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Perpetuum 2-2009 www.enocean.com perpetuum® Volume 6 Issue 02 | 2009 English ISSN 1862-0698 4.00 Euro / 5.60 $ / 4 GBP ENABLED BY ENOCEAN perpetuum® MAINTENANCE-FREE WIRELESS SWITCHES & SENSORS INTEROPERABILitY E N O C E A N AP I Revolutionary software concept: easy to use and flexible TEXT MESSAGE FROM A MOUSE Self-powered mouse trap sends a text message as soon as a mouse is caught MAKE WAY FOR LEED EnOcean technology contributes to LEED certification of the headquarters of Promutuel TECHNICAL SYMBIOSIS Themokon combines BACnet and EnOcean Advertisement 2 perpetuum 1 | 2009 EDITORIAL Dear readers, The term “smart grid“ cropped up in Wikipedia for the A number of members of the EnOcean Alliance are al- first time in September 2007. Today, just two years on, ready working on solutions aimed at transparency and Google already returns more than 11 million hits for cost control in buildings. Intelligent electricity meters in smart grid, making the term a real buzzword. Reason subdistribution will use wireless EnOcean to keep buil- enough to take a look at what‘s behind it. ding services management informed of consumption. In this way a complete picture of the status of a building In simple terms, smart grid means making power net- can be produced. It will also be possible to draw actua- works or grids intelligent for flexible response to supply tors into this to wirelessly and specifically ”control“ the and demand. Supply becomes flexible because power consumers. Here the socalled smart meter of the power not only comes from big central power stations but is supplier will be queried over the internet and integrated also fed into a grid by millions of photovoltaic installati- into the system. ons – with no possibility of central control. At the demand end the trend is towards electromobility. In other words, The Alliance continues to support these activities by in future there will be a requirement for recharging batte- standardizing communication between the electricity ries fast and anywhere – and this consumption needs to meter, the communication network of a building and the be billed correctly. Top of the list of the challenges to be actuators – by what are called EnOcean equipment pro- mastered is therefore billing, followed by load distributi- files (EEPs). The first version of these EEPs is due to be on, and management of peak consumption. published by the EnOcean Alliance in the next few weeks. Ensuring that devices from different manufacturers ope- A smart grid consists of the power network of the rate together seamlessly. Today already, more than 300 suppliers, who deliver to individual buildings, and are interoperable devices from more than 100 different thus connected through the network to the individual manufacturers worldwide are using the standard. Thus households. The connection between a power supplier seen, the smart grid is already in the buildings around and a household might be seen as a power internet. The us – with active support from the EnOcean Alliance. network within a house is comparable to the conventio- nal LAN or an intranet. Markus Brehler, CEO, EnOcean GmbH perpetuum 2 | 2009 3 CONTENTS TEXT MESSAGE FROM A MOUSE Self-powered mouse ENOCEAN API trap sends a text Revolutionary software concept: message as soon as a easy to use and flexible mouse is caught Editorial 03 Contents I Masthead 04 EnOcean roots 06 EnOcean Alliance roots 07 TECHNOLOGY Bank on the EnOcean API and not on your luck 08 EDK 300/300C – the simple entry to bidirectional, self-powered wireless 10 EnOcean modules 868 MHz 12 EnOcean modules 315 MHz 14 FSC-Mix-Forest.pdf 03.03.2009 13:42:26 BSC: Text message from a mouse 15 AISIS: Commanding catastrophes by smart wireless sensors 16 MASTHEAD Wireless maximizes energy efficiency in building automation 17 perpetuum – the innovative magazine for customers and partners of EnOcean GmbH EnOcean GmbH, Kolpingring 18a, 82041 Oberhaching, ENOCEAN ALLIANCE Germany, Overview of EnOcean Alliance members 18 Tel: +49.89.67 34 689-0, Fax: +49.89.67 34 689-50, [email protected], www.enocean.com Echoflex/Illumra: Hawaiian hotel counters rising cost of electricity Publisher EnOcean GmbH, Munich, Markus Brehler, CEO with innovative EnOcean technology 19 Editorial EnOcean GmbH, Are you still paying or already modernizing? 20 Andreas Schneider, Executive VP and Co-Founder, [email protected], Selmoni: TAC building management system and EnOcean 22 Slavica Simunovic, PR Manager, Regulvar: Energy-efficient climate control in industrial warehouse (IKEA) 24 [email protected] Kieback&Peter: Comfort and flexibility for Arnhem city council 25 Concept and design artcollin Kommunikationsdesign, www.artcollin.de Print RMO, Munich PEHA: Self-powered wireless technology casts off in port of Hamburg 26 Nibblewave: The intelligent retirement home 27 Photo credits www.fotolia.de: title (Timo Teifel) Omnio: Reliving tradition with modern technology 28 www.istockphoto.com: Regulvar: Make way for LEED 30 p3 (background), p8 (cookie, illustrated wave), p10, p15, p17, p22 (laptop), p23 (students), p24, p27 (senior), p44/45 (all), p46 (man & hall), p54 Produktgruppe aus vorbildlich bewirtschafteten Wäldern und www.photocase.com: p26 (harbour) anderen kontrollierten Herkünften BUS-House: p28/29 Zert.