ELON news:
Leading Swedish Telecom Selects Echelon'sLONWORKS Networks For Connected Homes
March 13, 2000 08:28 AM
STOCKHOLM, Sweden--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 13, 2000--Echelon Corporation ELON the leader in
networking everyday devices, today announced that Telia AB, the leading Swedish telecom company, has chosen
Echelon's LONWORKS(R) system as a standard for networking everyday devices in Telia's Connected Home
initiative.
Telia's Connected Home initiative involves collaborating on the development of network-delivered services via
networked devices in the home. The initiative will involve typical products and services for the home including
networked kitchen appliances, interactive entertainment center, home control and security systems, and home
offices. Telia is currently working to roll out the concept to a small collection of homes in Europe and will conduct
initial field trials in select areas of Scandinavia during the year 2000.
"After extensive evaluation, we concluded that Echelon's LONWORKS system is the leading technology for
networking everyday devices in the home," said Leif Bengtsson, vice president of Telia Research. "Echelon's
LonWorks networks provide the open, interoperable platform we need to be able to interact with everyday
devices in the home and provide valuable new services through both broadband, power wiring and wireless
communication."
In a demonstration being shown this week at Computer World Expo, attendees can use a Wireless Application
Protocol (WAP) enabled mobile phone and Jini services to monitor and control LONWORKS devices located in
the Telia Research booth.
"We are pleased to be selected by Telia as a device networking standard for their Connected Home initiative," said
Frits Bruggink, Echelon's vice president, Europe, Middle East and Africa. "In Scandinavia, and throughout Europe,
we see a growing momentum behind the networked home and a growing recognition of LONWORKS networks
as the defacto standard for connecting everyday devices in the home. While many parts of the world are talking
about smart homes, they are becoming a reality here in Europe though initiatives such as Telia's Connected Home." |
