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Echelon Expands its IzoT Platform for the IIoT to Enable Multiprotocol Wired and Wireless Building Automation Systems(AHR 2015)- Echelon Corporation (NASDAQ:ELON), a leading independent control networking company for the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), has expanded its multiprotocol IzoT™ platform for the IIoT to include new Wi-Fi control modules and integrated support for BACnet/MS-TP. Echelon is demonstrating a converged building control and lighting control network supporting both wired and wireless devices that use LonTalk/FT, LonTalk/IP, BACnet/IP and BACnet/MS-TP protocols in booth #3434 at the AHR 2015 show. Under the hood of Echelon's AHR demo of the IzoT platform for the IIoT market, which can control both building automation and lighting, over wired or wireless connections, and using multiple network protocols. (Photo: Business Wire) Combined with Internet Protocol (IP) technologies, the IzoT platform supports the integration of formerly disparate building and lighting control systems while reducing development, startup, commissioning and operating time and costs. In fact, it is the only platform with a rich set of profiles to speed and simplify the development of building controls for both wired and wireless devices. The IzoT platform includes a complete development environment, commissioning tools, protocol stacks, routers, chips and modules for engineers creating control devices and applications for the IIoT. Echelon has enhanced its IzoT FT 6000 chips and FT 6000 evaluation and development kit (EVK) to support BACnet/MS-TP in addition to the other BACnet and LonTalk protocol support. "Echelon has executed on the promise of the IzoT product roadmap we laid out last year, delivering the first and only open, multiprotocol and comprehensive wired and wireless development platform for the IIoT," said Ron Sege, chairman and CEO of Echelon. "Echelon is driving the evolution of control networking to support multiple legacy protocols while also helping traditional operational technology (OT) systems to move into the IP-enabled world of information technology (IT) and the IoT." By providing a common platform for developing multiprotocol, peer-to-peer, wired-and-wireless control products, Echelon's IzoT platform can:
IzoT Products Bridge Legacy and New Technologies The Echelon IzoT platform enables the billion or moe existing industrial OT devices to operate in modern IT environments. Echelon's IzoT platform products include:
About Echelon Corporation Echelon Corporation (NASDAQ:ELON), a pioneer in developing open-standard control networking platforms, delivers all the elements necessary to design, install, monitor and control industrial-strength 'communities of devices' within the lighting, building automation, 'maker' and other markets worldwide. Echelon develops and sells complete systems and subsystems for target applications, plus system-on-chips (SoCs), embedded software, and commissioning and management tools for OEMs. With more than 100 million Echelon-powered devices installed worldwide, the company helps its customers easily and safely migrate existing control systems to the most modern platforms, while bringing new devices and applications into an ever-growing global Industrial Internet. Echelon helps its customers reduce operational costs, enhance satisfaction and safety, grow revenues and perform better in both established and emerging markets. More information about Echelon can be found at www.echelon.com. Echelon and the Echelon logo are registered trademarks of Echelon Corporation registered in the United States and other countries. Other product or service names mentioned herein are the trademarks of their respective owners. This press release may contain statements relating to future plans, events or performance. Such statements may involve risks and uncertainties; the risk that Echelon's product and service offerings by themselves or combined with other applications or offerings do not perform as designed or do not offer the expected benefits and savings; and other risks identified in Echelon's SEC (News - Alert) filings. Actual results, events and performance may differ materially. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date hereof. Echelon undertakes no obligation to release publicly the result of any revisions to these forward-looking statements that may be made to reflect events or circumstances after the date hereof or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events.
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