Energy Management and Control
The i.LON SmartServer is the key to smart energy management.
As energy costs continue to rise, businesses need smarter energy management strategies. Echelon’s control technology gives you the benefits of energy management and control systems in a single, sustainable, and flexible network infrastructure. With one investment, you can lower your operating costs and leverage your infrastructure, even as your business grows — all while gaining maximum visibility and transparency to energy use and operations throughout your organization.
Our energy management and control solutions begin with the i.LON SmartServer, our smart energy manager, and extend into the thousands of LonWorks based smart products that our customers build to control, sense, and monitor HVAC, lighting, security, kitchen equipment, and IT integration systems. By letting electronic devices communicate with software applications and service providers, LonWorks networks enable energy and operations strategies that produce the most savings with the least inconvenience to end users and companies.
Use the SmartServer over an IP connection to drive knowledge into the software that runs your business, then add legacy equipment or networks, or smart LonWorks networks as your needs change or your business grows.
Our Solutions
Automatic Demand Response
Take part in utility-sponsored incentive programs, powered by the SmartServer, to automatically reduce electricity use during peak demand periods — without interrupting your end users' business. What started as a U.S. trend is now gaining momentum worldwide as smart buildings become more grid-aware and energy services companies enter the fray.
Enterprise Energy Management
Today’s large enterprises — or those organizations with many facilities scattered across a wide region — must find new ways to operate more efficiently in order to lower energy use and carbon dioxide emissions. Whether your business is a data center, a quick-service restaurant, or a company with dozens or thousands of branches, the SmartServer can connect and communicate with your management software.
Lighting Control
Many retail lighting managers, warehouse managers, and cities are switching to energy-efficient fixtures — but that's just the first step. Being able to predict lamp failures, dim lamps during daylight hours, or light just those lamps near active areas requires control technology. Our control technology works with any lighting technology — such as LEDs, LiFI, induction, and plain old incandescent fixtures — and can save as much as 30% more energy.
Managed Street Lighting Networks
Cities everywhere are evaluating their streetlights, looking for ways to reduce budgets, curb light pollution, enhance urban environments, and become more green. Many are switching to new technologies, such as LED lights, which use less energy. Adding an intelligent network to control those lights is the next step. The SmartServer, combined with LonWorks powered ballasts, is the cornerstone of intelligent street lighting systems around the world — and it’s already the leading segment controller in the European market.
Remote High-value Asset Monitoring
Making sure remote field equipment is working properly has never been easy and has always been costly — both in terms of maintenance and the value of your performance contracts. With the SmartServer’s flexible connectivity and its ability to communicate using any IP connection, monitoring your high-value remote assets has never been easier or more cost-effective.