March 19, 2003—Echelon Corporation, the creator of the LonWorks device networking platform, has launched the new Panoramix platform, an enterprise software platform that enables companies to harvest critical information directly from networks of devices within their business sites—devices such as utility (electricity, gas and water meters) and energy tracking systems; lighting, heating/air-conditioning, and security systems; and refrigeration cases—and integrate this information into their business processes to reduce energy and operating costs and benchmark operations.
Designed to support operations with hundreds, even thousands, of remote sites, the Panoramix platform enables companies such as retailers, supermarkets, convenience store chains, quick service restaurants, and gas stations to expand their view of the enterprise and run their businesses better.
The Panoramix platform is scalable, enterprise-grade software that can reside in a corporate-owned or hosted data center and communicate across the Internet or a private IP network to remote sites containing networks of smart devices. Release 1.0 of the Panoramix platform includes support for Echelons recently introduced i.LON 100 Internet Server, which provides the “media conversion” that enables the data within the network of everyday devices to flow across the Internet.
Built around open standards, the Panoramix platform provides a Web Services API for integration to enterprise applications or to vertically focused applications such as energy management and analysis applications.
Ken Oshman, Echelons CEO and chairman says, “Just as LonWorks technology makes it quick and easy to network everyday devices together within a single facility, the Panoramix platform makes it quick and easy to interact with networks of everyday devices across multiple facilities. By doing so, the Panoramix platform brings companies critical business intelligence that can be used to drive down costs, increase efficiencies, and streamline business processes. We are not only enabling companies to expand their view of the enterprise, we are redefining it.”
For more information, contact Echelon.
