Wireless Building-Automation Controls Improve Energy Efficiency

The message is beginning to stick: Building-automation systems (BAS) offer a cure for facilities that do not use energy efficiently. While increased demand for energy and its diminishing supply have combined to force the word green into managers’ vocabularies, BAS have stepped in as a reliable remedy for reducing energy use and carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions.

Maintenance and engineering managers can significantly reduce the challenge of improving the energy efficiency of their facilities by using battery-free and wireless building-automation controls. A wireless standard from the EnOcean Alliance gives managers a simple, unparalleled means of spreading information throughout buildings, an essential element in reducing energy. The EnOcean Alliance, with 100 automation manufacturers, aims to promote sustainable buildings via battery-free, wireless controls.

Since these peel-and-stick automation controls — sensors, switches, and controllers — are wireless and battery-free, they free integrators from the installation and maintenance hurdles that historically have stalled or prohibited widespread adaptation of BAS in institutional and commercial facilities.

(Source www.facilitiesnet.com, 10.09.2009)