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To: Anthony@Pacific who wrote (49138)	1/10/2000 10:22:00 AM
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ELON--News.. BSNS WIRE) Echelon's LONWORKS Technology Chosen as Finland's Preferred Echelon's LONWORKS Technology Chosen as Finland's Preferred Home Networking Standard Business/Technology Editors PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 10, 2000--Echelon Corporation (NASDAQ: ELON), the leader in networking everyday devices, today announced that the company'S LONWORKS(R) system has been chosen as the preferred home networking standard in Finland by three agencies: the Finnish National Technology Agency (TEKES), the Finnish Association of Building Owners and Construction Clients (RAKLI), and the Finnish Association of Consulting Firms (SKOL). According to Fortune Magazine, "the real country of the future, it now seems clear, is Finland, the most wired -- and wireless -- nation on earth. If you want to see what life in the infotech society will be like in a few years, a live-action preview is playing right now." The birthplace of Linux, Finland was the first nation to broadly adopt mobile phones and has more Internet connections per capita than any other nation in the world. Widely viewed as a leading indicator of upcoming mass-market technologies, the selection of LONWORKS networks is significant for both Finland and other industrialized countries. The adoption of LONWORKS networks within Finland is exemplified by the City of Helsinki, a member of RAKLI, which has published procurement and design guidelines for the use of LONWORKS networks in residential areas including the Viikki and Arabia Ranta areas. In both the Arabia area (a redeveloped, state-of-the-art Information Age Art and Design City with homes, educational facilities and workshops for some 6,000 inhabitants) and in the similarly sized Viikki area (currently being built as an Information Age Eco City), LONWORKS and Internet connectivity will be available for every home. "Finland is known worldwide for being a technology pioneer," said Beatrice Yormark, Echelon's vice president of sales and marketing. "We are delighted to be named as a Finnish home networking standard. As it has done for mobile phones and the Internet, we expect Finland to point the way for the rest of the world by selecting LONWORKS networks as the standard for networking everyday devices in the home." "As a widely adopted, open, interoperable solution, LONWORKS networks are the perfect choice for our preferred national home automation standard," says Erkki Aalto, Program Manager at RAKLI. "LONWORKS networks offer tremendous flexibility and possibilities for applications in the home market. For example, with Echelon's new i.LON(TM) 1000 Internet Server, home automation can be monitored and managed via the Internet. Online access is now available via wireless application protocol (WAP) cellular phones. Given the Finns' love of cell phones and the Internet, we will soon see people on the streets of Helsinki controlling their homes through their mobile phones." Finland's adoption of LONWORKS networks for the home follows on the heels of a similar successful program for commercial buildings. In 1995, Finland established the SaMBA (Smart and Modular Building Automation) technology program, a cooperative research and development program between TEKES, the 400-plus member RAKLI, national research institutes, and over 80 Finnish manufacturers of building-related systems and components. The program has lead to widespread use of LONWORKS in more than 500 commercial buildings in Finland through 1999.