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| Information About EnOcean Alliance |
The EnOcean Alliance is a consortium of companies dedicated to the advancement of self-powered interoperable wireless building control systems. Alliance innovations create interoperable standard solutions helping to make buildings more energy efficient, flexible and cost effective. For more information, visit the Web site at http://www.enocean-alliance.org.
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EnOcean's simple yet intelligent, self-powered wireless switches and sensors are powered by energy drawn from movement, light or even changes in temperature rather than batteries. This harvested energy is used for transmitting sensor data within a building to control lighting, blinds, heating or air conditioning without the need for cabling. In addition to its eco-friendliness, the technology is easily installed and maintenance-free, ensuring unparalleled flexibility at the lowest investment and operational cost for sustainable buildings.
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EnOcean Alliance
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The following are a sampling of recent short excerpts from news articles that mention the EnOcean Alliance, the technology or members. Read the full stories here.
EnOcean Wireless Standard for a Healthy Climate in the Home (www.hbdonline.eu, 30.07.2008)
"Self-build" specialist WeberHaus sets ecological and economical building installation benchmarks with EnOcean wireless technology.
EnOcean Module Shipments of Wireless Sensors to Reach $1.4 billion in 2013, Says WTRS (PR-inside.com, 23.07.2008)
"New EnOcean 'energy harvesting' technology enlists 74 members in their month-old EnOcean Alliance, including such names as Distech Controls, Texas Instruments, Masco, Sylvania, Thermokon and more.
Ivory Egg and EnOcean Alliance Bring Lighthive Installation to 100% Detail (www.cpbsonline.eu, 22.07.2008)
"Ivory Egg together with EnOcean Alliance have pulled off a major coup in bringing Alex Haw's amazing Lighthive installation to their stand at 100% Detail, the leading the UK's premier contemporary interiors event at Earls Court, London.
Getting A Grip On Building Automation (Electrical Contracting Products, July 2008)
"[...]'The challenge always has been in getting people to adopt the technology', says Graham Martin, CEO of the EnOcean Alliance.'Adoption of any technology is usually slow, but the pace is picking up for building automation systems.
Masco Announces Partnership with EnOcean Alliance for Self-Powered Wireless Control Systems (www.buildingonline.com, 17.07.2008)
"Masco Corporation" has partnered with the EnOcean Alliance, a consortium of innovative international corporations with a mission to standardize wireless control systems for sustainable buildings.
Breaking News - A No-Glitch Switch (www.enzinearticles.com, 10.07.2008)
"Imagine being able to move all your furniture around without having to worry about obstructing the light switches - because the light switches can just be moved at random!
Imagine being able to switch all the lights on in your house just as you approach your own driveway - from a remote control in the car!
RS components launch eco-friendly product range (www.cieonline.co.uk, 10.07.2008)
"Company unveils over 1,600 best-in-class power-efficiency products[...]Also featured are EnOcean wireless control, switching and sensing products that don't need external power or batteries as all the power is generated internally"
EnOcean's "Stealth Attack" in the Home Automation Market (abiresearch.com, 27.06.2008)
"Key benefits of energy-harvesting in the context of building automation are the elimination of the material costs and the operational expense and complexity of maintaining a large number of batteries in the deployed sensor and actuator nodes.
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| EnOcean Alliance News and Updates |
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The following are a sampling of recent short excerpts from new articles mentioned on the EnOcean Alliance web site. Read the full stories here.
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| Letter from the Chairman |
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Welcome to the premiere edition of EnOcean Alliance's quarterly newsletter. We are pleased to deliver right to your e-mail box news and updates about EnOcean Alliance ongoing activities related to the advancement of self-powered interoperable wireless building control systems. Alliance innovations create interoperable standard solutions, helping make buildings more energy efficient.
The market opportunities for EnOcean standard technology are rapidly growing. For example, the cost of raw materials-such as copper wire-as well as energy has doubled over the past two years. Adding complexity to this entire equation are increasing competition, tightening construction deadlines, rising labor costs, and an increasing need for flexibility. Across the globe the necessity to save costs, raw materials and energy, gains an ever-increasing momentum with individuals, companies, institutes, public offices and governments all playing their active part.
