LonWorks is a networking platform created by Echelon. Devices in a LonWorks network communicate through the LonWorks protocoal. This provides a set of services that lets a device's application program send and receive messages to and from other network devices - without needing to know the network topology or the other deviced' names, address, or functions. |
The LonWorks protocol, and thus LonWorks networks, can be implemented over basically any medium, including power line, twisted pair, radio frequency (RF), infrared (IR), coaxial cable and fiber optics. The LonWorks control networks is peer-to-peer (P2P) architecture while in P2P, there is no single "master" on the network. |
