Swimming with Dolphins: How EnOcean's new energy harvesting platform will keep wireless afloat

I received an email a week or so ago from the EnOcean Alliance, inviting me to its first open house exhibition in London. The exhibition was staged to showcase the continuing success and growth of EnOcean technology, drawing on the fact that the technology has already been successfully deployed in over 100.000 buildings across the world. Furthermore, EnOcean boasts several prominent British companies as part of its alliance, namely Barclays Bank, O2 and Scottish & Southern Energy. The star of the great event, however, was undoubtedly EnOcean's all new wireless sensor network and software development kit, he Dolphin Platform.[...]

I am confident that EnOcean will continue to evolve its successful Dolphin platform. The second generation offering boasts new features, as well as bi-directional communication, in turn, supporting an efficient eco-system. Clearly, EnOcean is completely aware of the trade-offs that may come about in evolving a technology which ultimately bodes well for future generations. In the meantime, EnOcean claims it will remain the pivotal leader in energy autonomous wireless communication. So, ultimately, where is ZigBee? I guess, trying to keep a batterypowered technology afloat in a new ecofriendly world … sounds to me a lot like swimming with sharks!

(Source Incisor Magazine, June 2010)