Echelon Corporation
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| Company type | Subsidiary (Nasdaq: ELON) |
|---|---|
| Industry | Building Automation Home Automation Industrial Automation Transportation Automation Automatic meter reading Remote Product Service Solutions |
| Founded | 1988 |
| Headquarters | Santa Clara, California, United States |
Key people | Ron Sege, President, CEO Armas Clifford "Mike" Markkula Jr., Founder, Vice Chairman, Director |
| Products | LonWorks Networking Platform Pyxos Platform Networked Energy Services i.LON 100 SmartServer LonMaker 3.1 Integration Tool LonScanner |
| Parent | Adesto Technologies |
| Website | www |
Echelon Corporation was an American company which designed control networks to connect machines and other electronic devices, for the purposes of sensing, monitoring and control. Echelon is now owned by Adesto Technologies.
History
[edit]Echelon was founded in February 1988 in Palo Alto, California by Clifford "Mike" Markkula Jr.[1] The chief executive was M. Kenneth Oshman. Echelon's LonWorks platform for control networking was released in 1990 for use in the building, industrial, transportation, and home automation markets. At their initial public offering on March 31, 1998, their shares were listed on the NASDAQ exchange with the symbol ELON.[1]
Started in 2003, Echelon's Networked Energy Services system was an open metering service. Echelon provides the underlying network technology for the world's largest Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) in Italy with over 27 million connected electricity meters. Based on the experiences with this installation, Echelon developed the NES (Networked Energy Services) System (including smart meters, data concentrators and a head-end data collection system) in October 2014 with about 3.5 million devices installed.[2][third-party source needed]
In August 2014, after quarterly revenues dropped from $24.8 million to $15 million, Echelon announced it was leaving the smart-grid business, shifting its entire corporate focus to the Internet of things as a market for its technology. Echelon committed to only support existing customers, but not grow the grid business, and to potentially seek the sale of its grid business.[3][third-party source needed]
Echelon is based in Santa Clara, California, with international offices in China, France, Germany, Italy, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, The Netherlands, and the United Kingdom.[citation needed]
On June 29, 2018, Adesto Technologies announced its intention to acquire Echelon for $45 million.[4] The acquisition was completed on September 14, 2018.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Prospectus". Retrieved November 4, 2016.
- ^ "About NES". Retrieved July 16, 2018.
- ^ "Echelon Reports Second Quarter 2014 Results And Announces Further Steps To Focus On The Industrial Internet Of Things". Press release. August 6, 2014. Retrieved November 4, 2016.
- ^ "Adesto Announces Agreement to Acquire Echelon". Adesto Tech. June 29, 2018. Archived from the original on July 31, 2018. Retrieved July 31, 2018.
- ^ "Adesto Completes Acquisition Of Echelon". The Independent Global Source for the Flexible and Printed Electronics Industry. Retrieved 2020-06-25.
External links
[edit]- About Echelon Corporation Archived 2012-09-15 at the Wayback Machine
- LonMark International
- Networking companies of the United States
- Computer companies established in 1988
- 1988 establishments in California
- Companies formerly listed on the Nasdaq
- Companies based in San Jose, California
- Companies based in Santa Clara, California
- Technology companies based in the San Francisco Bay Area
- Power-line communication Internet access
- 1998 initial public offerings
- 2018 mergers and acquisitions