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Hubbell Building Automation Nixes Batteries with EnOcean Alliance
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April 22, 2013

Hubbell Building Automation Nixes Batteries with EnOcean Alliance

By Peter B. Counter
TMCnet Contributing Writer

It’s the greenest of green lighting control under (and excluding) the sun: occupancy sensors, switches and photocells that don’t require maintenance because they are wireless and don’t use batteries. Now that Hubbell Building Automation, a Texas-based subsidiary of Hubbell Incorporated, has joined the EnOcean Alliance, intuitive lighting is being married with wireless energy harvesting technology to save on maintenance costs and put an end to energy waste.


Hubbell Building Automation is bringing to the table state-of-the-art wireless lighting control. EnOcean, based in the German municipality of Oberhaching, provides the power source: energy harvested from local temperature and light. Together they provide a new low cost automated lighting solution.

The product line is called WiSTAR and it combines Hubbell’s lighting controls with EnOcean’s energy converters. The WiSTAR line, which will be shown off April 23 to 25, 2013 at LIGHTFAIR 2013 in Philadelphia, offers long-range communication between devices over the 902MHz frequency that EnOcean has just introduced to North American markets.

Take the WiSTAR wall sensor as an example; the device can be set up in minutes because it is literally wireless. There is no need to charge it or physically connect it to anything but the wall. It charges itself by harvesting solar power from the light that it controls, sensing when a room is occupied or empty, and acts accordingly, adjusting light sources within its range and communicating all of this information to other WiSTAR products.

Again: no batteries required. The entire line, from dimmer switches to key-card activated controls, right down to the switch module that allows table lamps to join the influence of WiSTAR, is able to harvest its own power with settings that allow energy conversion in low-light environments.

By incorporating the two technologies lifetime maintenance costs will be lowered. Batteryless is the word that means the most here. According to president of EnOcean Inc. Jim O’Callaghan: "This commitment affirms the adoption of energy harvesting wireless technology in the building automation market."




Edited by Rich Steeves


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