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About Echelon

Echelon is a network infrastructure company that provides open, standards-based solutions for the utility, buildings, home, industrial, and transportation industries. Our products and services allow everyday devices—such as electricity meters, appliances, thermostats, air conditioners, and lighting systems—to communicate with one another and across the Internet. Today thousands of companies offer products and services based on our open LonWorks® standard and about 100 million LonWorks devices have been installed worldwide.

Echelon’s products and services are offered to a variety of diverse markets, including electric utilities, building automation, industrial automation, demand response, street lighting, home control and transportation.

As the inventor of LonWorks technology, an open, international standard for networking of everyday devices supported by thousands of companies worldwide, Echelon is uniquely qualified to provide utilities with an open system that will afford it the opportunity to enhance features and functionality over time and select products and services from multiple suppliers.

Echelon's Networked Energy Services System — the NES System — is the world’s leading solution for a utility’s smart metering and AMI needs. A software-driven, smart grid solution, the NES System incorporates smart meters, data concentrators, and system software. Unlike an RF solution that uses an add-on communications card bolted to a meter, the NES System resides in the electricity wires, converting a utility’s existing metering system into a smart energy network. This allows the system to provide grid intelligence — about the quality of the electricity, the efficiency of its delivery, and even the health of other assets on the wire.

Built on the success of the world’s first and largest AMI project (over 30 million homes), the NES System has changed the global landscape for smart metering. With the NES System, smart metering and AMI systems are no longer focusing on the meter, but on an energy network for a smarter grid.