elon: yes to Uncle West's assessment. elon being annointed as ansi standard is equivalent to standards upon which others build products and applications is equivalent to cdma, msdos (later windows), and soon to be SiC (cree) for LED substrates.
This is not a rdram vs sdram vs ddram situation as the standard is basically a software protocol that does not require investment to be used nor the adoption or competing vendors who require naking substantial investments in plant and equipment. It only means that a builder, plant operator, home builder etc will specify Lonworks for interoperability much in the same way they specify twisted pair for telephones, etherlink for networking, coopper for plumbing supply, pvc for plumbing waste, gypsum wall board for interior finishes...the difference is that the other products are commodities while the interoperability protocols and neural switches are proprietary if they conform to the ANSI standard...eg ELON. Ansi could annoint another company as a standard as well but by that time ELON will be the reference standard and in such ubiqitous use that the switching costs will become a barrier to entry.
With this statement they seem to have crossed the chasm and are on tornado watch:
"Echelon Corporation is the developer of LONWORKS networks, recognized internationally as a standard for open, interoperable control networks. With thousands of application developers and millions of devices installed worldwide, LONWORKS is the leading cross-industry standard for networking everyday devices in building, home, industrial, transportation, and public utility applications. Echelon offers a full range of off-the-shelf hardware and software products to support the development, installation and management of intelligent, open and interoperable control networks." |
