Sep 16, 2014

European Utility Week 2014: EnOcean Alliance shows cross-vendor integrated smart home approach

Aug 14, 2014

EnOcean Alliance shows the batteryless way to energy-efficient buildings and smart homes at SIBT 2014

Jul 31, 2014

EnOcean Alliance to exhibit at The Energy Event 2014: Extensive Energy Management with Intelligent Wireless Solutions

Jul 2, 2014

EnOcean Alliance defines intelligent commissioning of smart buildings

Jun 4, 2014

Plugwise joins the EnOcean Alliance

With the beginning of autumn the leaves start to fall - whereas the energy bills tend to rise as demand for heating increases. Automated heating control is a major requirement for today's green buildings, both in the commercial and the residential sector. But what does heating control mean nowadays? In a commercial building, HVAC automation is an integrated system that synchronizes several technical areas to a comprehensive energy management solution. The intelligence is based on data which is collected by sensors and used for different purposes. Occupancy and light intensity sensors, for example, deliver the necessary information for both presence-dependent and daylight-dependent lighting control. The same data can be used to adapt the heating and ventilation depending on the actual situation. 

In the residential sector, the popularity of self-learning systems increases. Here, the automation can adapt to the tenants' behavior while also taking into account external influences and the latest situations. Modern solutions incorporate the weather data and a room's frequent use into the heating control system. In the future, they might also interpret statements such as "it's too hot in here."

To achieve such complexly networked systems, both areas require flexible wireless solutions offering batteryless maintenance-free operation and interoperable devices. From the very beginning, the EnOcean Alliance followed the approach of interoperability and open standard which allows products from different vendors seamlessly working together in a system. The Alliance's Technical Working Group continuously further develops the interoperability within the EnOcean eco-system. In recent times, they defined Generic Profiles, the first generic language for the communication of energy harvesting wireless solutions, and a Remote Commissioning specification, a uniform approach for the installation and long-term support of automation networks including EnOcean-based devices. These activities build the basis for our members' ongoing innovations and progresses in product development. Read about some of them in our newsletter from the third quarter 2014.

Best regards

Graham Martin

Chairman & CEO EnOcean Alliance 

For decades, BMW has been a household name among car and motorcycle enthusiasts alike, and now the same holds true for building and automation engineering experts. While the first group associates the brand with innovative motors and vehicles, the latter thinks of a new lighting control system, which lowers the energy costs of the popular Munich-based company by around 30 %. BMW is gradually expanding this solution based

on WAGO components using EnOcean technology to make it a company-wide standard as part of its sustainability strategy.

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China: Vossloh-Schwabe Shanghai office illuminates with EnOcean

The Vossloh-Schwabe Shanghai Office has adopted wireless batteryless EnOcean technology to its own lighting intelligent control system - LiCS Indoor - with the DALI protocol for the first time. The benefits reveal themselves through the perfect interoperability of the two systems and the resulting energy-saving immediately after installation. Easy configuration ensures the outstanding functionality of the VS LiCS controller, as a result of which EnOcean controls offer numerous possibilities for office lighting, school lighting, hotel lighting and workshop lighting to name a few.

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Germany: Maintaining a consistent temperature also with floor heating systems

Can a heating system save energy and increase comfort at the same time? HUF-Haus, the European market leader in modern timber-frame architecture made of wood and glass, wanted to find a solution for its customers that would do just that. The company is currently testing the alphaEOS system in one of its model houses - and it will soon use the system everywhere.

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Pressac Communications' latest product developments in the Pressac Sensing range

Visitors to The Energy Event 2014 were keen to improve their knowledge of current technologies and also to discover new developments in technology; and importantly, to find better solutions for energy savings and efficiencies within their organizations. The Pressac Sensing portfolio, with its range of innovative products for smart energy monitoring, was therefore ideally suited to the Energy Event's audience. The Pressac team demonstrated the latest phase of new products, including: the Pressac Sensing Dashboard, the Mini Temperature and Humidity Sensor and the Intelligent Relay.

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Kieback&Peter: en:key - energy efficiency in rooms and buildings

Cities, regional governments and communities are searching for new ways to lower their heating costs. A good example of this is Prenzlau, which has installed the innovative en:key room control system from Kieback&Peter as well as EnOcean technology throughout the Carl Friedrich Grabow secondary school. The city hopes to cut heating costs by at least 15 % by modernizing the school's technical installations.

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Digital Concepts: Where IP meets EnOcean

The Digital EnOcean Gateway from Digital Concepts combines the world of energy harvesting wireless technology with IP. It is the first intelligent EnOcean TCP/IP gateway aimed specifically at the system integration market. Digital Concepts received the SmartHome Deutschland Award 2014 in the "Startup" category for its innovative product strategy. Digital Concepts develops individual control concepts for the smart home and smart business markets. The objective of these solutions is to build a bridge between different standards and technologies, resulting in an integrated network of disciplines for maximum comfort and functionality.

