EnOcean is synonymous with energy harvesting

EnOcean is primarily the proponent company offering energy harvesting techniques and commercial solutions in over 100,000 buildings. The technology dates back to early 1990s where Siemens originally conceived the technology and, with over a decade’s experience, the company has accumulated numerous patents that not only detail techniques, but extend to some fundamental applications, several of which are publicly available on their website (see enocean.com/en/productstechnology, courtesy of Graham Martin, Chairman, EnOcean Alliance). At Incisor, we also became privy to other numerous patents, which baffled us somewhat as to how ZigBee could possibly move forward with any energy harvesting solution whilst EnOcean had it so well-covered and protected. So, we caught up with Graham Martin, EnOcean’s Alliance Chairman who couldn’t publicly offer us any comment, although he did support his perspective on the issue with some comprehensive reference material.

(Source Incisor Wireless Magazine, August 2009)