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    Semitech, Occitaline, and Safesquare Launch Babi-LON Platform

    Integrated Hardware/Software Solution Advances Power-Line Comms

    July 16, 2025
    Semitech Semiconductor, Occitaline, and Safesquare released the Babi-LON platform, which blends hardware and software for LonWorks power-line communication.
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    Semitech Semiconductor, Occitaline, and Safesquare recently unveiled the Babi-LON platform, an integrated hardware and software solution for LonWorks power-line communication (PLC) networks. Leveraging Semitech’s SM2400 multi-mode PLC transceiver, it supports the EIA-709.2 protocol for the PLC physical layer.

    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.

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    Alix Paultre | Editor-at-Large, Microwaves & RF

    Alix is Editor-at-Large for Microwaves & RF. 

    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.

    Alix currently lives in Wiesbaden, Germany.

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