SAN JOSE, Calif. September 22, 2015 — Echelon Corporation (NASDAQ: ELON), a leading independent control networking company for the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), announced today that its Lumewave by Echelon Microwave Sensor has received the distinguished honor of the 2015 Product of the Year by Consulting-Specifying Engineer (CSE) for lighting control products. Thirteen categories of building engineering products are honored in the magazine’s September issue and website.
“The combination of LEDs and intelligent lighting controls can add significant strategic value for customers—from lowering energy and maintenance costs to improving asset utilization and enhancing customer safety and satisfaction,” said Mark Keating, Lumewave Product Management Director. “With the addition of advanced technologies solutions like our Microwave sensor, lighting systems become sources of strategic intelligence for customer operations”
Consulting-Specifying Engineer’s 11th annual Product of the Year contest is the premier award for new products in the HVAC, fire/life safety, electrical, and plumbing systems engineering markets. The annual reader-choice program was created to provide CSE’s readers with information about the top new products in their fields. Winners are selected by qualified subscribers of CSE magazine and newsletter. Echelon’s lighting control product was voted best new product from a selection of six products.
Lumewave by Echelon Microwave Sensor — Enhancing Safety
The Lumewave by Echelon Microwave Sensors are used to enhance safety and use true Doppler Radar and FFT techniques to differentiate between pedestrians and vehicles in real time—detecting approaching vehicles at more than 400 feet and pedestrians at 100 feet—and to adjust lighting accordingly. The MWX-LVE-180U and MWX-LVE-90U models have 10 times the reach of infrared (IR) sensors, while remaining unaffected by harsh environmental conditions. This is the first Bluetooth-enabled very long-range microwave radar-based sensor and controller, specifically designed for controlling street, pathway and area lights.
About Echelon Corporation
Echelon Corporation (NASDAQ: ELON), a pioneer in developing open-standard control networking platforms, delivers elements necessary to design, install, monitor and control industrial-strength ‘communities of devices’ within the lighting, building automation, Internet of Things and related markets worldwide. Echelon sells its lighting products under the Lumewave by Echelon brand and its building automation and other IIoT-related products as part of its IzoT platform. With more than 100 million Echelon-powered devices installed worldwide, Echelon helps its customers easily and safely migrate existing control systems to the most modern platforms, while bringing new devices and applications into an ever-growing global Industrial Internet. Echelon helps its customers reduce operational costs, enhance satisfaction and safety, grow revenues and perform better in both established and emerging markets. More information about Echelon can be found at https://iiot.echelon.com, or www.echelon.com and at the company’s blog at blog.echelon.com.