SEALSQ Joins ECHONET Consortium To Contribute To Enhancing Identity And Authentication Of ECHONET Lite Devices By Providing INeS PKI Platform Services To Consortium Members

SEALSQ Corp. (NASDAQ:LAES) ("SEALSQ" or "the Company"), which focuses on the development and sale of hardware and software products for semiconductors, PKI, and post-quantum technologies, today announces it has joined the ECHONET Consortium, a leading international standardization body for smart home and energy management systems. The ECHONET Consortium plans to significantly enhance its ECHONET Lite security framework with public key infrastructure (PKI) technology, and SEALSQ aims to contribute to enhancing the identity, authentication, and reliability of ECHONET Lite devices by providing its INeS (Identity Network Security) PKI platform services to Consortium members.

As smart homes, energy systems, and connected devices continue to scale rapidly, the need for robust, interoperable, and future-proof security mechanisms has become critical. By integrating PKI in its architecture, the ECHONET Consortium aims to ensure secure communications and scalable trust management for newly introduced devices. SEALSQ aims to contribute to this initiative by providing its INeS PKI platform, designed specifically for large-scale IoT and embedded environments. INeS enables secure device onboarding, certificate lifecycle management, authentication, and cryptographic trust.