Semitech Semiconductor, Occitaline, and Safesquare released the Babi-LON platform, which blends hardware and software for LonWorks power-line communication.
Babi-LON is intended to replace legacy solutions like the Echelon-developed PL3120 transceiver. It handles applications such as smart metering, industrial automation, and transportation markets.
Offering reliability, advanced modulation, and performance under demanding noise conditions, the system serves as an advanced backward-compatible replacement for legacy EIA-709.2 solutions in LonWorks-based systems. The Babi-LON platform is also a development environment. It simplifies migration with standard interfaces and established protocol stacks, replacing obsolete systems while maintaining existing networks.
An Army veteran, Alix Paultre was a signals intelligence soldier on the East/West German border in the early ‘80s, and eventually wound up helping launch and run a publication on consumer electronics for the U.S. military stationed in Europe. Alix first began in this industry in 1998 at Electronic Products magazine, and since then has worked for a variety of publications, most recently as Editor-in-Chief of Power Systems Design.
