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Metering project signed for US $40 million
Multiple NES meters can share a single IP connection through the use of Echelon's standards-based power line networking technology.
News from Engineeringtalk, 17 July 2008
Reseller deal aids Indian electricity upgrade
Metering infrastructures like Echelon's NES System can make the energy grid more efficient by enabling utilities to implement direct load control and demand/response programmes.
News from Engineeringtalk, 10 July 2008
Energy services contract covers 170,000 homes
The NES advanced metering infrastructure consists of highly integrated electronic electricity meters accessed via a web services based network operating system over an IP networking infrastructure
News from Engineeringtalk, 17 April 2008
Power line technology cuts street lighting costs
Starsense uses Echelon's power line technology to reduce installation and deployment costs, turning the existing power lines running to each light pole into a reliable communications network.
News from Engineeringtalk, 11 April 2008
Automation products co-operate to boost speeds
Echelon's i.LON SmartServer is used as a remote access gateway and system controller to monitor and manage a control system or individual products.
News from Engineeringtalk, 20 November 2007
McDonalds chooses networking technology
McDonald's is using Echelon's LonWorks technology to further its goal of lowering energy consumption and increasing operational efficiency.
News from Engineeringtalk, 11 July 2007
Austrian utility company makes metering choice
Sitronics' Utilis Real-Time Meter Management system enables remote data reading and remote service control in utilities' networks in real time.
News from Engineeringtalk, 27 June 2007
Swedish utility ups meter order
Swedish utility Vattenfall has upped its order for Echelon NES meters, to the tune of an additional US $7 million.
News from Engineeringtalk, 4 May 2007
Network selected for 75,000 meters
Echelon's contract to network 75,000 meters has a value of approximately US $7.5 million over the course of the initial three-year project.
News from Engineeringtalk, 30 April 2007
Metering system chosen by power company
Echelon's Networked Energy Services metering system is being used in a "smart meter" electricity trial in Victoria, Australia.
News from Engineeringtalk, 20 April 2007
Energy management company receives award
Echelon has received an award for helping to reduce loads on California's electricity grid by participating in the Automated Critical Peak Pricing Pilot Study.
News from Engineeringtalk, 29 March 2007
Certification eases home automation
The CECED AIS standard defines Echelon's control networking technology platform as one of the technologies for communication among household white goods such as ovens, washers and dryers.
News from Engineeringtalk, 14 March 2007
Swedes expand commitment to remote metering
Swedish utility Vattenfall has exercised options for 200,000 additional meters and associated data concentrators under the framework contract announced in December 2005.
News from Engineeringtalk, 12 January 2007
Contracts cover 27 million electricity meters
Echelon Corp has entered into a series of agreements with Enel Distribuzione, a subsidiary of Enel.
News from Engineeringtalk, 2 November 2006
Data concentrators supervise distributed meters
Echelon Corp has unveiled the DC-1000/SL data concentrator for its networked energy services (NES) advanced metering system.
News from Engineeringtalk, 13 October 2006
Danish VAR takes on metering system
Eltel Networks Denmark has entered into an agreement to become a value-added reseller (VAR) of Echelon's Networked Energy Services (NES) advanced metering system.
News from Engineeringtalk, 13 October 2006
LonWorks technology to monitor multiple systems
Ultra-modern Chinese train relies on lonworks technology to monitor multiple systems
News from Engineeringtalk, 28 July 2006
Control technology adopted as Chinese standard
The Standardisation Administration of China has formally adopted Echelon's LonWorks technology.
News from Engineeringtalk, 20 July 2006
Swedish utilities select advanced metering
Echelon Corporation has been selected as an approved supplier of "next-generation" electricity meters and associated infrastructure for Svenska Matsamarbetet.
News from Engineeringtalk, 6 July 2006
Future-proof meters chosen for Swedish project
Sweden's largest utility, E.ON Sverige, has selected Echelon's NES System for deployment to 370,000 customers in the Malmo, Orebro, and Stockholm areas of Sweden.
News from Engineeringtalk, 8 June 2006
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