THE GREEN OFFICE
R SUSTAINABLE BUILDINGS
Graham Martin, Founder of the EnOcean Alliance
WHY ENOCEAN TECHNOLOGY? as noise and dirt
EnOcean and its partners have caused by pulling out
managed to deliver and prove 10,000s of cables or drilling
successful installations owing to their through walls.
dedication to talking and listening to the
requirements, fears, opportunities and No Batteries
challenges of building professionals. They EnOcean Alliance
have spent the last few years providing partners believe there
innovative, effective solutions for is no need for a cluster
sustainable buildings that solve real of battery operated
challenges and that are optimised for the systems in and around
task in hand. This has been achieved homes and buildings
under the motto: when this can be
easily avoided utilising
Graham Martin
No Wires battery-free wireless
Across the world there is now an radio technology. Batteries need changing environment. This harvested energy is
awareness and acceptance of the necessity every few months to few years. Empty used for transmitting sensor information
to reduce the amount of energy usage in batteries can cause system failures, over a distance of up to 30 meters within
buildings, which accounts for around 40% frustrations and even danger not to a building.
of total energy in the EU. To achieve this mention the environmentally unfriendly
goal it is necessary to be able to monitor issue of battery disposal. In a commercial No Limits
and control individual rooms or areas building with many thousands of nodes it Having virtually no restrictions on
within buildings to establish occupancy is stressful just thinking about this where the sensors or switches can be
status, temperature and humidity, status of responsibility let alone the cost of actually mounted provides the user with an almost
windows and doors, and light intensity performing the task of regular battery unlimited flexibility not only in initial
(sunlight and electric light), for example. maintenance. Batteries may be initially placement but also during renovation,
The only effective way to achieve this is to cheap but maintaining and replacing from the simple movement of some
implement low power wireless monitoring them just isn’t. EnOcean sensors are furniture to a complete refurbishment.
and control, which is ideal for both new powered by energy drawn from
buildings and retrofits, saving miles of movement, light or even changes in THE BENEFITS OF ENOCEAN
cables, installation time and cost, as well temperature in their surrounding ALLIANCE
The EnOcean Alliance offers many
advantages to architects, systems
integrators, planners, facility managers
and building owners. The use of future-
oriented EnOcean technology means
unlimited flexibility allowing simple,
speedy and cost-attractive adaptation to
changing requirements. Building
professionals profit from the availability of
a broad, interoperable selection of
products to combine in any way. For
example, lighting control on demand and
regulation of the temperature in single
rooms, enabled by EnOcean technology,
results in large energy and cost savings.
The EnOcean Alliance is and will
continue to be the long-term winner for
creating a more comfortable, safer, cost
and energy efficient world through
intelligent self-powered wireless building
and industrial control systems.
For further information on the
EnOcean Alliance please visit
www.enocean-alliance.org
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