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EnOcean Alliance Validates UK Foothold with Major Building References (7/6/2010)

At its first London Open House Exhibition, the EnOcean Alliance announced the growing presence of self-powered wireless technology in the UK and revealed first time details of high profile residential, commercial and industrial building automation projects across the country. Member companies involved in the event included Beckhoff, Distech Controls, EnOcean, Leviton, MK Electric, Wago, Wieland and Thermokon.

At the Open House Exhibition EnOcean Alliance member companies demonstrated a diverse selection of energy saving products ranging from occupancy sensors, key cards, LED-dimmer systems, thermostats, window contacts and CO2 sensors. Furthermore, the world’s first solar energy free ventilation application for schools was showcased by Distech Controls. Utilising a unique combination of free ventilation and solar power, via a solar-powered radio sensor module from EnOcean, the Solar EnergyMax manages air supply and extraction in buildings. The internal fan unit has a D.C motor which is driven by either a solar photovoltaic cell or a dry cell battery to keep it constantly charged for operation through the night and enabled for up to three days without any form of light. The Solar EnergyMax system is currently rolling out to schools throughout the North and South of England.

Visitors were offered practical advice from member companies on how to simply and quickly save energy and carbon footprint in existing and new buildings. Using self-powered wireless switches and sensors enabled by the EnOcean standard building professionals can reduce planning, installation and rework time and costs - even retrofit without any disruption.

From a technology point of view EnOcean GmbH demonstrated the world’s first sensor modules based on its bi-directional and energy autonomous Dolphin platform. The Dolphin platform enables sensors to communicate in two directions, resulting in a sensor network dialogue that facilitates entirely new possibilities in building automation and a variety of other processes.

Several new reference projects in UK

During the event Nick Clark of Client Support Services UK, Mark Davenport of Distech Controls and Graham Martin of the EnOcean Alliance presented on the market opportunity for intelligent automation technology, highlighting Barclays Bank, O2 Headquarters, Scottish and Southern Energy (SEE), GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) amongst the many successful UK references.

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