LonWorks advantages

• Scalable system
  - Plug and play devices
• Distributed intelligence
• Peer to peer communication
• Many physical transmission media supported
• Free topology (Ref: Hertel 2002)

Examples

• Malmö University, Sweden,
  http://www.tac.se/referens/public%20administration/MoHigh_gb.htm
• http://www.lonmark.org/solution/building/malmo.htm
  
  
• Unibank, Copenhagen, http://www.lonmark.org/solution/building/unibank.htm

The LonMark Interoperability Association was formed in May 1994 by 36 companies and already has over 200 members. http://www.lonmark.org/about/about.htm

Echelon Ltd. was created in 1998 by Mike Markkula (from Apple). http://www.echelon.com/.