LANGHORNE, Pa., Oct. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- E-Mon, LLC, the electric submetering market leader and manufacturer of the widely installed E-Mon D-Mon® product line, announces the availability of a new LonWorks communication option (specify Option LTP) for converting electrical submeter data into the LonWorks communications format for building automation systems (BAS) and equipment control applications, including lighting and security systems, HVAC and more. Any E-Mon D-Mon Class 3000 or Class 5000 meter or Interval Data Recorder (IDR) equipped with Option LTP can communicate up to 40 meter data parameters to any BAS employing the widely used LonWorks protocol. Like E-Mon's other communication options, the LonWorks version provides similar electrical measurements, including: -- Energy and reactive energy, delivered and received (kWh); -- Real power (kW), total and by phase; -- Reactive (kVAR) and apparent (kVA) power, total and by phase; -- Power factor (percent), total and by phase; -- Current (A), voltage (V) and phase angle (degrees) by phase. "This communication option greatly extends E-Mon's reach into the Building Automation and Controls market by increasing the granularity of electrical measurements that can talk to BAS via twisted pair, power line carrier, wireless and other LonWorks-compatible media," said Don Millstein, president and CEO of E-Mon. "With the addition of the LonWorks option, E-Mon's complete line of communication options opens the door to deploying submeters in more than 80 percent of new and installed BAS control applications, including those using Modbus RTU and BACnet MS/TP and Ethernet-based protocols like Modbus TCP and BACnet IP." LonWorks has evolved into a leading industrial networking platform for building automation and control, with more than 60 million devices installed since the technology's introduction by Echelon Corporation in the 1980s. According to industry sources, LonWorks and BACnet share an approximately equal 40 percent share of TAM with the remainder of the building automation system market made up of other protocols. About E-Mon, LLC Established in 1981, E-Mon is the industry leader in solid-state electronic kilowatt-hour submeters, automatic meter reading software and other energy management products and services. Almost 500,000 E-Mon products are installed worldwide for tenant billing, cost allocation, demand side management, energy conservation and load profiling across the commercial, industrial, institutional, governmental and multi-family facility landscape. E-Mon is an active member of the Federal Energy Management Program task force, Alliance to Save Energy, Association of Energy Engineers, U.S. Green Building Council and other organizations. For further information, visit: www.emon.com.
