EnOcean sets radio standard for intelligent, energy-efficient buildings

Energy-efficiency was one of the keywords heard at the ISH, the World’s Leading Trade Fair for Bathroom, Building, Energy, Air Conditioning Technol-ogy and Renewable Energies, held from 6 – 10 March 2007. Presenting the latest product innovations and trends, the event attracted more than 215,000 visitors from all over the world. The innovative radio technology from EnOcean, which is powered by energy drawn from the ambient air, is rapidly becoming accepted as the standard for innovative sensor solutions in ecological building projects, ensuring greater energy efficiency.

Intelligent buildings need sensors to enable automation systems to optimally control technical equipment such as lights, shading systems, heating, air conditioning and ventilation. In some cases, simple systems are enough to provide significant energy savings in a building. Even as little as closing the heating control valve when opening a window can reduce the energy consumption by more than 5%, as has been impressively demonstrated especially in hotels, hospitals, and old people’s homes.

As a supplier of batteryless radio sensor technology, EnOcean addresses this market segment by providing innovative radio sensor solutions that need no maintenance and work on the “energy harvesting” principle: easily and flexibly installed, the wireless sensors are self-powered by energy freely available in the ambient air without wasting ecologically harmful batteries.