ELON--New Echelon Products Manage Homes, Utilities, Buildings and Factories Over the Internet
Latest LNS(TM) and LonMaker(TM) Tools Provide Powerful, Scalable Solutions for Internet Command & Control
SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 28, 2000-- Echelon Corporation (Nasdaq:ELON - news) today announced that the next generations of both its LNS(TM) 3 Network Operating System and its LonMaker(TM) Integration Tool will allow applications associated with home, utility, building, and factory automation to be hosted anywhere on the Internet, paving the way for a new world of application services and businesses. When used in conjunction with Echelon's i.LON(TM) 1000 Internet Server, the new LonMaker and LNS tools enable customers to create peer-to-peer networks with fault-tolerant applications using the Internet as a broadband connection for sending and receiving information. Scheduled for release on September 29, 2000, these tools offer unprecedented levels of scalability and performance to the thousands of companies that are currently designing, manufacturing, and deploying everyday devices based on Echelon's open, interoperable LonWorks® platform.
``LNS 3 has set new performance standard in a number of critical areas,'' said Damian Inglin, Echelon's product marketing manager for the LNS family of products. ``For example, the monitoring performance of LNS 3 is ten times faster than any product on the market today, allowing more devices to be monitored in a shorter period of time.'' This leads to important ramifications for both high speed applications, like manufacturing processes using industrial Ethernet systems, as well as wide-area services covering millions of devices such as state-wide meter reading, load shedding, appliance monitoring, and home control.
``We were impressed with the new features of LNS 3 that integrate LonWorks devices over IP networks using the i.LON 1000 Internet Server,'' said Yvonne Chong, director of product marketing for Circon, a leading edge manufacturer of facility automation and information systems. ``Not only that, but the improvements in monitoring speed are quite impressive.''
The LonMaker Integration Tool is built on both the LNS 3 network operating system and Microsoft Visio® 2000, and provide a simple, graphical means of defining and commissioning LonWorks networks. ``The LonMaker tool was already the most widely used means of constructing open networks of everyday devices,'' said Rich Blomseth, Echelon's product marketing manager for the LonMaker Tool. ``With the introduction of LonMaker 3, the installation, configuration, monitoring, and maintenance of networks will be faster, easier, and less costly. This is especially important in building automation applications where very large networks of lighting, security, life/safety, HVAC, elevator, and power systems must be integrated quickly and efficiently.''
According to Peter Rexelius, vice president of TAC AB, Northern Europe's leading building management systems and services company, ``LonMaker 3 allows us to capture market share with its advanced features tailored for network integrators. Echelon consulted with us on the design of the product to ensure that the LonMaker tool delivers the features required to make integrators more productive and to greatly reduce the cost of designing and installing open control networks. We have already started preparations for releasing LonMaker 3 to our integration channel.''
The LNS Application Developer's Kit for Windows and the LNS Redistribution Kit for Windows will each sell for $2,495. Current users of any of the LNS development tools on the Windows platform will be offered a promotional upgrade price of $495 or $995, depending upon the development tool currently licensed. These prices are valid from now until December 31, 2000. For more information about LNS development tools and the upgrade choices available, see www.echelon.com/lns.
LonMaker 3 will sell for $895 with a license to install up to 64 devices. For users of LonMaker 1 and LonMaker 2 a promotional upgrade price of $395 will be offered for upgrades ordered and shipped by December 31, 2000. For more information about the LonMaker tool, see www.echelon.com/lonmaker.
Prices are in US Dollars and are valid in North America. Pricing may vary in other regions.
About Echelon Corporation
Echelon Corporation (Nasdaq:ELON - news) is the world leader in networking everyday devices. The company offers a comprehensive line of hardware and software products for automating building, home, industrial, transportation, and utility applications using LonWorks networks, an international, cross-industry, open standard for interoperable device networks. Echelon is Bringing the Internet to Life(TM) by linking the millions of everyday devices connected with LonWorks networks to the Internet.
Echelon is based in Sunnyvale, California with international offices in China, France, Germany, Japan, Korea, The Netherlands, and the United Kingdom. Further information can be found at echelon.com.
Echelon's LonWorld2000(TM) Conference and Exhibition is designed to help end-users, integrators, service providers, and manufacturers learn how to use the LonWorks system in their business. The conference will take place on October 18-19 at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Florida and features a series of forums, classes and presentations along with an exhibition of products and services covering the home/utility, building, industrial, and transportation markets. Sponsorship, registration and exhibition information about LonWorld2000 can be found at lonworld2000.com.
Echelon, LonWorks, LonMark, the LonMark logo, and the Echelon logo are trademarks of Echelon Corporation registered in the United States and other countries. LNS, LonMaker, i.LON LonWorld2000 and Bringing the Internet to Life are trademarks of Echelon Corporation. Other marks belong to their respective holders. |
