Echelon Corporation was an American company which designed control networks to connect machines and other electronic devices, for the purposes of sensing, monitoring and control. Echelon was acquired in September of 2018 by Adesto Technologies, which itself was acquired in 2020 by Dialog Semiconductor. In 2021, Dialog Semiconductor became a subsidiary of Renesas Electronics.[1]
History
Echelon was founded in February 1988 in Palo Alto, California by Clifford "Mike" Markkula Jr.[2] The chief executive was M. Kenneth Oshman. Echelon's LonWorks platform for control networking was released in 1990 for use in the building, industrial, transportation, and home automation markets. At its initial public offering on March 31, 1998, its shares were listed on the