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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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May 17-19, 2011
Lightfair 2011, Philadelphia, USA
EnOcean Alliance and partners exhibit.
Mar 15-19, 2011
ISH 2011, Frankfurt, Germany
EnOcean Alliance and partners exhibit.
Mar 15-17, 2011
Electronica & Produtronica China, Shanghai, China
EnOcean exhibits.
Mar 01-04, 2011
Climatizacion Madrid 2011, Madrid, Spain
EnOcean Alliance exhibits.
Mar 1-3, 2011
ECOBUILD, London, UK
EnOcean Alliance and member companies Distech Controls and MK Electric exhibit.
Jan 31-Feb 02, 2011
AHR Expo 2011, Las Vegas, USA
EnOcean Alliance and members exhibit.
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Greetings! ,
I thank everyone for making this a fantastic year for the EnOcean Alliance and its member companies. We are very proud to see a 50-percent increase in membership to over 160 companies including our new Promoters Texas Instruments and Jäger Direkt, a doubling in the number of interoperable products offered by our members to over 600 and hundreds of thousands of building projects already successfully using the energy harvesting technology. We have entered a new phase in adoption around the globe with massive increases in North American installations, first deployments in Japan, China and Middle East, adding of course to our existing position as the leading wireless standard for sustainable buildings across Europe. Looking forward to 2011, we will be adding resources to strengthen and further support our member companies, helping to create more awareness and market pull for energy harvesting solutions whilst ensuring product interoperability, assisted by the cooperation in our Technical Working Group and the next release of the EnOcean Standard.
I look forward to another successful year with new energy harvesting wireless solutions.
Best regards
Graham Martin
Chairman & CEO EnOcean Alliance
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 Canada: Bidirectional EnOcean/BACnet integration for a cardboard factory
Building automation system contractors have been looking for easy and seamless ways to integrate EnOcean wireless to the systems they already use. Ways that would provide bidirectional communication and control of EnOcean devices from a regular building management system front-end. Such a solution would have to rest on two pillars of expertise: wireless communication and multi-protocol integration. This is what CAN2GO's wired and wireless line of controllers with embedded gateways has managed to do.
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 France: EnOcean technology in first French bioclimatic building with positive energy
Wieland Electric joins in an environmental policy by participating in the ambitious Pôle Solère project, the first bioclimatic building of offices with positive energy. The 4200 sqm building of three levels was fitted with a Wieland Electric radio-controlled solution using EnOcean wireless technology (150 lights with graduation and 250 TOR lights). The engineering consulting firm ENERTEC as well as the installer CEME SOTRELEC, which collaborated on this project, were looking for a lighting management solution. They were attracted by the modularity and performance of the solution proposed by Wieland.
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 Canada: Laval University turns to wireless technologies and Regulvar's building automation know-how
Laval University, which is located in Quebec City, was North America's first francophone university. Its campus has approximately 30 buildings covering almost 2 km2 and the university welcomes some 45,000 students annually. Inaugurated in 1968, the Jean-Charles-Bonenfant Building is now home to various services and faculties, but its primary purpose is housing the institution's largest library. Due to its age, the building is being renovatedwith Regulvar's building automation know-how, which includes completely retrofitting the 4th floor.
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 MK Electric: Self-powered wireless Echo range gains dual purpose switch
MK Electric, the UK's leading manufacturer of wiring devices and accessories, has enhanced the Echo range of innovative self powered switches with the addition of the K5420R, a combination switch receiver and repeater designed mainly for installation in ceiling voids for wiring into the lighting circuit. This latest development further reduces the stock required to wire an installation because, when installed and powered but not programmed with transmitters, it will work as a repeater, so eliminating the need to stock separate repeaters.
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 CAN2GO: Bidirectional VAV controller with BACnet gateway
CAN2GO recently launched a new Variable Air Volume (VAV) building automation controller capable of bidirectional communication with EnOcean and wired end-devices. The controller features an embedded EnOcean transceiver and an EnOcean-to-BACnet gateway, allowing total wireless control of energy-harvesting end-devices within an end-to-end BACnet system. Extending the reach of centralized building automation systems, the VAV controller is a fully-programmable device with an on-board pressure sensor capable of meeting VAV application requirements. The CAN2GO controller can act either as a stand-alone product or be integrated into a larger BACnet system.
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 Intesis Software: New USB EnOcean gateways
Intesis Software presents two new bidirectional USB EnOcean gateways: USB-ENO and USB-ENO-ASCII for both EnOcean frequencies. These gateways have a small dimension and don't require any external power supply, making them the perfect candidates for home integrations. The USB-ENO-ASCII is specially designed to enable supervision and control of any Enocean Gateways for Air Conditioners from USB enabled controllers or PC software using simple text messages, while the USB-ENO is a transparent USB EnOcean gateway and repeater.
