Product category: Communications ICs (Wired)
News Release from: Echelon | Subject: PL 3170 power line smart transceiver
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 16 April 2007
Power-line transceiver chip
for home automation
A power-line smart transceiver allows manufacturers to create networked home-control products that install automatically when plugged into a wall
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Echelon has brought out a new power-line integrated circuit that promises to speed and simplify the creation of consumer friendly home automation products. Echelon's PL 3170 power line smart transceiver allows manufacturers to create networked home-control products that install automatically when plugged into a wall - eliminating the fear and technology complexity that consumers associate with home automation.
This new power-line smart transceiver is the latest addition to the company's LonWorks products and Digital Home technologies - hardware and software products that are helping to drive the worldwide home automation market.
'Energy management is the key driver for home automation, and the devices that can help make a home more energy efficient - lights, fans, blinds, smart appliances, furnaces, air-conditioners, and power outlets - are already connected to the power wiring', says Bea Yormark, Echelon's President and COO.
'With our power line technology, these devices are already connected to the network'.
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'Now manufacturers have a 'no new wires' home automation solution that's also low cost, easy to develop, and doesn't require the help of an installer or electrician to install'.
Echelon's automatic installation software is known as Interoperable Self-Installation (ISI).
Echelon's PL 3170 smart transceiver combines power-line signaling technology with an applications processor and ISI software - all in a single chip.
The new chip also allows appliance manufacturers to easily and inexpensively create products in accordance with the CECED (European Committee of Manufacturers of Domestic Appliances) Household Appliances Control and Monitoring - Application Interworking Specification (AIS) standard.
The PL 3170 Smart Transceiver can be used in conjunction with Echelon's full range of LonWorks products, or independently.
The PL 3170 power line smart transceiver will be available in summer of 2007.
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