Echelon Corporation

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Echelon Corporation
Type Public (NASDAQ: ELON)
Founded 1988
Headquarters San Jose, California, United States
Key people M. Kenneth Oshman, Chairman, CEO
Beatrice Yormark, President, COO
Oliver "Chris" Stanfield, EVP, CFO
Industry Building Automation
Home Automation
Industrial Automation
Transportation Automation
Automatic meter reading
Remote Product Service Solutions
Products LonWorks Networking Platform
Pyxos Platform
Networked Energy Services
i.LON 100 e3 Internet Server
LonMaker® 3.1 Integration Tool
LonScannerâ„¢
Website www.echelon.com

Echelon Corporation (NASDAQ: ELON) designs control networks to connect machines and other electronic devices, for the purposes of sensing, monitoring and control.

Echelon's LonWorks platform for control networking was released in 1990 for use in the building, industrial, transportation, and home automation markets. Launched in 2003, Echelon's Networked Energy Services system is an open metering infrastructure.

Echelon provides the underlying network technology for the world's largest advanced meter management (AMM) project in Italy with over 27 million connected electricity meters and more recently it won tenders to provide the NES System to several hundred thousand customers of utilities in Sweden and The Netherlands.

Echelon is based in San Jose, California, with international offices in China, France, Germany, Italy, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, The Netherlands, and the United Kingdom.


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