Echelon Highlights Fast Payback Applications for Smart Street Lighting and Smart Buildings at the Light+Building Fair

FRANKFURT, Germany, March 22, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Echelon Corporation (NASDAQ: ELON) will showcase several Smart Street Lighting and Smart Building solutions, built on Echelon's proven, open standard, multi-application energy control networking platform, at the world's leading trade fair for lighting and intelligent buildings, Light+Building, held at the Frankfurt Fair and Exhibition Centre on April 15-20 in Hall 9.0, Booth E10. Echelon and its partners will demonstrate how these solutions reduce energy use and carbon emissions while providing better end-user comfort and safety. 

Energy Control Networking Demonstrations For Smart Cities

The Echelon Smart Street Lighting solutions will show attendees how to easily transform streetlights into an intelligent, energy-efficient, remotely managed device network that delivers optimal lighting at less cost than low-energy luminaires alone. Echelon's solution serves as a foundation for building a Smart City as new applications for monitoring pollution, air composition, humidity, temperature, traffic and street noise, can be added over time. More than 500 cities have started on the path to a Smart City, building on Echelon's street lighting solutions.

The Echelon Smart Building solutions will demonstrate how facilities managers and application developers can leverage Echelon's royalty-free platform to develop, deploy, and manage building automation and energy management systems. In addition, attendees will gain first-hand insight into how real world solutions can mix and match the world's two leading building automation standards – LonWorks® and BACnet® – to provide end-users with the best that both standards have to offer.

Global partners for Echelon's Smart Street Lighting and Smart Building solutions will demonstrate their applications built on Echelon's energy control networking platform.  The applications include:

• LonWorks to BACnet/IP integration;
• Demand Response and end-user energy portal services;
• Intelligent street lighting using outdoor lighting controllers for multiple types of lamps; and
• Intelligent street lighting using integrated ballasts and generators.

Free Educational Seminars for Light+Building Attendees

Echelon representatives will be speaking at LonMark International's Education Sessions at Light+Building on April 17-18 in Halle 11.0 Raum Granaton on topics related to LonWorks Technology and LonMark Systems in the following sessions:

• Tuesday, April 17 at 11:15-12:15 – Echelon will participate in a panel titled, "Is There A Smart Grid in Your Future?"
• Wednesday, April 18 at 10:00-11:00 – Echelon will participate in a panel titled, "BACnet vs. LON: The Battle is Over"
• Wednesday, April 18 at 11:15-12:15 – Ron Bernstein, senior director, Commercial Programs and Business Development at Echelon, will present on "Understanding LON and LonMark"

Press and Analyst Meetings

Echelon executives will attend the conference and will be available to speak with press and industry analysts on a number of technology topics and market trends. To schedule an interview with Echelon, please contact:

• Ingrid Daschner of Johnson King for Echelon at +49 (0) 89 89 40 85-11 or [email protected]
• Amy Lee of Echelon at +1 (408) 790-3019 or [email protected]

About Echelon Corporation

Echelon Corporation (NASDAQ: ELON) is an Energy Control Networking company, with the world's most widely deployed proven, open standard, multi-application platform, selling complete systems and embedded sub-systems for smart grid, smart city and smart building applications.  Our platform is embedded in more than 100 million devices, 35 million homes, and 300,000 buildings and powers energy savings applications for smart grids, smart cities and smart buildings. We help our customers reduce operational costs, enhance satisfaction and safety, grow revenues and prepare for a dynamic future. More information about Echelon can be found at http://www.echelon.com.

Echelon and the Echelon logo are registered trademarks of Echelon Corporation registered in the United States and other countries. Other product or service names mentioned herein are the trademarks of their respective owners.

SOURCE Echelon Corporation