Echelon
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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 […]
Recording: The Case for an Open IoT ‘Data Fabric’ for Smart Buildings Integration
Here is the Video Recording from our 8th Free Webinar of the 2021 Smart Buildings Series. Don’t forget you can now Subscribe to ALL our Webinars & Interviews on Soundcloud, iTunes, YouTube and now Spotify! The Case for an Open IoT ‘Data Fabric’ for Smart Buildings Integration. Memoori was joined by Dialog Semiconductors to discuss […]
Webinar: The Case for an Open IoT ‘Data Fabric’ for Smart Buildings Integration
** Recording of this Webinar can now be found HERE ** Please join us on Thursday 21st October at 1700 CEST | 1600 BST | 1100 EDT | 0800 PDT for our 8th FREE Webinar in the 2021 Smart Buildings Series. The Case for an Open IoT ‘Data Fabric’ for Smart Buildings Integration. Memoori will be joined […]
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 […]
Is Power-Line Communication (PLC) Technology a Viable Alternative to Wireless for Lighting Controls?
A recent visit to Arup’s exhibition “Lighting in the Urban Age” reveals an interesting collaboration between Arup, Echelon and Xicato; which uses PLC to control lighting and not wireless, a route others like Enlighted & Harvard Engineering have already committed to. Lighting is truly at an inflection point; with Smart Lighting lying at the convergence […]
Echelon Goes “All In” on Internet of Things (IoT), but will the Strategy Work?
With the announcement last week that Echelon has completed the sale of its Smart Grid Division, the company are now “All In” on the Industrial Internet of Things. This move to focus their efforts is in tune with others in Silicon Valley, such as the recently announced Paypal spinoff from eBay, driven through by Carl […]
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 […]
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 […]