This new standard, which was introduced in 1990, is used for communications control and has been maintained in the designations of several European, American and Chinese standards.
LonWorks network technology is used in almost every aspect of construction, automation, monitoring and control; additionally it is used in sectors such as transportation, home automation and various industrial applications.
The four parts of the standard comprise the basic protocol, the use of twisted pair, the free-topology transmission medium, and the use of the Internet protocol as a tunnel transmission medium.
