EnOcean Alliance

Ottawa, Canada – October 18, 2012

The Continental Automated Buildings Association is pleased to have recently become a participant member of the EnOcean Alliance. With this step, the two organizations have also signed a memorandum of understanding. The objective of the agreement is to share information and work in a collaborative manner on intelligent building and connected home technologies issues to further the development of the market throughout the world.

The EnOcean Alliance is dedicated to energy harvesting wireless automation solutions for sustainable buildings. Its more than 300 members integrate the innovative EnOcean technology in their products and systems to make buildings more energy-efficient, more flexible and lower in cost.

CABA is an international trade organization dedicated to advancing technology and integrated systems in home and buildings, along with creating opportunities for its members' business activities and serving as a preferred global source of information, knowledge and networking for key industry stakeholders.

As part of the agreement, CABA will establish collaborative activities with the Alliance to engage a broad array of stakeholders including the utility industry, regulatory agencies, energy, building automation, telecommunications, controls and information technology vendors, technology companies, consumer groups, government and nongovernmental organizations.

"CABA is very pleased to be partnering with EnOcean Alliance. This forward-thinking memorandum of understanding will set in motion a chain reaction that will accelerate the application of intelligent building and connected home technologies," stated Ronald J. Zimmer, CABA President & CEO.

"I am very excited that CABA is now a member of the EnOcean Alliance and that we have entered into this agreement of collaboration," said Graham Martin, Chairman of EnOcean Alliance. " It will allow acceleration of our joint pursuit to enhance the development and deployment of innovative building automation technology worldwide."

About CABA

The Continental Automated Buildings Association (CABA) is a leading industry association that promotes advanced technologies in homes and buildings in North America. More information is available at www.caba.org.

About EnOcean Alliance

Leading companies worldwide from the building sector collected to form the EnOcean Alliance and establish innovative automation solutions for sustainable building projects – and so to make buildings more energy-efficient, more flexible and lower in cost. The core technology of the Alliance is energy harvesting wireless technology for flexibly positioned and service-free sensor solutions. The EnOcean Alliance aims to internationalize the energy harvesting wireless technology, and is dedicated to creating interoperability between the products of OEM partners. Basis for this is the international standard ISO/IEC 14543-3-10, which is optimized for wireless solutions with ultra-low power consumption and energy harvesting. 300 companies currently belong to the EnOcean Alliance. The headquarters of the non-profit organization is located in San Ramon, California.