Frost & Sullivan, a leading market analyst firm, has released a European smart metering market research report that describes the industry challenges, smart metering selection criteria, and smart metering project results to date — as well as Echelon's technology and 21st Century smart grid vision.

With the highest installed base market share of 95 percent in Italy, 60 percent in Denmark, 40 percent in Sweden, the current largest deployment of 100,000 meters undertaken by Echelon in Norway and other projects in Finland, Austria and Russia have resulted in Echelon holding a cumulative share of about 81 percent in smart meter deployment until 2010.

Echelon’s power line technology is used by Enel S.p.A. of Italy to network approximately 30M residential electricity meters.  The same technology is incorporated in Echelon’s smart transceivers.

Both the signaling technology and the communications protocol used in Echelon’s PL 3120 and PL 3150 smart transceivers are part of the EN14908 control standard (and ISO/IEC14908 standard).  Echelon’s smart transceivers combine a Neuron® microprocessor core (8 bit processing with EN14908 embedded in firmware) and EN14908.3 power line signaling in a single chip.