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日本語 Energy Management and Building Controls Specialist Autani, LLC Joins EnOcean Alliance
Autani integrates wireless building controls with wireless, self-powered EnOcean devices for flexible, easy-to-install, low-maintenance energy management systems
Columbia, MD
Autani, LLC, a proven leader in building controls, has become a member of the EnOcean Alliance. Autani incorporates a variety of EnOcean-based lighting and HVAC-focused devices into their EnergyCenter building control system, an energy management platform that combines lighting, HVAC, metering, refrigeration, and sensor applications into a single, integrated system.
A complement to Autani’s wireless product offering, EnOcean-enabled sensors and controls provide further wireless capabilities and add the benefit of being self-powered. Subsequently, there are no wires to run or batteries to replace, reducing installation time and the need for on-going maintenance. The EnOcean energy harvesting wireless standard is an effective means for Autani to further its ability to provide easy-to-use tools for reducing and optimizing energy use.
“Incorporating EnOcean wireless devices into Autani’s EnergyCenter system is an ideal pairing,” said Randy Clayton, President & Chief Technology Officer for Autani. “We are able to provide customers with even greater flexibility, convenience, and savings when installing their energy management systems, and the range of devices available from Alliance members dramatically expands our ability to address customer needs.”
“We are proud and excited to welcome Autani as a new member of the EnOcean Alliance. As one of the leading providers of energy management and building controls, integrating the EnOcean wireless standard is a significant market signal. Our ecosystem will benefit greatly from the addition of Autani to help accelerate the adoption of sustainable building automation to create more energy-efficient, flexible, and low-cost smart buildings,” says Graham Martin, Chairman of the EnOcean Alliance.
About Autani, LLC
Autani, LLC (www.autani.com) is a Building Automation Provider with a proven track record of reducing energy consumption. At the core of our product offering is EnergyCenter, a building management platform that connects Lighting, Metering, HVAC, Refrigeration and Sensors to control, monitor and verify energy consumption through a single, powerful system with either wireless or wired connectivity. Autani’s building IoT platform, Enterprise, complements EnergyCenter to provide data warehousing and visualization capabilities for connected sensors and control points. For existing and new properties of nearly any size, Autani’s easy-to-understand energy dashboard and EnergyCenter software validate how much, where, and when energy is being saved at all times. Founded in 2006 and based in Columbia, MD, Autani designs and manufactures all of its energy management solutions in the USA.
About the 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 internationalise 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 14543-3-1X, which is optimised for wireless solutions with ultra-low power consumption and energy harvesting. Nearly 400 companies currently belong to the EnOcean Alliance. The headquarters of the non-profit organisation is located in San Ramon, California.
Press Contacts
Carol Magosky
Molex
T +1-630-408-9164
E Carol.Magosky@molex.com
Valerie Harding
Ripple Effect Communications
T +1-617-536-8887
E valerie@rippleeffectpr.com
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Molex Joins EnOcean Alliance
Brings PoE Lighting Expertise to Sustainable Wireless Building Automation Group
San Ramon, CA – March 31, 2016
-Molex has joined the EnOcean Alliance and will integrate the EnOcean energy harvesting technology into the Molex Transcend® Network Connected Lighting system. The EnOcean Alliance is sponsored by EnOcean GmbH, inventor of the patented energy harvest wireless technology for use in building automation, smart home applications and the Internet of Things.
“The Transcend lighting solution integrates next-generation technology from several manufacturers and the integration of EnOcean energy harvesting technology will make our system stronger and more adaptable,” said Giovanni Frezza, group product manager, Molex. “The EnOcean standard combines field-proven wireless technology with the sustainable principle of energy harvesting. As part of the innovative EnOcean ecosystem, we now can offer our customers this industry-leading solution. The ability to add EnOcean devices into Transcend Ethernet-based network connected infrastructure offers new possibilities for efficient smart building implementations.”
According to Frezza, the EnOcean energy harvesting standard aligns well with the intelligent, low-voltage Transcend system, which both powers and controls LED light fixtures and other devices, providing an array of applications that enable the digital ceiling and smart building convergence over IP.
“We are delighted that Molex has joined the alliance,” said Graham Martin, chairman of the EnOcean Alliance. “Our ecosystem will benefit greatly from the addition of Molex, with its extensive knowledge of PoE lighting. As the Smart Building concept grows, the EnOcean Alliance will help accelerate its adoption.”
Nearly 400 companies worldwide are members of the EnOcean Alliance. They offer over 1,500 interoperable products based on the EnOcean wireless standard for energy-efficient, resource-saving buildings. The companies develop and market quality-based automation and control systems integrating the EnOcean energy harvesting wireless standard. The technology enables control products with the highest flexibility, reliable performance and the unique advantage of a green technology that can eliminate hazardous battery waste.
For more information about Transcend Network Connected Lighting from Molex, please visitwww.transcendled.com.
About Molex
Molex brings together innovation and technology to deliver electronic solutions to customers worldwide. With a presence in more than 40 countries, Molex offers a full suite of solutions and services for many markets, including data communications, consumer electronics, industrial, automotive, commercial vehicle and medical. For more information, please visit www.molex.com.
