verification . please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . unsourced material may be challenged and removed . september 2014 learn how and when to remove this template message echelon corporation type public nasdaq elon industry building automation home automation industrial automation transportation automation automatic meter reading remote product service solutions founded 1988 headquarters san jose 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 website www.echelon.com echelon corporation is an american company which designs control networks to connect machines and other electronic devices for the purposes of sensing monitoring and control . history edit echelon s lonworks platform for control networking was released in 1990 for use in the building industrial transportation and home automation markets . launched in 2003 echelon s networked energy services system is an open metering infrastructure . 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 has developed the nes networked energy services system including smart meters data concentrators and a head end data collection system with currently about 3.5 million devices installed worldwide . in august 2014 echelon announced it was getting out of the smart grid business entirely 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 . 1 echelon is based in san jose california with international offices in china france germany italy hong kong japan korea the netherlands and the united kingdom . references edit http finance.yahoo.com news echelon reports second quarter 2014 200500027 . html external links edit about echelon corporation lonmark international retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title echelon corporation & oldid 677778568 categories networking companies of the united statescompanies listed on nasdaqcompanies based in san jose californiaplc internet accesshidden categories articles needing additional references from september 2014all articles needing additional references navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages deutschitalianonorsk bokm l edit links this page was last modified on 25 august 2015 at 13 09 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view