Echelon and ELO partnered to develop and market NES based smart energy meters

Echelon has entered into a technology licensing agreement with ELO under which ELO will develop and market smart energy meters based on Echelon's Networked Energy Services (NES) smart grid infrastructure solution.

Echelon's NES smart metering infrastructure solution enables a high scalable, integrated system of advanced electronic energy meters accessed via a Web services based network operating system over an IP networking infrastructure.

Echelon says, NES technology is used by utilities in Austria, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, Russia, Sweden, Switzerland, the United States, and other countries.

"Today's announcement is important for many reasons, and it represents a critical step forward in a large, emerging market with a market-leading partner," said Michael Anderson, Echelon's senior vice president, NES sales and market development. "With nearly 30 years of local experience and the largest meter market share in the county, ELO is an ideal partner for establishing the NES system as a market-leader in Brazil and throughout Latin America."

Anderson continued, "This announcement is also an important step into the enormous Latin American market for Echelon with an outstanding and proven partner and demonstrates the openness of our strategy. The NES system is an open, standards-based platform for the smart grid: open to application developers through web services; open to operate with any Internet protocol based network; open to expansion to in-home and other devices through the meter's secure expansion interface; and, as announced here today, NES is open for use with meters developed and sold by other manufacturers."

For more details visit www.echelon.com/nes