Sensors to the cloud – succesful IoT collaborations
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There is a rapid development of intelligent buildings and soon these will be able to integrate IoT devices indepentently, generate a large amount of reliable data and use this information for building optimization. The basis for this are EnOcean based sensors and devices, which operate large numbers of IoT devices efficiently and supply reliable data to IoT systems.
By providing self-powered sensors, EnOcean and the EnOcean Alliance are supporting IBM, a strong partner with many years of experience in cloud-based services and IoT, to develop cognitive buildings.
EnOcean and IBM: Self-powered sensors for cloudbased IoT-applications
EnOcean is working closely with IBM to further develop maintenance-free wireless solutions for the Internet of Things with the EnOcean Sub 1 GHz radio standard. EnOcean is proud to be one of the first IBM Business Partners to use the mark “Ready for IBM Watson IoT”.
Together with IBM´s Watson IoT Platform, a fully managed, cloud-hosted service, selfpowered EnOcean-based sensors enable maintenance-free real estate managementsolutions to improve the operating, financial and environmental performance of plants and facilities. Standardized sensor profiles ensure the interoperability of more than 1,500 products from the EnOcean ecosystem and enable the development of interoperable system solutions. These solutions can be used in various cases from asset management, ambient assisted living projects, insurance or hotel and campus projects, giving maintenance-free wireless switches and sensors based on EnOcean technology.
EnOcean Alliance and IBM: Development of open standards for maintenance-free wireless solutions for usage in cognitive buildings
The EnOcean Alliance has strengthened its programme in building automation and the Internet of Things with IBM supporting the EnOcean Alliance as a Promoter Member. Together, IBM and the EnOcean Alliance will bring sensors to the cloud and develop selfpowered solutions as a standard for the Internet of Things.
The EnOcean Alliance offers the benefit of a broad, proven ecosystem of interoperable energy harvesting wireless sensor solutions, which are available for intelligent buildings worldwide. These solutions help optimize the utilization of buildings, create new service models and make buildings more flexible, more energy-efficient and altogether more cost-effective.
In close collaboration, the EnOcean Alliance and IBM define and expand standards for self-powered solutions for the IoT. Together, both partners standardize the EnOcean to IP interface and simplify the usage of applications in the IoT. This, for example, allows the integration of energy-harvesting wireless technology into the IBM Watson IoT Platform to conduct predictive and real-time analysis of facilities. For further information, please also read the article “Cognitive buildings” by IBM.
As a thought leader in the field of self-powered applications for the Internet of Things, EnOcean, together with the EnOcean Alliance, will continue the successful cooperation with IBM to enable the development of exciting, future-oriented, maintenancefree applications for the Internet of Things.
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