EnOcean Insights

Why it is Essential to Certify Your Product

Author: Armin Pelka, Certification Manager, EnOcean Alliance
Issue 02-2018: read all articles online read as pdf

Last year the EnOcean Alliance implemented a uniform Certification Program to ensure highest possible interoperability of all devices based on the EnOcean standard. It is an easy to use but powerful tool for labeling the reliability and high-quality of our members’ products. From July 1^st, 2018, the EnOcean Alliance product data base has only shown certified products by default to emphasize their importance for our ecosystem and the user benefits of certified devices.

As a member of the EnOcean Alliance, it is essential to certify your products. It is a quality seal of seamless communication and a key indicator for users to decide on an EnOcean-based solution. At the same time, you take full advantage of all EnOcean Alliance promotional activities for certified products, including the technology logo. Up to now, more than 600 products of our Promoter and Participant members have already been certified – and the number is increasing every day.

Two certification levels

Set up as a free-of-charge self-certification process, the steps needed to certify your product can be done without any additional development effort. There are two certification levels, depending on a product’s market availability:

Certification Level 2.0 applies only to legacy products available on the market up to December 2017. Unless they have already done so members can still easily certify their legacy products to this level. There is no cut-off date for Certification Level 2.0.

Certification Level 3.0 is mandatory for all newly developed products coming onto the market from 2018. It includes the additional Radio Performance Certification Specification to ensure high quality products with appropriate radio range in the field and also the Profile Certification to greatly enhance identifying potential interoperable products in the field to benefit the entire ecosystem. Additionally, it covers the Energy Harvesting Specification to ensure correct energy budget management and specification.

All steps of the certification process can be found at www.enocean-alliance.org/products/how-to-certify-a-product. Start to certify your product right now.