Bill,
That's just the point, the majors have their own individual systems. ALYA is an open system allowing a customer to add components from different vendors to create their own solutions without being tied to one product line (i.e. cost savings). ALYA is also a LONWORKS (Echelon, Inc) partner. LONWORKS is projected to be spec'd into 70% of all new "smart building" projects. This implies LONWORKS is an industry standard. ALYA dovetails with Echelon technology.
Also, LONWORKS is not just about security and building controls. Its about CONTROLS, "period". LONWORKS is into industrial process automation, transportation, residential, etc. See their website at www. echelon.com. Use the website search engine to call up ALYA references and see the big picture. That is, where ever LONWORKS is ALYA can be too. ALYA management is positioning the product to be the LONWORKS development platform of choice amongst the controls developers with LONWORKS, ODBC (i.e. any database), NT, and LAN architecture. Imagine the market potential... >> $1B !
Do your research, this company is well worth that little extra effort. |