These issues converging together set the perfect scene to deploy EnOcean standard technology across the globe. Wireless and battery-less maintenance-free products can save between 30 and 70 percent on cabling, which results in significant construction time savings, and reduces building mess and rework necessity, while providing limitless flexibility in initial placement of switches and sensors and during any subsequent retrofit. In addition building automation systems, using EnOcean-based products can save about 30 percent in energy costs by intelligently controlling lighting, heating or air-conditioning. All in all, EnOcean-based products contribute to a major reduction in carbon footprints, costs and quality of living or work space.
The EnOcean Alliance founded in April by Masco, MK-Honeywell, Distech Controls, Thermokon, EnOcean, Leviton and Omnio to promote the wireless standard for sustainability, to educate and network the user community and to ensure the interoperability and user-friendliness of the products has already attracted over 60 active members. There are over 300 interoperable products available from over 60 different companies, with tens of thousands of buildings already enjoying the benefits of the technology - "No Wires. No Batteries. No Limits."
We hope you will continue to support us in making our world a better, safer, more comfortable and energy-efficient place.
Graham Martin
EnOcean Alliance, Inc.
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EnOcean Alliance Q&A
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Each edition, EnOcean presents a series of questions and answers with various members of our Board of Directors to educate our readers about each person's role and influence on shaping the Alliance's strategic direction.
Caroline Cadieux
Distech Controls
Promoter
www.distech-controls.com
Q: What is your role and responsibilities for the EnOcean Alliance?
A: Since 2004, I have been the marketing manager for Distech Controls, a manufacturer of innovative building automation solutions. In 2008, we joined the EnOcean Alliance as Promoter-founding members, and I was named on the Board of Directors of the Alliance and elected treasurer. Furthermore, I actively participate in the EnOcean Alliance Marketing Work Group and our Research and Development Director Charles Gauvin, ing., is a participant in the Technical Work Group.
Q: What about the EnOcean technology do you find particularly unique or interesting?
A: Distech Controls was particularly attracted to the wireless battery-less technology developed by EnOcean. We first integrated the EnOcean receiver on our controllers in 2006 and were able to quickly offer a seamless wireless battery-less sensing solution for building automation systems to our client base.
The technology presents many features that allow it to be readily integrated and commercially viable within building automation systems. Obviously, its main uniqueness comes from the fact that it is battery-less, using energy harvesting. But the availability of sensors and other wireless battery-less devices, really meant that this was a commercially available and viable solution that could be brought to market very rapidly.
Q: What does EnOcean Alliance intend to focus on in the last two quarters of 2008?
A: The EnOcean Alliance focuses on providing information on the features and benefits of the EnOcean wireless battery-less technology for all applications, ranging from building to industrial applications. As such, we are working to make known the products that were developed using EnOcean. It is important to promote the technology and its advantages, but more interesting for the general public, is the fact that products exist, work and are commercially available for immediate use.
Q: Why is EnOcean technology, which plays an important role in supporting sustainable buildings, the technology to help buildings go green?
The wireless battery-less technology is actually an important step forward for building automation. Building automation systems have always participated in making buildings "greener" by allowing for optimized use of energy, scheduling and appropriate monitoring, to name a few functions. Adding a wireless battery-less sensor or device to the building automation system adds multiple benefits, since the use of materials and cabling is reduced, no batteries are used and the building envelope does not need to be modified at the initial installation or for re-location to accommodate changing spaces (since no drilling or cabling is necessary). The wireless battery-less devices also allow monitoring of temperature, humidity and other functions in areas that traditionally could not be controlled, such as glass atriums or other spaces with intricate architectural features, since they can be installed easily on any surface. Again, this helps make these spaces and entire buildings so much more efficient as to energy usage/conservation and comfort with the added benefit of actually being a green technology.
Q: What would you like members and prospective members to know about you either personally or professionally?
A: As someone who has a marketing background and not an HVAC technology background per say, it is a great honor and pleasure for me to serve on the EnOcean Alliance board. All members bring something very interesting and a different view point to our conversations and thought process, and I sincerely believe that this Alliance will prosper into a rich resource for building and industrial automation industries as well as for the general public interested in green technologies.
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| Product Spotlight |
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The Radio Solar Presence Detector PM101
Omino AG announced the release of the Radio Solar Presence Detector PM101 with an integrated brightness sensor, it is a device based on the EnOcean technology. It sends a radio data telegram to radio actuators and radio gateways of the Ratio radio bus systems to turn energy consumers on and off (e.g., lights, shutters, motor-driven actuators).
