Th Enocean effect

[Gareth Cook <g@xxxxxxxxxx>]

http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=207100239

04/08/2008 4:52 AM EDT)

MUNICH, Germany; ? At the Light & Building trade fair in Frankfurt, a
group of home automation solution providers has launched the Enocean
Alliance to foster the homonymous radio technology provided by startup
company Enocean GmbH. The group standardizes on the Enocean physical
layer, enabling interoperability between applications.
Members of the alliance are, among others, Honeywell subsidiary MK
Electric (Basildon, UK), Distech Controls (Quebec, Canada), Masco (Taylor,
USA), Omnio AG (Lufingen, Switzerland), and Thermokon Sensortech
(Mittenaar, Germany). Also Siemens and Osram have joined the group.

The alliance plans to develop and market a broad spectrum of interoperable
products targeting at measurement and control applications related to
building and home automation. The scope of the group's efforts will
include establishing the proprietary Enocean radio technology as an
international standard as well as developing sensor profiles and marketing
of related solutions.

Enocean's self-powered radio technology uses the 860 MHZ ISM band. The
devices feature a self-learning address scheme similar to the one used in
DECT phones to integrate them into a network with up to 4200 devices
connected to one node. The data interchange is implemented by datagrams
with a duration of maximum 500 microseconds.


Gareth Cook
Technical Solution Architect, SWG Sales Europe








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