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Echelon Teams With Infor to Deliver Turnkey Building Energy Management

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  Published in Science and Technology on Tuesday, April 26th 2011 at 6:11 GMT by Market Wire
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SAN JOSE, Calif.--([ BUSINESS WIRE ])--Echelon Corporation ([ NASDAQ ]: [ ELON ]) announced today that it has teamed with Infor, a leading provider of business application software serving over 70,000 customers, to deliver turnkey building energy management solutions for commercial and industrial customers based on Echelona™s SmartServer and Infora™s EAM Asset Sustainability Edition product. This new offering analyzes energy use and trends affiliated with a facility and specific equipment to determine optimal maintenance, replacement, and upgrade strategies. The solution will be sold through both Infora™s and Echelona™s worldwide distribution channels, initially targeting a combined installed base of over 300,000 buildings featuring control networks based on Echelona™s LonWorks^® technology and more than 70,000 Infor customers in 125 countries.

"Infora™s innovative use of energy data shows one of the many strengths of Echelon energy control networking"

aOur collaboration with Echelon helps us bring a solution to market on a common platform that serves our global business,a said Mitch Rowe, Infora™s VP and general manager, Global EAM Sales. aInfor EAM Asset Sustainability Edition looks at the actual efficiency of equipment as a function of energy use. Doing so identifies hidden maintenance related costs that can result in losses in the tens, even hundreds of thousands of dollars per year. This enables companies to become greener while dramatically lowering their cost of doing business.a

Combining energy analytics, advanced costing, and sustainability algorithms into a single service allows Infor to fine tune a facility for maximum life span of existing equipment, determine ideal replace or update strategies, and create sustainability strategies that dona™t involve massive rip-and-replace expenses. An example of a hidden inefficiency is when air filters in hotel rooms get partially clogged due to skipped or improper cleaning schedules. The resulting increased resistance to air flow leads to increased power output from fans that are trying to maintain optimal air pressure for guest comfort. This increased output wastes energy. Given a hotel may have 300 rooms per building and many locations, the cost burden can escalate geometrically.

aInfora™s innovative use of energy data shows one of the many strengths of Echelon energy control networking,a said Anders Axelsson, Echelona™s senior vice president, commercial markets. aOur customers continue to leverage the power of our technology in innovative and even tangential ways that deliver tremendous value to end-users. Infora™s collaboration with us shows that when it comes to energy, everything is connected and often interdependent, and we believe that energy control networks are the key to leveraging the interdependencies for reducing cost, managing energy, and delivering value to end-users.a

More information about Echelona™s SmartServer can be found at [ http://www.echelon.com/smartserver ].

About the Collaborative Solution

Infor EAM is a solution that is comprised of three basic components: sub-meters to monitor energy use, Echelona™s SmartServers to track and log energy data as well as direct monitoring of LonWorks based building automation equipment and other existing equipment, and Infora™s software solution. Core benefits of the collaboration include:

• Collect data for utilization and energy consumption
• Identify major equipment consuming energy
• Optimize consumption across equipment of the same or different type
• Comparative analyses of equipment lines and operating procedures
• Anomaly identification and proactive correction
• Near real-time visibility to energy consumption to facilitate behavioral change and control modifications
• Facilitate asset repair vs. replacement factoring energy into the equation

About Infor

Infor is a leading provider of business software and services, helping 70,000 customers in 125 countries improve operations and drive growth. To learn more about Infor, please visit [ www.infor.com ].

About Echelon Corporation

Echelon Corporation ([ NASDAQ ]: [ ELON ]) is the world's leading open-standard energy control networking company. Echelon technologies connect more than 35 million homes, 300,000 buildings and 100 million devices to the smart grid, and help customers save 20% or more on their energy usage. With more than 20 years of experience in energy control, Echelon delivers a wide range of innovative solutions to commercial and electric utility customers. More information about Echelon can be found at [ http://www.echelon.com ].

Echelon, LonWorks, 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 market acceptance of Echelona™s products and the timing and level of customer orders; risks relating to the timing of availability of Echelona™s SmartServers; risks that Echelon offerings do not perform as designed or provide the expected benefits, and that liability may accrue as a result; risks relating to market acceptance of Infora™s solutions that incorporate Echelona™s products; 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.