RE: Anyone ever used Lonworks ?

["Neil Ball" <neilball@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

No Tim, the Lon protocol is owned and licensed by Echelon Corporation for
use by other companies who need a robust network protocol for their
products
such as smartkontrols. This in theory means that providing you know what
variables are being used and what the addressing structure is in place then
you can simply plug in and start to talk to the system. The reality is a
little more complicated but in essence this does work. Lon stands as an
open, published standard in the controls market alongside others such as
EIB
etc. As I said, I'm not a Lon guru, I just know enough to work with the
systems I spec, design & commission.

HTH

Neil B.

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From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Hawes,Timothy Edward (GEG)
Sent: 07 June 2005 14:34
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Anyone ever used Lonworks ?


Thanks for clarifying that Neil - my memory doesn't seem to be quite
what it was, if indeed it ever 'was' . . .

So if I understand your description correctly, smartkontrols and LON use
similar protocols, but part of each protocol is specific to each vendor.
However interfaces are available to cross-communicate.

I can't say that I've looked at your system in any great detail before
however I've just found the website so will be spending some time there
soon and finding out more :-)

Cheers,

Tim.



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