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 ILLUMRA: Door/Window Sensor Saves Energy
ILLUMRA offers a new solar powered wireless Door/Window Sensor. This new product maximizes the energy savings of heating and air conditioning systems by providing wireless status of windows and/or doors. Energy waste can be reduced by 20 to 60 percent by disabling blowers and/or adjusting temperature setpoints in HVAC systems when windows and doors are left open. The wireless Door/Window Sensor is a key component to reducing energy waste in hotel, condominium and dormitory buildings.
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 Beckhoff: New bidirectional EnOcean modules complement Beckhoff building automation solutions
Beckhoff has introduced the ability to integrate the entire EnOcean portfolio into the Beckhoff PC-based automation system with the new KL6583 bidirectional EnOcean based product. These new modules are characterized not only by the EnOcean technology for wireless, battery-less building products, but also by appealing new housings and the option to distribute several modules in buildings more simply and economically via a bus system.
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 Unotech: Universal light dimmer
The new light dimmer from Unotech is controlled either using the black button at the front or remotely via EnOcean protocol based switches or sensors. It can by simple programming be made to interact with most of Unotech's wireless transmitters. The Rxd300/LCR is for universal load and can be used with incandescent, 230V halogen as well as low-voltage halogen lamps through wire-wound or electronic low-voltage transformers.
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 Intesis Software: Control your Air conditioner - Daikin and Mitsubishi electric AC Interfaces
Intesis Software presents a new EnOcean interfaces to control Mitsubishi Electric and Daikin Air Conditioner (AC) indoor units. These bidirectional devices open EnOcean systems to full control AC units, being able to both actuate the indoor unit and overview its status. The AC interfaces are available for both EnOcean working frequencies, 868 MHz (ME-AC-ENO-1 and DK-AC-ENO-1) and 315 MHz (ME-AC-ENO-1C and DK-AC-ENO-1C).
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Texas Instruments upgrades its commitment to EnOcean Alliance for energy-efficient buildings
Texas Instruments (TI) has become a promoter of the EnOcean Alliance, of which it has been a member since 2008. By upgrading to promoter status, TI is reinforcing its commitment to EnOcean's energy-harvesting wireless technology and will provide its expertise in energy-efficient integrated circuits (ICs). The EnOcean Alliance, founded in 2008, is driven to establish EnOcean as an international standard for sustainable buildings. The alliance counts more than 160 members worldwide, including leading companies from the building technology and electronics sectors.
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 CAN2GO wins AHR Innovation Award in the software category for its embedded IP web interface
The small and medium buildings' market is largely void of building automation solutions because of high fixed system costs, which act as a barrier to entry for the industry. The CAN2GO embedded IP web interface, winner of the 2011 AHR Innovation Awards in the software category, changes this paradigm by eliminating gateway, server and software costs. The building automation interface is hosted directly by CAN2GO wired and wireless controllers, providing a shorter payback period for end-users, and a new market for system integrators and OEMs.
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 ILLUMRA LED Dimmer Wins Best Dimming Control at The LED Show
ILLUMRA has won "Best Dimming or Control" at The LED Show in Las Vegas. A panel of LED experts reviewed the dimmer and announced the award in August 2010. The constant-voltage dimmer is available in a wireless or wired configuration that responds to hardwired or wireless battery-free controls to adjust the brightness of LED fixtures. The wired version is also available with an industry standard 0-10V input.
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 Echoflex wins Best Application of Energy Harvesting at IDTechEx Energy Harvesting Conference
Echoflex received the award for the best application of energy harvesting at the 2010 IDTechEx Energy Harvesting Conference in Boston. Echoflex uses the combination of efficient energy harvesting with ultra low powered circuitry. The motion occupancy sensor (MOS-17C) was a project Echoflex undertook to complement their lighting control line of wireless embedded controllers. The sensor had to be suitable in common commercial office lighting applications and interface directly with the embedded lighting controllers. The sensor is designed to meet EnOcean standardized telegrams and is available in 315 and 868 MHz.
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EMerge Alliance introduces first registered products for DC power distribution in commercial buildings
The EMerge Alliance - an open industry association leading the rapid adoption of safe direct-current (DC) power distribution standards for commercial buildings - announced the first set of 26 EMerge Alliance Registered products at the U.S. Green Building Council's annual International Conference and Expo. According to EMerge Alliance Chairman Brian Patterson, the growing support for DC power and the introduction of Registered products provides real solutions for more sustainable and flexible buildings via efficient DC power distribution.
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EMerge Alliance advances DC power distribution platform to focus on energy efficient data centers
The EMerge Alliance - an open industry association leading the rapid adoption of safe direct-current (DC) power distribution standards for commercial buildings - announced it has formed a new technical standard committee for data and telecommunications centers and added 11 new members as part of the group's planned expansion to address building-wide opportunities for reduced power consumption.
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