Echelon and Motorola Bring Home Owners and Utilities Pre-Paid Convenience.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers PALO ALTO Palo Alto, city, California Palo Alto (păl`ō ăl`tō), city (1990 pop. 55,900), Santa Clara co., W Calif.; inc. 1894. Although primarily residential, Palo Alto has aerospace, electronics, and advanced research industries. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 15, 2000 Echelon Corporation Echelon Corporation (NASDAQ: ELON) designs control networks to connect machines and other electronic devices, for the purposes of sensing, monitoring and control. (Nasdaq:ELON) today announced that its LonWorks(R) networks and PLT-22 power line signaling
Line signaling is a class of telecommunications signaling protocols. Line signaling is responsible for off-hook, ringing signal, answer, ground start, on-hook unidirectional supervision technology are key components of Motorola's (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :MOT) new PowerCom(TM) System. Developed by the Motorola Commercial, Government and Industrial Solutions Sector, PowerCom is a unique system that allows customers to buy power on an as-needed basis and thereby manage their power usage and budgets more effectively. Motorola developed PowerCom in conjunction with Salt River Project, one of Arizona's leading power utilities, and recently began volume shipments of the system. Utilities deploying the PowerCom solution provide consumers with LonWorks based in-home display units and smart meters. Customers deposit money onto a smart card at an authorized teller machine and then place the card into their in-home display unit. The money is then electronically transferred from the card to the smart meter over the power mains. Signaling between the display and the meter is accomplished over the power mains using Echelon's PLT-22 Power Line Transceivers. "Echelon's LonWorks system was hands-down the best choice for the PowerCom system," said Duane Pearson, Utility Business Unit manager at Motorola Systems Solutions Group in Scottsdale, Ariz. "One of our primary objectives when we developed this product was the installation would have to be easy to be a marketable solution. The installation of PowerCom into homes is incredibly simple thanks to the ability of Echelon's PLT-22 power line transceivers to provide robust two-way communication Two-way communication is a form of transmission in which both parties involved transmit information. Common forms of two-way communication are:
"Eliminating wiring reduces installation costs and makes the Motorola PowerCom system practical to deploy on a wide scale," says Michael R. Tennefoss, Echelon's vice president of product marketing. "Echelon's PLT-22 was designed specifically to be a highly reliable, very low cost product that can be used in a wide variety of applications, from consumer products and white goods to factory and building automation systems. Through extensive, international field testing, the PLT-22 has proven to be the most reliable power line transceiver (TRANSmitter reCEIVER) An electronic device or circuit that transmits and receives analog or digital signals. It comes in many forms; for example, a transponder on a satellite, a network adapter in the computer or the circuits in a cellphone. available, and also the only one that meets all power line regulations worldwide." PowerCom provides a secure, reliable means of metering electricity while eradicating the need for meter reading and enabling the utility to remotely connect and disconnect service, reducing utility operating expenses Operating expenses The amount paid for asset maintenance or the cost of doing business, excluding depreciation. Earnings are distributed after operating expenses are deducted. and increasing customer control over costs. The in-home display unit provides users with detailed information about power usage and notifies them when pre-paid funds are running low. Accounting is fully automated and instantly available to the utility, and collections, deposits, disconnection fees, and service actions become a thing of the past. Since the cost of deployment is low, PowerCom is ideal for apartment dwellers, owners of vacation homes Vacation Home A home separate from an individual's primary residence that is used for recreational purposes and may also be rented out at unused times. Notes: For tax purposes, those who rent their vacation homes may result in a lower amount of allowable expense , and persons living in temporary residences. "We are happy to be collaborating with Motorola on great applications like PowerCom," said Bea Yormark, vice president of sales and marketing at Echelon Corporation. "PowerCom is a perfect example of how networking everyday devices with Echelon's LonWorks system can be used to provide convenience to our busy lives. A person can pay for as much power as they want ahead of time and have one less monthly bill to worry about. Plus when we start to closely monitor our power usage, it makes us more aware of the energy we use. This benefits both the user and the power provider." Motorola is a global leader in providing integrated communications solutions and embedded Inserted into. See embedded system. electronic solutions. Sales in 1998 were $29.4 billion. For more information, please visit the Motorola Web site at http://www.motorola.com. About Echelon Corporation 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 a leading cross-industry standard for networking everyday devices in building and home automation, 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. Products that have been verified to conform to Verb 1. conform to - satisfy a condition or restriction; "Does this paper meet the requirements for the degree?" fit, meet coordinate - be co-ordinated; "These activities coordinate well" Echelon's LonMark(R) interoperability guidelines are eligible to carry the LonMark logo, an indicator that a product has been designed to interoperate over a LonWorks network. Echelon is based in Palo Alto, California “Palo Alto” redirects here. For other uses, see Palo Alto (disambiguation). Palo Alto (IPA: /ˌpæloʊˈʔæltoʊ/, from Spanish: palo: "stick" and alto: "high", i.e. , with international offices in China, France, Germany, Japan, Korea, The Netherlands, and the United Kingdom. Further information can be found at http://www.echelon.com. Further information about the LonMark Interoperability Association can be found at http://www.lonmark.org. Note to Editors: Echelon, LonWorks, LonMark, the LonMark logo, and the Echelon logo are registered trademarks of Echelon Corporation registered in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. and other countries. PowerCom is a trademark and Motorola and the Motorola logo are registered trademarks of Motorola, Inc., (R) Reg. U.S. Pat. & Tm. Off. All other companies and products listed herein are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders. This press release may contain statements relating to relating to relate prep → concernant relating to relate prep → bezüglich +gen, mit Bezug auf +acc future plans, events or performance. Such statements may involve risks and uncertainties, including risks associated with uncertainties pertaining per·tain intr.v. per·tained, per·tain·ing, per·tains 1. To have reference; relate: evidence that pertains to the accident. 2. to the timing and level of customer orders, demand for products and services, development of markets for Echelon's products and services, and other risks identified in Echelon's SEC filings. Actual results, events and performance may differ materially. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements forward-looking statement A projected financial statement based on management expectations. A forward-looking statement involves risks with regard to the accuracy of assumptions underlying the projections. , 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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