ENERGY
ATION FOR MAXIMUM FLEXIBILITY
flexibility – no wires needed – to install
echo switches at each vacuum outlet. Each
switch was then ‘aligned’ to a contactor
acting as an isolation switch for the
vacuum system, enabling the cleaner to
turn the system on or off from the outlet
that was being used.
CCPD’s Niall Wood, who initially
came up with the idea, said: “Installing
the echo switches was a five minute job
because there was no need to hard wire.
We simply stuck the switches to the wall by
the outlets and there was no need to move
people, desks or office furniture. It was all
very unintrusive.
“Now the cleaning staff can activate
the vacuum from wherever they may be.
The echo switches simply ‘talk’ to the
contactor via its RF receiver and because
there’s no hard wiring, it was an easy
retrofit project,” he continued.
MK Electric’s echo range of ‘self
powered’ switches means no wires, no
batteries and no fuss. Echo is radically
revising the way switching is treated within
commercial spaces; and is delivering a
host of benefits to the specifier, installer different surroundings. Whether in homes, contacts and window handles. All products
and facilities manager. Echo switches are offices, schools, museums or other enabled by EnOcean technology are
low maintenance, sustainable and highly buildings, EnOcean sensors provide the entirely interoperable.
accessible; they represent a new precise metrics necessary to regulate Products and systems incorporating
generation of switching devices and help optimal light, heating or ventilation. The EnOcean technology easily integrate into
take the company’s renowned strength of wireless sensors can be installed exactly common building automation systems —
product depth, quality and service to a where they are needed. regardless of whether these communicate
new level. EnOcean OEM partners have created by LON, KNX, BACnet, TCP/IP or Ethernet.
350 different products for applications Sustainable energy management concepts
A TECHNOLOGY FOR EVERY NEED ranging from room thermostats with can therefore be implemented with very
Self-powered wireless modules from preset temperature through to little effort or outlay.
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EnOcean are suitable for use in many maintenance-free wireless window
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