leading technology trade organizations based on the IEEE 802.15.4 wireless standard. Echelon will be a Promoter member of the IPSO Alliance and a Participant member of the ZigBee Alliance. Echelon brings to these groups its two decades of experience in building interoperable LonWorks® control networks and an extensive ecosystem of leading controls companies, many of which have been integrating wireless technologies with LonWorks based control networks since their inception.

The LonWorks platform – an open, global ISO/IEC standard for building control and an ANSI standard for control networking – is already widely adopted in mature automation markets such as commercial building control as well as emerging energy infrastructure markets such as smart metering (AMI) and smart street lighting. Joining the IPSO and ZigBee Alliances can simplify the integration of devices using these wireless technologies into LonWorks based control systems in home and utility applications.

[an error occurred while processing this directive] Control networks using either power line or twisted pair signaling are reliable, proven, and cost-effective. Wireless technology can play an important role in control networks, enabling isolated or mobile devices to participate as extensions to the network. Providers of LonWorks based control and automation systems have a long history of working with partners to integrate wireless technologies into overall control networks, from RFID tags communicating with twisted-pair connected sensors in infant protection systems in hospitals to self-powered wireless sensors in building automation systems.

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, and providing customers with energy aware homes and businesses that react to conditions on the grid.

More information about Echelon can be found at http://www.echelon.com.
 

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