-Nr. GFA-COC-001662 Claudia Collin: p42/43 www.fsc.org ©1996 Forest Stewardship Council 4 perpetuum 2 | 2009 CONTENTS MAKE WAY FOR LEED THermokoN ComBINes BACNet AND ENOCEAN Technical symbiosis in building automation EnOcean technology contributes to LEED certification of the corporate headquar- ters of Canada‘s Promutuel Group. Thermokon: Technical symbiosis in building automation 32 Vicos: Dolphin-compatible platform for OEMs 34 IP controls: Keeping an eye on EnOcean wireless signals 35 Osram: Light management for maximum energy efficiency with batteryless remote control 36 Eltako spreads its wireless selection 38 Probare P30: Quality in EnOcean installations 40 Unotech combines DALI and EnOcean features 41 Leviton: Interview with Tom Leonard about “Title 24“ 42 Engineered Tax Services: Using EPACT to speed payback 44 steute: Cableless command device adds flexibility to industrial building automation 46 Copyright Reproduction permitted stating source “perpetuum NEWS & SERVICes international 02/2009, EnOcean GmbH” and with voucher copy Awards: One technology – several winners 48 International circulation 5,500 EnOcean software engineer wins young researcher award 50 Appearance semi-annual Reader service [email protected], EnOcean Alliance – it‘s all about speed! 50 phone +49.89.67 34 689 - 0 EnOcean: our new people 51 EnOcean®, easyfit® und perpetuum® are registered EnOcean goes social media 51 trademarks of EnOcean GmbH The “Haberjazzband” looks back on 30 years 52 Deutsche Nationalbibliothek has archived the electronic Successful roadshow in Switzerland 53 publication ”perpetuum international edition“, which is now permanently available on the archive server of Deutsche Events 53 Nationalbibliothek Distribution: EnOcean technology gathering speed in Spain 54 ISSN 1862-0698 Overview of EnOcean Distributors 55 perpetuum 1 I 2010 (German and English) will appear in March 2010 Editorial deadline: January 16th, 2010 perpetuum 2 | 2009 5 ENOCEAN | ROOTS THE ABC OF ENOCEAN EnOcean GmbH is the originator of patented self-powered wireless technology. Headquartered in Ober- haching near Munich, the company manufactures and markets maintenance-free wireless sensor solu- tions for use in buildings and industrial installations. EnOcean products are based on a combination of miniaturized energy converters, ultra-low-power electronic circuitry and reliable wireless. EnOcean wire- less components are already in use in more than 100,000 buildings. EnOcean won a number of awards in recent years, for example Elektra 2008: “Wireless & Telecoms Design” and “Company of the Year”. By Andreas Schneider, Executive VP and Co-Founder, EnOcean GmbH GreeN WireLess The innovative enabling technology from EnOcean works The EnOcean wireless signal uses the 868 MHz or 315 entirely without batteries, and is completely service-free. MHz frequency band, meaning the technology is suitable To detect information and then transmit it by short-range for solutions worldwide. Telegrams are just one millise- wireless, an EnOcean solution harvests the necessary cond in duration, and are transmitted at a rate of 125 power from its surroundings: from linear motion, light kilobits per second. To exclude transmission errors, a or differences in temperature for example. The energy telegram is repeated a number of times in the space of obtained in this way suffices to send a wireless signal, 30 milliseconds. Transmitting data packets in random in- and turn on a light for instance. Plus, the use of wireless tervals makes the probability of collision extremely small. switches and wireless sensors very much simplifies the The range of EnOcean wireless sensors is 300 meters cabling of a building. At the same time they make for a in the open and up to 30 meters inside buildings. Each great deal of flexibility because no new cabling is nee- EnOcean module comes with a unique 32-bit identifica- ded if alterations are due. With little effort and with no tion number to eliminate any possibility of overlap with breaking into walls, EnOcean-enabled products can be other wireless sensors. placed exactly where they are of optimum use. INTEROPERABLE WIRELESS STANDARD SMART There are already many manufacturers using EnOcean EnOcean is a system that optimally connects a number technology in their products. More than 100 OEM part- of components: wireless sensor networks, energy ma- ners in a variety of sectors have developed products nagement, software and sensor link. Each wireless node enabled by EnOcean technology. All of these products possesses its own local processor to capture measured are interoperable. So combining switches, gateways data, for instance, and control energy management or wi- and sensors from any OEMs is quite straightforward. reless transmission. EnOcean wireless modules always come with firmware set up so that no modifications are necessary. 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