Echelon's FT 6000 family of smart transceivers is the next-generation system-on-chips for modernizing and consolidating smart control networks. It is a key product in Echelon’s IzoT platform, the most comprehensive and open control-networking platform for the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). It offers options for backward compatibility with LONWORKS^® while adding native IP addressing at the device level and consolidating multiple control protocols on the same device carried over the reliable and proven free topology channel. It is designed to bring unprecedented flexibility and openness while lowering development and device costs.

The FT 6000 smart transceiver family integrates a high-performance Neuron^® core with a free topology twisted-pair transceiver. Combined with the proven FT-X3 communications transformer and inexpensive Flash memory, the FT 6000 smart transceivers provide a very flexible, low-cost, feature enhanced LONWORKS or IzoT/IP or BACnet/IP solution all within the same device.

The FT 6000 smart transceiver supports polarity-insensitive cabling using a star, bus, daisy chain, loop, or combination topology. Thus, installers do not have to follow a strict set of wiring rules imposed by other networking technologies. Instead, they can install wiring in the fastest and most cost effective manner, thereby saving time and money.