EnOcean - Integrated Approach for Energy Harvesting Wireless

After graduating in electrical engineering - with a focus on information and communication technology - at Karlsruhe University, Armin Anders spent a number of years as marketing manager for microcontrollers at Siemens AG. He then worked as a project manager for Siemens Corporate Technology, spent an interim period as assistant to the central executive, and then joined Siemens Technology Accelerator GmbH as a venture manager responsible for startups.

 

Armin Anders is one of the five EnOcean founders and drew up the business plan for the company.

The EnOcean Alliance is a consortium of around 100 innovative international companies working to further develop and promote self-powered wireless monitoring and control systems for sustainable buildings by formalising the interoperable wireless standard. The EnOcean Alliance has the largest installed base of field-proven wireless building automation networks in the world. EnOcean GmbH is the innovator and producer of the award-winning and widely patented battery-free wireless sensor technology. EnOcean's unique combination of miniaturized energy harvesting modules with ultra-low-power radio technology is the basis for innovative maintenance-free wireless sensors.