(SAN JOSE, CA – April 2007) - Echelon Corporation (NASDAQ: ELON), a arch provider of networking technology that is acclimated to administer and abate activity consumption, today appear a new ability band based chip ambit that promises to acceleration and abridge the conception of chump affable home automation products. Echelon’s PL 3170 Power Line Smart Transceiver allows manufacturers to actualize networked home ascendancy articles that install automatically if acquainted into a bank – eliminating the abhorrence and technology aggravation that consumers accessory with home automation. This new ability band acute transceiver is the latest accession to the company’s LonWorks® articles and Digital Home® (www.digitalhome.com) technologies - accouterments and software articles that are allowance to drive the common home automation market.
“Energy administration is the key disciplinarian for home automation, and the accessories that can advice accomplish a home added activity able – lights, fans, blinds, acute appliances, furnaces, air-conditioners, and ability outlets – are already affiliated to the ability wiring. With our ability band technology, these accessories are already affiliated to the network,” said Bea Yormark, Echelon’s admiral and COO. “The new ability band acute cavity adds automated accession to what is, easily down, the a lot of reliable band-aid on the home automation bazaar today. Now manufacturers accept a ‘no new wires’ home automation band-aid that’s aswell low cost, easy-to-develop, and doesn’t crave the advice of an installer or electrician to install.” Echelon’s automated accession software is accepted as Interoperable Self-Installation (ISI).
Echelon’s PL 3170 Smart Transceiver combines the industry’s arch ability band signaling technology with an applications processor and ISI software – all in a individual chip. The new cavity aswell allows apparatus manufacturers to calmly and inexpensively actualize articles in accordance with the CECED (European Committee of Manufacturers of Domestic Appliances) Household Appliances Control and Monitoring – Application Interworking Specification (AIS) standard. The PL 3170 Smart Transceiver can be acclimated in affiliation with Echelon’s abounding ambit of LonWorks products, or independently.
The PL 3170 Power Line Smart Transceiver will be accessible in summer of 2007. Contact Echelon for aggregate pricing.
More About Echelon’s ISI and Power Line Technology
Reflecting a advance in artlessness and ease-of-use, Echelon's ISI technology makes abacus multi-zone lighting, multi-zone heating control, and pool/spa controls as simple as active in a ability cord. Devices able with ISI software are alluringly ill-fitted to the home ambiance because they do not charge specialized software or programming to work. As anon as ability is activated or a "service" action is activated, the accessories ascertain one addition and configure themselves into absolutely anatomic ascendancy systems. System changes, such as the accession of a new accessory or alteration a lighting scene, can crop abode at any time after any ability or training on the allotment of the user.
In accession to accustomed operation, Echelon’s Power Line Smart Transceivers accommodate reliable, bidirectional communications over switched-leg circuits, a accepted accident in over 50% of American homes if the Neutral wire is missing. Another different affection of Echelon’s Power Line Smart Transceivers involves its adeptness to admeasurement electricity. Echelon chips installed in switches, outlets, constituent modules and added accepted articles can allotment activity burning advice with consumers and utilities to advice bigger administer activity in homes. More advice about ability band ascendancy networking can be begin at www.echelon.com/products/oem/transceivers/smartpl/default....
More About the Digital Home Alliance
The Digital Home Alliance (DHA) was formed to action consumers a new bearing of networkable home automation articles based on Echelon’s market-leading LonWorks ascendancy networking technology. Its associates are committed to creating automatic and affordable articles that can be calmly affiliated in a home automation network. DHA offers installers an aberrant befalling to bear value-added articles and casework to consumers. When consumers see the Digital Home logo on a artefact that has met DHA standards, they'll apperceive that it will plan seamlessly – appropriate out of the box – with any added Digital Home artefact in their home automation network. More advice on the Digital Home Alliance can be begin at www.digitalhome.com.
About Echelon Corporation
Echelon Corporation (NASDAQ:ELON) is networking aggregation that provides articles and systems that can adviser and save energy, lower costs, advance abundance and enhance service, quality, assurance and accessibility by networking calm accustomed accessories in utility, buildings, industrial, busline and home ascendancy systems. Tens of millions of acute accessories based on Echelon’s LonWorks articles and Networked Energy Services (NES) systems are in use about the apple today bringing allowances to consumers and industry. More advice about Echelon can be begin at www.echelon.com.
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