EnOcean
EnOcean GmbH is a spin-off company of Siemens AG founded in 2001. It is a German company headquartered in Oberhaching, near Munich. Venture capital firms as Wellington Partners, 3i, SAM Private Equity, enjoyventure Management, Siemens Venture Capital, and BayTech Venture Capital provide financing. It currently employs 25 staff.
Technology
The company has developed a completely novel technology that is based on the efficient exploitation of slightest changes in the environmental energy. In order to transform such energy fluctuations into usable electrical energy, piezogenerators, solar cells, thermocouples, and other energy converters are used. The company’s products are battery-less and wireless radio sensors and radio switches that need no maintenance during their whole lifetime. The signals of these sensors and switches can be transmitted across a distance up to 300 metres.
All switch signals or the information gathered by the sensors are transmitted with utmost reliability – unwanted interference with other signals can be completely excluded.
EnOcean products are already used for example in building automation, in automotive industry (replacement of the conventional battery in tyre pressure sensors), and in logistics.
The company was awarded the Bavarian Innovation Prize 2002 in June of that year for its globally unique technology.