Echelon Corporation - Echelon Technology Selected for China's Growing Streetlight Market

Streetlighting i.LONStore this angel in big size(San Jose, CA – May 2007) - Echelon Corporation (NASDAQ: ELON), a arch provider of networking technology that is acclimated to administer and abate activity consumption, appear today that several above highways and bridges in the Yangtze River Delta, one of the fastest growing regions in China, accept called Echelon’s LonWorks® technology to bigger administer artery and arch lighting systems for added security, beautification, and bargain activity consumption. The lighting ascendancy arrangement will be installed and managed by Echelon’s Authorized Network Integrator Nanjing Lianhong Automation Co, Ltd.
“China’s top advance busline basement area has put an burning brand on award the a lot of avant-garde solutions for managing the country’s ability quality, aegis and activity administration processes,” said Baocai Wu, Nanjing Lianhong’s CEO. “Echelon’s ultra-reliable LonWorks technology and articles accommodate the ideal basement appropriate for abiding projects like artery and arch lighting. The accessible technology ensures that articles from assorted manufacturers can be added to the system, now or in the future. The adeptness to add new functionality, adapt activity accumulation applications, and conduct limited administration were the key attributes that led to the alternative of the LonWorks belvedere as the base of the all-embracing solution.”
Project integrator Nanjing Lianhong bare to actualize an open, adjustable and reliable lighting ascendancy arrangement to abate activity burning and access security. Using Echelon’s i.LON® Internet servers and LonWorks accessible standards networking agreement over a individual cilia optic network, Nanjing Lianhong is able to action a arrangement that can accidentally ascendancy and adviser substations, anhydrate equipment, and serve as the accessible artery and arch lighting system.
One of the world’s aboriginal accessible IP-based artery and arch implementations, added than 1,500 of China’s artery and arch articulation ascendancy credibility will be anchored with Echelon’s LonWorks networking agreement enabled FT acute transceivers. Echelon’s i.LON Internet server extends the bounded across networks over the Internet and IP networks acceptance all of the sites to be accidentally monitored application PCs and acute around no charge for manpower. The arrangement allows for bigger activity administration and conservation, added security, and added able aliment and operations. Furthermore the networked lighting arrangement will be leveraged to adorn highways and bridges, axis the closing into added notable landmarks.
“This win extends Echelon’s lighting ascendancy solutions to one of the world’s a lot of important markets, and demonstrates the charge for open, standards-based ascendancy networks in both abreast and abiding projects,” said Ken Oshman, Echelon’s administrator and CEO. “Energy administration is a abundant account of networked accessible lighting systems, and China’s new artery and arch lighting ascendancy arrangement exemplifies the allowances of LonWorks networks – ultra-reliable ascendancy networks, accessible supplier markets now and into the future, and acute adaptability in function.”
The afterward locations will use LonWorks based solutions for lighting systems:
•Shanghai and Nanjing highway, accoutrement 288 km, a key aisle bond the cities of Shanghai and Nanjing;
•Shanghai, Zhejian, Anhui and Jiangsu Expressway, a key artery bond four provinces;
•Jiangsu SuTong Yangzi River Bridge, one of the longest abeyance bridges in China; and
•Hangzhou Qiantang River No. 4 Bridge.

About Nanjing Lianhong Automation, Co. Ltd

Nanjing Lianhong Automation is a arch LonWorks arrangement integrator specializing in the accessible basement area and offers avant-garde automation solutions for bigger activity administration and bargain aliment operations. More advice about Nanjing Lianhong Automation can be begin at www.nla.com.cn/english/.

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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