www.enocean.com perpetuum® Volume 8 Issue 02 | 2011 English ISSN 1862-0698 4.00 Euro / 5.60 $ / 4 GBP ENGLISH ENABLED BY ENOCEAN perpetuum® MAINTENANCE-FREE WIRELESS SWITCHES & SENSORS ANNIVERSARY 10 YEARS OF ENOCEAN – 10 years of innovation ISSUE NEW PROMOTER BSC Computer becomes a promoter of the EnOcean Alliance SIEMENS Effi cient building management with EnOcean technology in highest building in Italy G E Enhanced energy effi ciency and consumer convenience with batteryfree HabiTEQ system from GE 20112 Advertisement > thanos® – High-End Finish in Function and Design The premium room operating unit by Thermokon makes the future of building automation obvious: intuitive operation, exceptional design and customized functionality. » Control of automated HVAC applications by simple touch » Integrated temperature detection » EasySens® – for wireless communication, bidirectional (compatible with EnOcean) » Feasible for LON, BACnet, Modbus or KNX connection » Customized labelling of operating buttons » Remote control Thermokon Sensortechnik GmbH Phone: +49(0)2772/6501-0,
[email protected] » www.thermokon.de Keep in touch with the future Anz_TK_thanos_180x255_EN.indd 1 04.07.11 11:42 EDITORIAL Dear readers, Ten years ago we – Markus Brehler, Frank Schmidt, increasing at more than nine percent annually which puts Armin Anders, Oliver Sczesny and Andreas Schneider – an insupportable burden on the consumption of fossil founded EnOcean with the aid of the Siemens Technology fuels. The government is trying different ways to remedy Accelerator. Since then, we have been harvesting the this by introducing an energy efficiency act, for example. power available in our surroundings, to realise mainte- nance-free wireless switches and sensors. Meanwhile, We think this combination of growth and pressure for EnOcean’s batteryless wireless technology has estab- energy efficiency presents good opportunities for the lished itself as a wireless standard for sustainable build- EnOcean eco-system and EnOcean-enabled products.