The Radio Solar Presence Detector PM101 features two modes of operation with a total of five channels (4 x type PTM and 1 x type STM). Channels 1 and 3 evaluate the presence relative to the currently measured brightness, channels 2 and 4 evaluate only the presence and channel 5 sends all information (states of channel 1 and 2, current and stored brightness value). Energy is supplied through the conversion of room light into electrical energy by means of a solar generator; the electrical energy is stored in capacitors. Typical areas of application are semi and fully automated illumination control systems and occupancy detection / presence (e.g., in offices, school and conference rooms and shops). For more information go to: PM101.
Verve™ Living Systems
Masco Corp. announced the launch of Verve Living Systems . Verve Living Systems will initially include a groundbreaking new lighting control system that combines energy-harvesting and radio frequency technologies to offer wireless, battery-less lighting control that can offset builder costs and provide homeowners numerous lifestyle and energy-savings benefits.
Developed by EnOcean GmbH, a Siemens Corporation spin-off, the radio frequency technology utilized in the Verve system eliminates the need for wiring between lights and light switches. In this way it improves new home construction by reducing the use of copper wiring, which in turn lowers material and labor costs. At the same time, it eliminates the problems and inefficiencies of having to move or rewire light switches. What's more, because the switches are energy-harvesting, capturing energy from the simple movement of clicking the switch, they don't require any batteries.
Masco is a proud founding member of the EnOcean Alliance and uses it's standardized wireless control systems for sustainable buildings around the EnOcean energy-harvesting and radio-frequency technology. For more information on Verve Living Systems, view an on-camera interview with Reed Publishing's HousingZone.com.
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| Tradeshow Update |
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The EnOcean Alliance will have a presence at the following tradeshows.
100% Detail
London, UK
Sept. 18-21, 2008
Grow your ideas:Uncover the latest developments in design, innovation and sustainability for the built environment at 100% Detail London 2008. More than 150 exhibitors plus a "not to be missed" conference program make 100% Detail London the UK's definitive home-grown building products event.
Green Sustainable Building Controls Conference
Dallas, Texas
Sept. 22-24, 2008
Participate in this ground-breaking industry event to see how others have done it and learn how you can too. Join us in Dallas to supercharge your "green IQ" and build your sustainability toolkit by participating in this must-attend educational event.
Wireless Technologies Congress 2008
Bochum, Germany
September 24, 2008
The Wireless Technologies Conference provides a qualified overview on basics and developments of the various wireless technologies as well as examples for application from the fields of automation technology, automotive, home-and-building automation, medical technology and wireless applications. The high-quality lectures from industrial and scientific experts discuss the changes of the wireless world while workshops communicate basic-and-background knowledge for the assessment of current trends regarding individual questions.
M&E Builders Services
London, UK
Oct. 8-9, 2008
This conference covers sources and best practices from industry-leading organizations.
Hi-Tech Building and House
Moscow, Russia
Oct. 30-November 1, 2008
Hi-Tech Building and House exhibition presents leading world technologies and equipment for building automation and management, complex solutions for commercial, industrial and residential buildings, Intelligent Building, Smart House and "Passiv Haus" completed projects.
RealTech Middle East
Dubai, UAE
Nov. 3-4, 2008
RealTech Middle East 2008 is a unique event that brings together the real estate technology industry and the Middle Eastern business community to discuss and debate global best practices that pertain to technology, automation and innovation in the real estate industry.
Energy Efficiency and Sustainability Symposium
Atlanta, US
Nov. 5-6, 2008
This conference highlights the latest technologies and applications of green and energy efficient products and services. The presentations will be particularly orientated toward industrial, manufacturing and facilities operations. This event will feature presentations on corporate sustainability, green manufacturing, renewable energy, energy efficiency, green building practices and financing, as well as the latest market trends, best practices, case studies and opportunities for "greentech" implementations.
Gebäudesystem 2008
Frankfurt, Germany
November 13, 2008
Electronica 2008 / Wireless Congress Munich 2008
Munich, Germany
Nov. 11-14, 2008
The world's leading trade fair for systems, components and applications.
GreenBuild
Boston, USA
Nov. 18-21, 2008
USGBC's Greenbuild conference and expo is an unparalleled opportunity to connect with other green building peers, industry experts, and influential leaders as they share insights on the green building movement and its diverse specialties.
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