SAN JOSE, Calif., Oct. 31, 2013 -- Echelon Corp., a pioneer in developing open-standard control networking platforms, recently announced that it is broadening its award-winning embedded control technology platform to serve the emerging Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) market. In doing so, Echelon is bringing to bear its 25 years of experience in networking and controlling more than 100 million industrial devices worldwide.

What: IEEE Standards Association IoT Workshop 2013 keynote: "Are Commercial & Industrial IoT Requirements the Same as Machine to Machine (M2M) IoT? This keynote presentation will explore whether M2M-based requirements automatically translate to commercial and industrial Internet of Things (IoT) applications. It will cover distributed monitoring and data analysis versus peer-to-peer device communication and control, "communities of devices" within the IoT, IoT chip requirements, the relationship between M2M and IoT applications, control networking for commercial and industrial versus M2M IoT, and the Industrial Internet (an IoT subset).

Who: Robert Dolin, Chief Technology Officer (CTO), Echelon Corp.

When: November 6, 2013, at 11:45 a.m.

Where: The Computer History Museum, Mountain View (Silicon Valley), California

More information: Visit the IEEE Standards Association IoT 2013 Workshop website at http://iot.ieeesa-events.org/. See more about Echelon and its IIoT offerings at iiot.echelon.com or www.echelon.com.

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Colleen Martell
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