EnOcean Alliance and IBM Join Forces to Standardize Intelligent Building Solutions

EnOcean Alliance and IBM Join Forces to Standardize Intelligent Buildings

December 4, 2016

The EnOcean Alliance has significantly expanded and strengthened its program in building automation and the Internet of Things (IoT), with IBM supporting the EnOcean Alliance as a promoter member.

The EnOcean Alliance is a consortium of more than 400 companies that standardize and develop intelligent building solutions integrating energy harvesting wireless technology. Together, IBM and the EnOcean Alliance will bring sensors to the cloud and develop self-powered solutions as an IoT standard.

EnOcean-based sensors and devices operate large numbers of IoT devices and supply data to IoT systems. Furthermore, the EnOcean Alliance offers a broad, proven ecosystem of interoperable energy harvesting wireless sensor solutions, which are available for intelligent buildings worldwide. These solutions help optimize the building use, create new service models, and make buildings more flexible, energy-efficient and cost-effective.

EnOcean Alliance and IBM 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. 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.

One recent example of this partnership is the development of a certified kit, “Intelligent Building — Self-powered IoT Solution” with batteryless EnOcean-based wireless sensors. Enocean, IBM, Digital Concepts and element14 partnered on the kit.

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