Energy Harvesting Wireless Sensor Solution from EnOcean Enables Optimal Energy Management

Inspired by nature

The major concepts of energy-autonomous wireless sensors are:

Harvesting of energy from their surroundings
Strategy for minimal energy consumption
Organization in collectives
Communication even in disturbed conditions

But that is what most living things do - and to a much greater degree of perfection. Models in nature consequently inspired EnOcean's technical solutions and continue to influence them.

EnOcean uses a system of distributed intelligence so that everything keeps working if a component fails. This means that each functional node has its own local processor that detects measured data for example, controls energy management and wireless transmission, and can make its own decisions.

Energy harvesting wireless sensor solutions

Energy harvesting wireless sensor solution form EnOcean

Topology of wireless sensor networks	Wireless technology is not the best solution to all problems. Wired communication is bound to keep its place. What does the optimal mixture of battery-less wireless nodes, line powered wireless nodes and wired information channels look like? Our answer to this is smart routing.
Energy management	How do you use available energy so that as little as possible is needed for each action? How do you achieve what you want with fewer actions? The more intelligence is invested in energy management, the more powerful and cost-attractive the components become and the system too.
Software concept	EnOcean wireless modules always come with software. This is either so specialized that no modifications are necessary like with the PTM 200 light switch module, or it allows application-specific configuration as in the TCM 130 transceiver module. The aim in every case is easy use of the technology without special knowledge.
Sensor links	Instead of separate wireless sensor modules for each measured variable, EnOcean presents general-purpose modules to which the user can simply connect a variety of different sensors.