LS Industrial Systems, through its recent acquisition of Planet System Corporation, and Yitran Communications have entered into a cooperative agreement for a line of PLC based products designed for Home command and control, Energy management and AMR/AMI systems. LS Industrial Systems, the leading partner in forming the Smart Grid standard in Korea, will use Yitran’s IT700, designed for HomePlug Command and Control (C&C), in their PINS (Powerline Integrated Network System) line of products.
The agreement is an extension of Yitran’s long time cooperation with Planet/LS, in supplying a line of PLC based controllers to LG for 12 of LG’s white goods appliances. LS/Planet will also promote and sell Yitran IT700 components and reference designs to the Korean market. By signing this agreement LS/Planet demonstrates its support to the HomePlug C&C standard (based on Yitran’s IT800 transceiver technology) and commitment to promote this as part of the Korean Smart Grid initiative.
Yitran’s leadership in PLC began with IT800 (7.5Kbps), which was selected by HomePlug as the baseline technology for the HomePlug C&C open standard. Yitran also recently announced that its next generation PLC IC, DCSK Turbo (IT900) at 500Kbps. IT900 will feature a full protocol stack and will provide more than 40 times greater throughput than the IT800/IT700 series and provides upper layer support for SE1.0, IP and SE2.0.
About Yitran Communications
Yitran designs, develops and markets high performance, low cost PLC modem chips that provide extremely robust, reliable communication over existing electrical wiring, suitable for the demands of the Smart Grid market. http://www.yitran.com/.
About Planet/LS
LS Industrial Systems is currently the market leader in industrial electric power and automation sectors in Korea and was recently recognized as “Power Distribution Equipment Company of the Year 2009” in Asia-Pacific region by Frost & Sullivan. With fostering four fields – electric vehicle components, green electric power IT, new and renewable energy, and environmentally-friendly electric equipment – as new growth engine businesses, the company pursues to be a global company that leads an age of what it calls “Low Carbon, Green Growth”. http://eng.lsis.biz/.