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For many years wireless sensors for home automation lay in the wilderness until governments around the world began to mandate their use in smart meters. More than 75 million smart meters are now installed worldwide, and it is the beginning of meters talking to thermostats, room occupancy sensors and home networks. Indeed, initiatives are under way to install sensors ubiquitously in cities – one such project in Europe – “LivingPlanIT” – is installing almost 3 million sensors in the first wave of a “trial” in a new “test-city” in Portugal. Many wireless sensors will also need energy harvesters to enable twenty year lifetimes, overcoming lifetime limitations of conventional batteries. Those solutions are now being deployed.
This session covers the new wave of technologies and their progress to providing building control and automation, ultimately feeding it into the smart grid enabling far greater energy efficiency and many other benefits. We look at what you should expect to come, debate the path to get there and cover the unmet opportunities.
Moderator:
Raghu Das, CEO, IDTechEx
Speakers:
Nick Gayeski, Partner and Co-Founder, KGS Buildings, LLC
Ricardo Ferreira, Director, Living PlanIT, “1 city, 100 million sensors”
Nicholas Soldner, Staff Research Engineer, United Technologies Research Center
Jim OCallaghan, President, EnOcean Inc.
Skip Ashton, Vice President Engineering, Ember Corporation
Company Descriptions
KGS provides tools & talent to empower organizations to use data & information to make buildings better. We provide expert support on building engineering challenges, and software to enable intelligent asset management. As the cost continues to fall for collecting, analyzing and storing building transaction data, people will be able to manage their buildings in wholly new ways – using near real-time data to drive better decisions. KGS is at the technology forefront of that building management future.
Living PlanIT’s Sensor Network is a mission-critical solution set developed in conjunction with Living PlanIT’s technology partners. It forms the eyes, ears, and fingers of a complex control and information system that will facilitate broad, pervasive, and continuous use of sensor data and intelligence, making buildings and cities more efficient and environmentally sensitive.
The Sensor Network collects, triggers, and manages data feeds from multiple sources to provide the core knowledge used to manage urban environments which benefit residents, visitors, builders, operators and service providers alike.
The Sensor Network is primarily focused on:
- Being able to fit sensors in an urban landscape in order to obtain high quantities of data
- Being able to efficiently transmit this data to the UOS™
- Being able to take local action on real-time events as needed
United Technologies Research Center (UTRC) delivers the world’s most
advanced technologies, innovative thinking and disciplined research to
the businesses of United Technologies — industry leaders in aerospace
propulsion, building infrastructure and services, heating and air
conditioning, fire and security systems and power generation. Founded
in 1929, UTRC is located in East Hartford, Connecticut (U.S.) with an
office in Berkeley, California and research and development centers in
Shanghai, China, and Cork, Ireland.
EnOcean GmbH is the originator of patented self-powered wireless technology. Headquartered in Oberhaching near Munich, the company manufactures and markets maintenance-free wireless sensor solutions for use in buildings and industrial installations. EnOcean solutions
are based on miniaturized energy converters, ultra low-power electronic circuitry and reliable wireless. Combining these elements enables EnOcean and its product partners to offer sensor systems that are fundamental for energy-efficient buildings and innovativeindustry. Today wireless modules from EnOcean are chosen worldwide by
more than 100 manufacturers to enable their system ideas for buildingsand industry. Wireless components are already in use in over 200,000 buildings. EnOcean GmbH was founded in 2001 as a spin-off from Siemens AG. The company currently employs about 60 people in Germany and the USA.
Ember’s ZigBee networking systems – chips, software and tools – simplify the complexity of integrating embedded software, networking and RF for developing low-power wireless products in smart energy, connected home and other remote monitoring and control applications, enabling greener living and work environments.
There is significant momentum in Ember’s focus markets – The Connected Home, Smart Metering and Building Automation. Low power, wireless mesh networking technology is ideally suited to address the urgent need for energy demand management and conservation, coupled with people’s desire for more security, safety and comfort in buildings and homes. With a world class team, a mature and reliable technology, and best in class products, Ember is at the forefront and eager to lead the market into the future.