文档介绍：Deploying the “ of
Things”
Bob Dolin
Echelon Corporation
04H1122
An of things….
From a report by the International munications
Union, released at a UN summit in November 2005:
"It would seem that science fiction is slowly turning into
science fact in an ' of Things' based on
work connectivity," said the report.
"Today, in the 2000s, we are heading into a new era of
ubiquity, where the 'users' of the will be counted
in billions and where humans may e the minority
as generators and receivers of traffic."
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Agenda
z What does Echelon do?
z Coupling Echelon’s technology with the to save
significant amounts of energy
– Building automation
– Utility automation
– Outdoor lighting
z Issues with deploying large numbers of autonomous
devices
z Conclusion & Questions
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Echelon Overview
Echelon’s Founding Technology Premises
z Distributed control systems are inevitable, just as distributed
computing was 20 years ago...
– distributed control is a harder problem that puting
z distributed control is puters working together on a problem
– Can involve the synchronization of a single state machine
across work
z There is a general solution to the problem of distributed control
– there is enough mon to build a platform across all vertical
markets
z thus there is a large market for control infrastructure built around a
universal, world-wide, standard control technology
z Distributed control, built on top of an open, standard
communications infrastructure will create a market of multiple
component vendors
– bined product investment of panies will create a
compelling offering to end users and system integrators
– because distributed control is a difficult problem to solve, the barriers
to entry are high and there is a chance for a single standard to
emerge
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Echelon’s Product Goals
z Fulfill the technology premises by:
– Developing prehensive set of development and
ins