Echelon Corporation develops, markets, and sells hardware and software products and services that enable original equipment manufacturers and systems integrators to design and implement open, interoperable, and distributed control networks in the building, industrial, transportation, utility, home, and other automation markets. The company offers network infrastructure products, LonWorks Infrastructure product line, including transceivers, control modules, routers, network interfaces, development tools, and software tools and toolkits. The company also provides networked energy services system that offers a two-way information and control path between the utility and its customer to the electric utility industry; and i.LON Internet server family of products, which provide Internet interface and local control capability for remote devices and systems to the system integrators serving the street lighting, remote facility monitoring, and energy management markets. Echelon Corporation sells and markets its products and services through direct sales organization, distributors, value-added resellers, and integration partners primarily in North America, Europe, Japan, the Peoples Republic of China, and the other Asia Pacific countries. It has collaboration agreements with Onzo Ltd. and Green Energy Options Ltd. to develop consumer and energy displays for the companys Networked Energy Services System. Echelon Corporation was formerly known as ACM Research, Inc. before it changed its name in September, 1988. The company founded in 1988 and is headquartered in San Jose, California.
