Echelon tops 90 million LonWorks chips globally

The LonWorks platform is featured this week at the 2010 Light+Building event in Frankfurt, Germany.

LonWorks technology is used by OEM product manufacturers and system integrators to create and implement next generation control networks and smart energy management solutions.

The LonWorks platform is based on the ISO/IEC 14908 body of standards and is used in control applications ranging from commercial building automation, to smart grid and demand response programs to remotely monitored streetlights.

LonWorks technology is also the core control networking technology used in Echelon's Networked Energy Systems (NES) smart grid solutions deployed by utilities in Austria, Denmark, Finland, Germany, The Netherlands, Russia, Sweden, Switzerland, and the U.S., among other countries.

"There are an estimated 125,000 LonWorks enabled buildings in Europe, all saving approximately 20 percent annually on energy use, thanks to LonWorks technology," said Anders Axelsson, Echelon's senior vice-president of sales and marketing, in a statement.

According to the EPA's carbon equivalency calculator, the carbon equivalent of the savings is equal to the greenhouse gases emitted by six million passenger vehicles in a single year.