October 22, 2007—Echelon Corporation, a leading provider of networking technology that is used to manage and reduce energy consumption, recently introduced the i.LON SmartServer, the newest member of the i.LON family of products.
The i.LON SmartServer includes the field-proven capabilities of the i.LON 100 Internet Server and adds custom programming support, built-in network management through a built-in Web interface, and the automated, adaptive power line mesh-networking management pioneered by Echelon in its Networked Energy Services advanced metering infrastructure system.
With these new capabilities, the i.LON SmartServer reduces the time and cost to deploy control networks, offers a powerful and flexible platform that can be tailored to the unique needs of a given project, and creates the opportunity for wide-scale use of outdoor power line wiring as a communications network, making it a key component for energy and control applications in buildings, managed street light systems for utilities and cities, remote monitoring and control of equipment, and rapid deployment of energy management and control services in retail stores, quick service restaurants and other applications.
The i.LON SmartServer, says the company, is expected to help companies expand their energy and control related offerings into new industries and applications. It can act as a complete network management solution that can install, configure, and manage networks through a powerful web interface; and can deliver ultra-reliable communications to street lights and other public lighting works using a patented repeating technology.
SmartServer utilizes Web services to make it simple, fast, and very low cost to tie energy and control information to operations centers using standard IT expertise, says the company.
For more information on Echelon, see the company’s Web site.
