Echelon Honors Partners at its Annual Smart Grid Conference
Top Smart Grid VARs Recognized for Excellence; Telvent Named Partner of the Year
Echelon, a global leader in energy control networking for smart grid, smart city and smart building applications, announced its 2012 partner award winners at its annual Smart Energy Conference held in Budapest, Hungary.
The company presented eight Outstanding Achievement awards to its Smart Grid Partners.Winners announced were:- Echelon Partner of the Year and Top Performer – Telvent GIT, S.A, a Schneider Electric company, serving Echelon customers worldwide
- Echelon Best Implementation – Eltel Group Corporation
- Echelon New Market Leader – Holley Metering, Ltd.
- Echelon Application Excellence – System Level Solutions (SLS)
- Echelon Most Deployed Smart Metering Application – Ubitronix System Solutions GmbH
- Echelon Most Deployed Street Lighting Solution – Streetlight.Vision
- Echelon New Street Lighting Application – FlashNet
- Echelon Application Excellence – LG CNS
"We are honored to recognize and reward these partners for their continued success and applaud them for going above and beyond to capitalize on the strength and value of Echelon’s proven, open standards, multi-application energy control networking solutions," said Michael Anderson, SVP, Worldwide Markets, Echelon. "Together, we are making the grid smarter."The awards were founded to recognize achievements by Echelon's top Smart Grid Partners in the areas of sales and commitment to customer excellence. The awards also recognize key resellers and application development partners that together, with Echelon, offer complete turn-key energy control networking solutions for smart grid, smart city and smart building applications.2012 Innovators of the Year AwardsEchelon also announced that GreenWave Reality and Streetlight.Vision received the 2012 Smart Energy Innovator of the Year awards for their outstanding achievements and commitment in the areas of technology expertise and service specialization that result in new energy efficient services for customers. Participants in the Innovator of the Year awards were judged by Echelon's Smart Energy Conference attendees. Winners were selected based on uniqueness of innovation, usefulness of application and value to customers based on market need and benefits achieved. Ideal innovations are real-world tested and interoperable via open standards.