Smart Building EPBD 2018 – The European building directive has been amended. What now? The EU gets serious and tightens the thumbscrews: Buildings are to be CO2-neutral by 2050, and this is already leading to a number of stricter requirements in the coming years, ...
EnOcean Insights Rutronik gains EnOcean as a partner for wireless products Rutronik Elektronische Bauelemente GmbH is adding EnOcean's products to its wireless portfolio. Rutronik is the third-largest distributor in Europe and supplies semiconductors, passive and electromechanical components as well as boards, ...
EnOcean Insights For self-powered smart switches: “Battery-free by EnOcean“ seal The new "Battery-free by EnOcean" logo marks self-powered wireless switch solutions based on the EnOcean technology. It allows private users to readily identify the associated benefits: operation without batteries or ...
EnOcean Insights The heart of self-powered switches Wireless, batteryless, maintenance-free, flexible: These four words sum up the benefits of a radio-based switch that operates with EnOcean's energy harvesting technology. The PTM 21x switch module family from EnOcean ...
Smart Home Light and sound with a single click With Nuimo Click, Senic offers a wireless switch for easy and flexible control of Philips Hue lights and Sonos speakers. Integrating the energy harvesting technology from EnOcean, it can be ...
EnOcean Insights New products from the Zigbee world Smart home and building automation systems require reliable data sources using open protocols. Energy harvesting switches and sensors for Zigbee, Bluetooth and EnOcean radio protocol uniquely address these needs. EnOcean has ...
EnOcean Insights EnOcean’s sensor portfolio offers a whole lot more The EnOcean sensor portfolio is growing. New on board are the solar-operated EMDC PIR motion detector and a multisensor family, which both harvest energy from ambient light without any batteries ...
Smart Building Living smarter in rental homes: Deutsche Wohnen installs MIA in Berlin Everyone is talking about the smart home, not least because of Apple's HomeKit and Amazon's Alexa. But when it comes to rental homes, who benefits from the smart technology? Fifty-seven percent ...
Smart Building Building retrofit – smart sensors are the key The J G O’Donoghue Building in Edmonton is an enormous, three story, 262,500 square foot office building operated by the Province of Alberta. A $32 m retrofit project of the ...
Smart Home Smart Home Professional – What do customers expect from smart home solutions? Every day, a new manufacturer promises to deliver allegedly revolutionary smart home solutions. But do these promises really deserve the trust of a loyal clientele? Do the components in the ...