Echelon Technology Selected for China's Growing Streetlight Market

Echelon Technology Selected for China's Growing Streetlight Market

April 25, 2007

LonWorks Platform Key to Long Term Strategy for China's
Enhanced Public Transportation Lighting Infrastructure 


    SAN JOSE, Calif. April 25 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ --
Echelon Corporation (Nasdaq: ELON), a leading provider of
networking technology that is used to manage and reduce
energy consumption, announced today that several major
highways and bridges in the Yangtze River Delta, one of the
fastest growing regions in China, have chosen Echelon's
LonWorks technology to better manage highway and bridge
lighting systems for increased security, beautification,
and reduced energy consumption. The lighting control system
will be installed and managed by Echelon's Authorized
Network Integrator Nanjing Lianhong Automation Co, Ltd. 

    "China's high growth transportation infrastructure
sector has put an urgent stamp on finding the most
innovative solutions for managing the country's power
quality, security and energy management processes,  said
Baocai Wu, Nanjing Lianhong's CEO. "Echelon's
ultra-reliable LonWorks technology and products provide the
ideal infrastructure required for long-term projects like
street and bridge lighting. The open technology ensures
that products from multiple manufacturers can be added to
the system, now or in the future. The ability to add new
functionality, modify energy savings applications, and
conduct remote management were the key attributes that led
to the selection of the LonWorks platform as the basis of
the overall solution.  

    Project integrator Nanjing Lianhong needed to create an
open, flexible and reliable lighting control system to
reduce energy consumption and increase security. Using
Echelon's i.LON  Internet servers and LonWorks open
standards networking protocol over a single fiber optic
network, Nanjing Lianhong is able to offer a system that
can remotely control and monitor substations, dehumidify
equipment, and serve as the public highway and bridge
lighting system. 

    One of the world's first open IP-based highway and
bridge implementations, more than 1,500 of China's highway
and bridge lights will be embedded with Echelon's LonWorks
networking protocol enabled FT smart transceivers.
Echelon's i.LON Internet server extends the local area
networks over the Internet and IP networks allowing all of
the sites to be remotely monitored using PCs and requiring
virtually no need for manpower. The system allows for
improved energy management and conservation, increased
security, and more efficient maintenance and operations.
Furthermore the networked lighting system will be leveraged
to beautify highways and bridges, turning the latter into
more notable landmarks. 

    "This win extends Echelon's lighting control
solutions to one of the world's most important markets, and
demonstrates the need for open, standards-based control
networks in both near and long-term projects,  said Ken
Oshman, Echelon's chairman and CEO. "Energy management
is a great benefit of networked public lighting systems, and
China's new highway and bridge lighting control system
exemplifies the benefits of LonWorks networks  
ultra-reliable control networks, open supplier markets now
and into the future, and extreme flexibility in function. 


    The following locations will use LonWorks based
solutions for lighting systems: 

    -- Shanghai and Nanjing highway, covering 288 km, a
key
       corridor linking the cities of Shanghai and Nanjing;


    -- Shanghai, Zhejian, Anhui and Jiangsu Expressway, a
key
       highway linking four provinces; 
    -- Jiangsu SuTong Yangzi River Bridge, one of the
longest
       suspension bridges in China; and 
    -- Hangzhou Qiantang River No. 4 Bridge. 

    About Nanjing Lianhong Automation, Co. Ltd

    Nanjing Lianhong Automation is a leading LonWorks
system integrator specializing in the public infrastructure
sector and offers innovative automation solutions for better
energy management and reduced maintenance operations. More
information about Nanjing Lianhong Automation can be found
at http://www.nla.com.cn/english/ . 

    About Echelon Corporation

    Echelon Corporation (Nasdaq: ELON) is networking
company that provides products and systems that can monitor
and save energy, lower costs, improve productivity and
enhance service, quality, safety and convenience by
networking together everyday devices in utility, buildings,
industrial, transportation and home control systems. Tens of
millions of smart devices based on Echelon’s LonWorks
products and Networked Energy Services (NES) systems are in
use around the world today bringing benefits to consumers
and industry. More information about Echelon can be found
at http://www.echelon.com . 

    Echelon, LonWorks, i.LON, and the Echelon logo are
registered trademarks of Echelon Corporation registered in
the United States and other countries. Other product or
service names mentioned herein are the trademarks of their
respective owners. 

    This press release may contain statements relating to
future plans, events or performance. Such statements may
involve risks and uncertainties, including risks associated
with uncertainties pertaining to the timing and level of
customer orders and demand for Echelon products and
services in outdoor lighting and other applications in
China and elsewhere; risks that these products do not
perform as designed, and that liability may accrue as a
result of the use of Echelon products and services in
outdoor or other lighting applications; risks associated
with the any changes that may occur in the directives
regarding outdoor lighting, safety or other policies, and
acceptance by local or regional government agencies of
LonWorks based solutions; risks relating to the growth of
the LonWorks industry; and other risks identified in
Echelon's SEC filings. Actual results, events and
performance may differ materially. Readers are cautioned
not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking
statements, which speak only as of the date hereof. Echelon
undertakes no obligation to release publicly the result of
any revisions to these forward-looking statements that may
be made to reflect events or circumstances after the date
hereof or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated
events. 


    For more information, please contact: 

     Julia O'Shaughnessy
     Echelon Corporation
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     Allyson Stinchfield
     Atomic Public Relations
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