Echelon Corporation
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| legal form | Corporation |
| ISIN | US27874N3035 |
| founding | 1988 |
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Santa Clara , United States
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| management | Ronald A. Sege, CEO |
| Number of employees | 87 |
| sales | 38,800,000 USD |
| Branch | Automation technology |
| Website | www.echelon.com |
| As of December 31, 2015 | |
Echelon Corporation is an American technology company ( NASDAQ : ELON) in the field of automation technology . A special field of activity is the networking of everyday devices.
The company is based in Santa Clara, California and has offices in China , Germany , France , Hong Kong , Italy , Japan , Korea , the Netherlands and the United Kingdom .
The company was founded by Mike Markkula in San José, California . In 1990 it developed the LonWorks Platform, which is the basis of the fieldbus Local Operating Network (LON) that is widespread worldwide . The LonWorks platform includes hardware (Neuron chip) and software (programming and network management) to develop, program and network LON devices.
In 2003 Echelon Corporation introduced “Networked Energy Services (NES)” as an open smart metering system. In Italy , the company implemented the world's largest smart metering infrastructure project in cooperation with the largest Italian electricity supplier, Enel . Approx. 27 million electricity meters are networked in this project . Echelon relocated its headquarters to Santa Clara during the 2015 financial year . In 2018 the company was taken over by Adesto Technologies Corporation, also from Santa Clara.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Echelon 2015 Form 10-K Report , accessed December 11, 2016
- ^ Echelon: Board of Directors "Armas Clifford Markkula, Jr is the founder of our company and has served as a director since 1988." Retrieved May 9, 2012.
- ↑ Echelon: The LonWorks 2.0 Platform.Retrieved May 9, 2012.
- ↑ Enel and Echelon Sign Preliminary Agreement to Network 27 Million Italian Homes ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF file; 231 kB) Press release of May 10, 2000, accessed on May 9, 2012.
