Echelon
Echelon: Change Is Sweeping Through the Electric Power Industry Echelon is the leading supplier of infrastructure hardware and software to the rapidly growing device networking market. Since 1988, Echelon’s solution – the LONWORKS® system – has been adopted by thousands of device and system manufacturers. Echelon is well-positioned to supply products and services to major utilities around the world. Utilities, large and small, can benefit from Echelon’s Networked Energy Services platform (NES).
Historically, because of high cost and limited functionality, utilities have applied automation and control systems only to small, targeted areas of their operations. With the advent of low-cost, standards-based device networking, a new opportunity has arisen to embed a single intelligent infrastructure within the distribution network that enables a broad set of energy services that can dramatically lower operating costs, improve service quality, and increase customer loyalty and satisfaction. A utility taking advantage of this new business opportunity is Enel SpA of Italy, the world’s largest publicly traded electric utility. Enel is using Echelon’s Networked Energy Services (NES) platform to transform the Italian power grid into an intelligent services delivery network that, when fully deployed, will connect to smart, communicating digital electricity meters in more than 27 million Italian homes and buildings at an announced deployment cost of approximately 2.2 billion euros. As of November 2002, more than 5.1 million smart meters have been installed, with new meters being added at a rate of approximately 700,000 per month. By embedding intelligence and communications capability within highly functional smart digital electricity meters, Echelon’s NES platform enables utilities to realize cost savings and revenue enhancements in metering, distribution operations, customer services, and other areas. It enables a comprehensive set of energy services, including two-way automated meter reading; time-of-use and real-time pricing; pre-payment without card; remote physical disconnect and reconnect; distribution system asset optimization;
outage detection and restoration management; blackout and brownout elimination; comprehensive revenue protection; real-time direct load control, and more. Additionally, because the NES system is built on open, ANSI standards-based technology, new devices can be added at any time, anywhere within the network, to deliver new energy ser vices or new deregulated valueadded ser vices at minimal cost. Products and services such as thermostats, boilers, appliances, air handlers, lights, and load control modules based on LONWORKS® technology, the backbone of the NES system, are available from thousands of manufacturers worldwide. By choosing NES, new services – such as remote monitoring, diagnostics, and control of appliances, security monitoring, and medical emergency signaling – can be delivered over the same infrastructure used for regulated utility ser vices, representing almost pure “upside” revenue to a utility. Whether you are a regulated utility looking to lower costs and improve service or a deregulated company looking to offer differentiating, valueadded services, Echelon’s NES system provides the open, field-proven, scalable solutions you need.
About Echelon Echelon Corporation is the creator of the LONWORKS platform, the world’s most widely used standard for connecting ever yday devices such as appliances, thermostats, air conditioners, electric meters, and lighting systems to each other and to the Internet. Echelon’s hardware and software products enable manufacturers and integrators to create smar t devices and systems that lower cost, increase convenience, improve ser vice, and enhance productivity, quality, and safety. Thousands of companies have developed and installed LONWORKS products, and more than 24 million LONWORKS-enabled processors have been shipped for use in homes, buildings, factories, trains, and other systems worldwide.
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www.echelon.com CONTACT INFORMATION M. Kenneth Oshman Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Beatrice Yormark President and Chief Operating Officer Frederic Bruggink Senior VP and General Manager, Service Provider Group Jeff Lund VP, Business Development and Corporate Marketing Echelon Corporation 550 Meridian Avenue San Jose, CA 95126 Phone 408.938.5200 Fax 408.790.3800
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