Echelon

Smart Buildings

Another Failed PropTech SPAC: Enocean Terminates Merger Agreement with Parabellum

May 8th, 2023
Smart Buildings

EnOcean: The Latest Smart Buildings Firm to Ride the SPAC Wave

November 24th, 2022
Smart Buildings

Charting Echelon’s Meandering Journey to EnOcean

In February 1988, in Palo Alto, California, a startup company was founded by Armas Clifford “Mike” Markkula Jr. the grandson of a Finnish immigrant to the US. That company, Echelon Technology, would go on to develop the LON protocol, and help pioneer the evolution of open standard networking platforms, making a big contribution to the IoT […]

Smart Buildings

Cree Announces PoE System as part of Cisco’s Digital Ceiling Framework

Last week, Cree Inc., introduced their SmartCast Power over Ethernet (PoE) technology; an open platform that enables the Internet of Things (IoT) for buildings through improved lighting control. “Commercial lighting customers have resisted installing traditional lighting controls because of excess cost and complexity, and the majority of those who have installed controls stop using them […]

Lighting

Identifying Winners in the Smart Lighting Controls Business

Memoori’s latest market research report – Smart Wireless Lighting Controls 2014 to 2018 – carefully analyzes both the demand and supply side considerations to arrive at a realistic assessment of market potential for the lighting wireless controls market from 2014 to 2018. The report shows that there can be no doubt about the enormous demand […]

Lighting

Building Automation Prepares for the Building Internet of Things (BIoT)

Echelon recently released findings from an online survey showing that that majority of planners intend to integrate lighting, HVAC and security systems into a common platform. This was hardly a surprising finding and nor was the statement that almost half of building automation projects today involve legacy systems running multiple protocols from different vendors. The […]

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