About the 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 internationalise 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 14543-3-1X, which is optimised for wireless solutions with ultra-low power consumption and energy harvesting. Nearly 400 companies currently belong to the EnOcean Alliance. The headquarters of the non-profit organisation is located in San Ramon, California.
Press Contacts
Carol Magosky
Molex
T +1-630-408-9164
E Carol.Magosky@molex.com
Valerie Harding
Ripple Effect Communications
T +1-617-536-8887
E valerie@rippleeffectpr.com
- Published in Press Releases
EnOcean Alliance at AHR Expo 2016: The Self-Powered Wireless Standard for Building Automation
Seamless integration of battery-less sensors and switches with local controllers, gateways, and building management systems build a network for integrated control, meeting individual requirements
San Ramon, CA/Orlando, FL – January 11, 2016
At AHR Expo 2016 (Orange County Convention Center, Orlando, January 25-27), the EnOcean Alliance will show the possibilities of the interoperable EnOcean ecosystem for integrated building control. The ecosystem wall – shown at booth 1247 – will represent a complete automation system based on the EnOcean energy harvesting wireless standard. It will include all necessary components for intelligent HVAC and lighting control as well as energy management. The solutions presented offer maximum flexibility based on maintenance-free wireless devices, which are powered by their surrounding environment. Due to EnOcean Alliance’s open approach to interoperability, users can combine products from different vendors seamlessly.
Intelligent building control calls for solutions that can be flexibly adapted to individual project requirements. Breaking down the barriers of isolated applications, the interoperable EnOcean Alliance ecosystem of more than 400 member companies and over 1,500 products offer integrated systems that connect several building applications and control them depending on the current situation.
Due to strong partnerships with leading organizations of the wireless industry, such as theZigBee Alliance, the AllSeen Alliance or the Open Interconnect Consortium, the EnOcean Alliance opens the world of energy harvesting wireless communication to an interoperable, worldwide Internet of Things (IoT).
“The key advantages of wireless control are the ease of upgrading existing buildings and expanding a system at any time. No new control wiring is required for existing systems; they simply are upgraded with wireless control units. Wireless control systems can even provide greater installation flexibility if units within the system do not require dedicated cabling or batteries for power,” says Graham Martin, Chairman of the EnOcean Alliance.
At AHR Expo, the EnOcean Alliance will show an integrated building system covering the following areas:
Self-Powered Switches and Sensors
Intelligent lighting control can be covered on the basis of three main wireless components: kinetic-powered light switches, including dimmers, solar-powered light sensors, and solar-powered occupancy sensors.
This system can additionally support a wireless daylight harvesting application, which is a lighting controls system that automatically adapts the light level to the amount of available natural light in a room measured by light level sensors. In a typical commercial building with such an automated lighting control system, it is possible to reduce energy consumption by up to 30%.
Wireless sensors can also lay the foundation for energy savings, increased comfort, and healthier living through automated HVAC control. Self-powered temperature, gas, and climate sensors combined with hydronic heating valves form a wireless network that supplies heat or cool air depending on individual needs and behavior or when room conditions need to be adapted to predefined set points.
Gateways and Local Controllers
The approach of seamlessly integrating the control of different building areas can be realized with gateways and local controllers. These directly communicate with the self-powered wireless devices and with each other to process the delivered data and information for a synchronized building management system. This results in better energy efficiency while increasing comfort and security at the same time.
Building Management Systems
These same gateways can also bridge the EnOcean standard to work with other established protocols such as BACnet, LonMark, WiFi, ZigBee, or the cloud. This provides maximum flexibility to installing professionals to expand and adapt building automation systems based on other protocols at any time with wireless components and to centrally control the whole system.
More details on the self-powered wireless solutions shown at the EnOcean Alliance booth 1247 can be found at enocean-alliance.org/en/products
Building Management Systems
Visitors to AHR Expo 2016 can experience energy harvesting wireless solutions from over 15 EnOcean Alliance members, including the following exhibitors:
Caleffi (1857), Delta Controls (1021), Distech Controls (1242), Dwyer Instruments (1617), KMC Controls (1219), LonMark International (1337), Neptronic (1613), Reliable Controls (1050), Schneider Electric (1404), Spartan Peripheral Devices (1426), Thermokon (1011), Viconics Technologies (1035), WAGO (1708), Titus (2013) and Siemens Building Technologies (1829).
About the 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 internationalise 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 14543-3-1X, which is optimised for wireless solutions with ultra-low power consumption and energy harvesting. Nearly 400 companies currently belong to the EnOcean Alliance. The headquarters of the non-profit organisation is located in San Ramon, California.
Press Contacts
Angelika Dester
EnOcean Alliance
T +49.89.6734689-57
E angelika.dester@enocean-alliance.org
Valerie Harding
Ripple Effect Communications
T +1-617-536-8887
E valerie@rippleeffectpr.com
- Published in Press Releases
