How EnOcean Self Powered Battery Free Devices Enable the Internet of Things (Energy Harvesting & Storage USA 2015)

Several studies are predicting up to a Trillion IoT enabled sensors in 2030. All those sensors must be connected. Given the enormous quantity of smart sensors and devices it seems impossible to wire them or to battery-power wireless sensors. This speech will explore energy harvesting options for wireless sensors.

Oliver Sczesny graduated in electrical engineering at the University of Applied Science in Würzburg-Schweinfurt in 1993. He started his career at Siemens AG, Corporate Research and Development Division in Munich. He worked in several disciplines focusing on wireless sensor applications and wireless remote interrogation of passive sensors, such as passive surface acoustic wave sensors and ID-Tags for RF ID systems. Oliver then was a co-inventor of the fundamental principles of energy harvesting wireless sensor technology for use in buildings and industrial installations. He left Siemens as a Senior Engineer and together with four other colleagues co-founded EnOcean in 2001. Oliver is living in Salt Lake City, UT since 2011, where he is heading up EnOcean Inc. North American Engineering team and the World Wide Application Engineering Team.

EnOcean GmbH is the developer of the patented energy harvesting wireless technology marketed under the Dolphin brand. Headquartered in Oberhaching, near Munich, the company produces and markets maintenance-free wireless sensor solutions for batteryless applications in the Internet of Things, which are used for building and industrial automation, smart homes and LED light control. The EnOcean products are based on miniaturized energy converters, energy-efficient electronics and reliable wireless technology for a variety of standards. Leading product manufacturers have been relying on EnOcean wireless modules for their system solutions for the past 15 years and have installed the products in several hundreds of thousands of buildings around the world.