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Spartan Peripheral Devices: Merging Sensing, Controls and EnOcean Wireless Technologies

Many old pneumatic projects are retrofitting into modern electric systems eliminating the obsolete pneumatic controls and compressors. EnOcean wireless products are an ideal way to quickly and efficiently achieve this goal. Two pipe heating and cooling systems, especially when they are used in induction units, pose an extra challenge as it requires for the controls to change from heating to cooling as the water supplied to the coil changes from hot to cold. Spartan Peripheral Devices introduced the EnOcean based wireless control valve actuator ME8395 for 902MHz and ME8385 for 868MHz that can be mounted on the complete range of 2 way and 3 way Spartan valve bodies or the valve bodies of many other manufacturers. The actuator can be controlled from the WT913G wireless (no batteries) room temperature sensors with set point or other EnOcean based room sensor with standard EEP A5-10-03, A5-10-04, A5-10-05, With an internal automatic changeover detecting water temperature this assembly can be used as a cooling/heating control valve for two pipe systems.

mivune: The modern functional building is versatile

The demand for multifunctional commercial buildings is fuelling a need for highly flexible automation. For this, seamless communication between bus systems is therefore a must. The mivune open operating system (OS) guarantees intelligent integration of various bus technologies in the interests of sustainable building control.

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Vesta-System: First universal configurator for EnOcean installations

Vesta-System has launched VestaEnergy AM (Architecture Manager), the first universal configurator for EnOcean installations, designed to work with any hardware platform from the market, including PCs. Thanks to a very easy to use graphical user interface, users can organize their own installation and configure each single component themselves. Subsequently VestaEnergy AM automatically configures all peripherals needed: databases 

(online or on-site), graphical user interfaces (web servers, Android-based applications), gateways, etc.

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Inlon: Hotel automation with Inlon Engineering's solution

Inlon Engineering, system integrator member of EnOcean Alliance, has implemented a solution fully wireless with RF protocol EnOcean for automation of hotel, offices, and residences. This solution allows integrating EnOcean products belonging to leading companies in the market as Eltako or Thermokon with a wide range of devices available worldwide adopting standard Power Line Communication based on LONWORKS� technology. INLON ENGINEERING introduced a gateway EnOcean / Power-Line (PLT) LONWORKS� standard protocol produced by our partner TIMM srl.

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European Utility Week 2014: EnOcean Alliance shows cross-vendor integrated smart home approach

Interoperability of several devices and solutions is key to smart homes. At European Utility Week 2014 (RAI Convention Centre, Amsterdam, 4-6 November), the EnOcean Alliance will demonstrate a smart home system integrating intelligent HVAC and lighting control with security and metering - all based on the EnOcean energy harvesting wireless standard but from different member companies. The demo shows an intelligent connected home which overcomes the limits of isolated building areas based on real-world applications. Visitors of the show can experience this cross-vendor smart home approach in hall 5 at booth H70.

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ID-RF to announce of its new brand NodOn^�

ID-RF SAS, French company located in both France and China, to announce the official release of its new brand NodOn�. NodOn� proposes a wide range of connected devices for smart home application, with a complete product line in EnOcean� wireless and battery-less technology, including the awards wining Soft Remote, and the world first battery-less opening sensors and temperature sensors with back-up battery slot for dark area use. NodOn� is the first brand proposing an EnOcean� product line fully dedicated to consumer electronic market, which means : Nice and contemporary design, based on designer research and insights ; Attractive public price, and clear and efficient distribution policy, trough distributors and dealers all around the world. NodOn� products are 100% designed, engineered and manufactured in our own R&D centers and manufacturing facilities.

 

Marketing tools for building professionals

 

EnOcean Alliance offers various Marketing tools on EnOcean technology for intelligent and green buildings. Videos, presentations and white papers cover EnOcean technology, the installation as well as basics of range planning.

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Join the 1st Enocean Alliance Fall University

The EnOcean Alliance eco system is growing steadily. To better understand the various EnOcean based solutions for intelligent and green buildings, the EnOcean Alliance invites building professionals to a two day training session (22-23 Oct 2014 in Domaine de Valpr� � Ecully, Lyon, France). The topics in the workshops range from EnOcean-based to solution to business models, services, interoperability and interfaces to other standards. There will be also a networking dinner on the 22th October.

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EnOcean at Wireless Congress

Matthias Kassner give a presentation on "Information (from) everywhere - the rise of autonomous self-powered sensors" (Nov 13, 2014) and Markus Kreitmair on "Smart Home with Energy Harvesting" (Nov 12, 2014). Visitors can get

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