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News Release from: Echelon | Subject: i.LON SmartServer
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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.
Echelon and Munich Software have integrated i.LON SmartServer into the Wonderware Application Server, a component of the Wonderware System Platform 3.0 software Munich Software has developed an interface that enables the two control automation products to easily work together and significantly reduce the time and cost to deploy smart networks for automation and energy management applications
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 13 Oct 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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System Platform 3.0 software from Wonderware provides a single platform for all the Scada, supervisory HMI and production and performance management needs of industrial automation personnel.
It provides a common integrated industrial application services platform that runs on top of virtually any existing IT and business system.
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When the two products are integrated, Scada and supervisory applications created with Wonderware software can be enhanced with data from the control network, enabling energy savings, increased safety and reduced operations costs.
The i.LON SmartServer can also serve as an IP interface to LonWorks networks, Modbus digital I/O devices, pulse meters, M-Bus equipment and legacy control systems.
Rashesh Mody, Vice President HMI/Scada Business Group, Wonderware.
"It has never been so easy to create robust, quickly deployed, control networks for improved efficiency and productivity in markets such as facilities management, building automation, retail and convenience stores and quick service restaurants".
"Control networks have historically been complex to install and integrate, making them difficult and time consuming for most end-users".
Echelon's i.LON SmartServer is used in commercial, retail and industrial facility management and monitored streetlight systems and can act as a complete network management solution that can install, configure and manage networks through a web interface.
The integration developed by Munich Software features i.LON SmartServer application objects, enabling direct configuration of the i.LON SmartServer in the Wonderware supervisory system.
It also provides real-time data access of any client through the open industry standard OPC.
The MSP i.LON Smart Server A2 integration package from Munich Software significantly optimises the development process of supervisory applications for use with the i.LON SmartServer.
It supports installation and remote deployment and enables users to leverage the features of the Wonderware System Platform 3.0 software and has an industrial services oriented architecture that provides a common object model for application development, software and device connectivity, information and data management as well as system management and extensibility services.
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