Connecting Machines and Devices

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Echelon Corp.
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Connecting Machines and Devices
From the Louvre in Paris, to
the New York City subway
system – Echelon’s control
applications make our
lives more comfortable,
convenient, and safe.
In the core of Echelon’s
LonWorks ecosystem:
A Versant embedded
object-oriented database.
“We’re very pleased with the Versant object-oriented database.
The database just works and is fully integrated into our application
model. Technical Support is not needed much, but when needed,
the support team is great. We don’t spend time worrying about
mapping objects, or writing low-level object migration code. We have
recommended the Versant database to other projects in the past
and would enthusiastically do so again.”
Jim Von De Bur, Manager of Software Tools, Echelon Corp.
Challenge
Echelon is a pioneer and world leader in control networks and embedded control networks,
which connect machines and other electronic devices. They needed an embedded database
compatible with the object-oriented application model.
Solution
Versant embedded object databases are capable of handling the 70+ application classes,
with up to 32,000 device instances on one network, including deep inheritance hierarchies,
complex relationships among application objects, and high performance to store and retrieve
a persistent network size of several hundred megabytes.
Results
Echelon created the LonWorks platform, an extremely robust, flexible, and expandable
standards-based control networking platform and ecosystem upon which manufacturers can
build products and applications with unparalleled reliability, security, operational integrity,
flexibility, and bottom-line value. The Versant embedded object-oriented database offers
developers more productivity, high performance at runtime, and the economy of a low
maintenance database.
Embedded Control Networks
Echelon is a pioneer and world leader in control networks, which connect machines and
other electronic devices, and embedded control networks, which are networks inside
machines that connect tiny sensors and actuators that comprise the workings
of a machine.
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Echelon Corp.
Echelon created the LonWorks platform, an extremely
robust, flexible, and expandable standards-based
control networking platform and ecosystem upon which
manufacturers can build products and applications with
unparalleled reliability, security, operational integrity,
flexibility, and bottom-line value. LonWorks is the world’s
most widely adopted standard for automating everyday
devices and systems. Hundreds of millions of people
have experienced a LonWorks based control network.
They’re used everywhere – from the Louvre to the
New York City subway system to Rhoponghi Hills in
Tokyo – to create control applications that make our
lives more comfortable, convenient, and safe.
OO-Database Required
A predecessor of LNS was introduced in 1991, using
procedural code and an embedded record oriented/
relational data storage toolkit. As object-oriented
programming began to emerge, the team realized
that using object-oriented programming was the
most productive way to add features and power to the
system. At the same time, the team realized that the
record oriented storage toolkit was an obstacle to
object-oriented development and a big usability problem
because it exposed the embedded database structure
to their broad OEM programmer community. They
needed an embedded database compatible with the
object-oriented application model, capable of handling
the 70+ application classes, with up to 32,000 device
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In 1994, the first version of LNS was introduced
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an object-oriented model in memory of the complete
network and all of the inter-element (peer-to-peer)
relationships of each network element. This model
creates the “program” for the network, initializing each
network element so that it can perform the desired roles.
Such a rich model is ideally suited to the use of the
OO-database and its powerful capability to store and
query objects.
Embedded for Seamless Deployment
The database is embedded for seamless deployment,
and requires no database tools or administration.
The automatic schema modification and data migration
capabilities of the Versant database make it easy to
enhance and evolve the LNS management system. The
Echelon development team has never been constrained
by the database in enhancing functionality. When a
major release occurs, with new features, capabilities,
and new database schema, the built-in tools of the
database automatically migrate the installed customer
databases, with no database or programming expertise
required by the servicing partner, or the customer.
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As of 2009, about 50 million intelligent LonWorks
network devices have been installed into about 1
million individual networks. Many of these instances
are configured using the LNS management system,
powered by the Versant database. The branding,
promotion, and compatibility testing and certification
of this platform is coordinated by the independent
trade organization, LonMark International. LonMark
has over 400 members using the LonWorks platform.
The platform is an international open standard,
ISO/IEC 14908-1.
Echelon supplies products to original equipment
manufacturers, systems integrators, utilities, and
value-added resellers from offices in the U.S., U.K.,
China, Japan, Germany, France, South Korea, and
The Netherlands, as well as channel partners
throughout the Americas, Asia, and Europe.
About Echelon
Echelon Corporation (NASDAQ: ELON) is leading
the worldwide transformation of the electricity grid
into a smart, communicating energy control network,
connecting utilities to their customers, enabling
networking of everyday devices, and providing customers
with energy aware homes and businesses that react to
conditions on the grid. The energy control network is
profoundly different from communications networks.
Where communications networks inform people and
move data from the edge to centralized data centers
for decision making, energy control networks have
smart devices at the edge that use embedded rules
to analyze and act, immediately, locally, and with
extreme reliability where they are needed most.
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