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Ivory Egg and EnOcean Alliance show Alex Haw's Lighthive installation at 100% Detail (13/8/2008)

Ivory Egg together with EnOcean Alliance have pulled off a major coup in bringing Alex Haw's amazing Lighthive installation to their stand at 100% Detail, the leading the UK's premier contemporary interiors event at Earls Court, London.

First shown at the Architectural Association, the installation conceived and designed by Alex Haw is a gigantic lighthouse made up of hundreds of bespoke LED's that was all made possible through the use of EnOceans innovative wireless sensor technology. At the show, Ivory Eggs stand will be laced with a range of EnOcean's energy harvesting wireless sensor technology. Sensors ranging from door contacts to seat sensors, infra-red detectors to IP cameras when triggered will send a signal to individual receivers / dimmers, activating one or more of the bespoke LED's o f the luminous sky, filling the stand with light.

Quoting Colin Price, Director of Ivory Egg "I'm really excited that we managed to pull this off. Alex's installation gives us the opportunity to show off the capabilities of EnOceans sensor technology, should be an amazing sight."

About Enocean Products

Five years in development EnOcean technology is green, smart and wireless. Using tiny amounts of energy 'harvested' from light, movement or even changes in temperature, transmitters convert this energy into short radio messages that provide commands to receivers to control lighting, blinds, heating or air conditioning without the need for cabling.

Why is it innovative? Wireless, battery- and maintenance-free switch. It uses harvested energy from solar, mechanical and thermal sources to power sensors within a building. A switch harnesses the energy created from pressing it to control lighting or blinds. A room thermostat uses solar energy to transmit its readings to HVAC systems.

This ground-breaking technology creates energy seemingly from nothing; the slightest change in pressure, the smallest change in temperature is enough to generate power for ultra efficient sensors to measure and then transmit their results.

How is it used?

The Enocean switch can be used wherever there is a need to control lighting, blinds, shutters, heating and air conditioning. This is a brilliant little device that takes the headache out of wiring or rewiring buildings.

At a retail price of as little as £90 for a switch and actuator, EnOcean can be fixed near anything that needs to be turned on and off, for example lighting and lowering or raising blinds. As the switches do not need any box in teh wall, it can even be placed on glass walls.

Given that no cabling is required, the device allows for great flexibility and is particularly useful in situations where no allowance has been made for lighting switches. Enocean dramatically cuts down on wiring and maintenance costs.

The technology took five years to develop and works on the basis that when the switch is pressed, a radio telegram is immediately sent to a receiver which may be used to turn lights on or off or even dim them up or down.

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