Echelon’s NES smart grid infrastructure consists of a web services based network operating system that interacts with a family of highly integrated, advanced electronic electricity meters and other smart grid devices over an IP network infrastructure.
The system includes Echelon software for sensing, monitoring and control applications for the low voltage grid and smart meters for approximately 150,000 homes and businesses, and enables multiple devices to share a single IP connection through the use of the Open Smart Grid Protocol and power line networking technology.
Echelon’s shipments are expected to begin in the second quarter of this year, with the initial deployment phase expected to be completed within one year.
Echelon designs control networks to connect machines and other electronic devices, for the purposes of sensing, monitoring and control.
