Summary
Echelon is a pioneer and world leader in control networking technology for automation systems. Companies use our products and solutions in virtually every type of automation application.
Leading manufacturers, system integrators, and network providers around the world rely on our technology to expand service offerings, increase customer satisfaction, reduce costs, and achieve higher profits. In fact, in the time it takes to read this sentence, millions of Echelon enabled smart devices will automatically monitor themselves, respond to their environment, communicate with each other, and report to network control centers. Systems based on our technology provide business insight, drive performance, and deliver results.
Description
Utility Automation
Our Networked Energy Services (NES) system transforms the utility infrastructure from a conventional energy delivery pipe into a sophisticated two-way customer care network. The NES system can help reduce energy consumption, enhance customer satisfaction, and improve grid reliability. It can pinpoint power outages instantly and avoid blackouts and brownouts by reducing stress on the grid. The NES system lets utilities offer customizable tariff plans, completely changeable over the network, that serve the market better and increase consumer choice. And, because it's based on LonWorks networks, the NES system lays the groundwork for value-added services by enabling connectivity beyond the electric meter to devices in homes and businesses.
Building Automation
Your lighting system comes from one vendor, HVAC from another, and elevators, access, and security from others still. The challenge is getting all these systems to work together smoothly and efficiently. Government agencies and commercial real estate developers worldwide are moving to open building automation systems, making creating products and services to meet open system standards a business imperative. We provide the core component technology, network operating system and management software tools, and IP connectivity that helps product and system manufacturers as well as system integrators compete in a open systems world.
Industrial Automation
Embedding our technology in a single device simplifies internal wiring, reduces costs, enhances functionality, and lets the machine monitor its own performance. A Pyxos enabled device can even predict a failure before it occurs. The power of this embedded network is unleashed and multiplied when machines with embedded Pyxos networks are linked across a LonWorks control network. Whether you're looking for a control system spanning simple sensors or a unified networking technology to manage a complex SCADA application, Pyxos enabled machines and LonWorks control networks deliver more of the information you need, when you need it.
Transportation Automation
Municipalities were among the first to leverage LonWorks networks, which is why we're a global leader of intelligent control networks for municipal transportation applications. Our technology controls everything from simple sensor monitoring to complex interlocks and sequencing, in vehicles and controllers such as bullet trains, traffic lights, subways, and ships.
Home Automation
Embedding our technology into consumer products for the home brings features such as remote diagnostics and pay-per-use capabilities to the market for the first time, creating a new generation of smart appliances that are more efficient, and easier to use and maintain. The added convenience and cost-effectiveness of these products will spark consumer demand, promote customer loyalty, and encourage repeat purchases. Ultimately, they'll change the very nature of the customer relationship as manufacturers shift from a traditional product developer into the role of service provider.
Middleware
We're driving enterprise performance to new levels. Our Panoramix® software leverages information from networked devices to deliver key insights into the heart of your business. Panoramix software helps you tap into core operations wherever they may be, extract the data to a central site, and integrate it with your existing strategic business systems to deliver information you can use. Like all Echelon products, Panoramix software is based on open standards so it integrates easily with all your enterprise applications, including ERP and CRM--even custom applications. This melding of operational and strategic systems enables the real-time enterprise by delivering a clear picture of where costs originate and how to reduce them, locating inefficiencies and how to eliminate them, and how to provide a higher-quality customer experience.