Gas Sending Solutions (GSS) will showcase the world’s lowest power CO2 gas sensor at ISH 2011, an international trade fair. The COZIR sensor employs EnOcean’s self-powered wireless technology.

GSS has been working with the EnOcean Alliance as well as other member companies to integrate the EnOcean Standard in its product portfolio. The sensor works without batteries and is maintenance-free. It also has very low-power consumption and a fast warm-up time of less than two seconds, making it ideal for applications such as indoor air quality monitoring, heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems, plus horticultural and building control.

EnOcean’s energy harvesting technology draws ambient energy from motion, light or temperature differences in its surroundings. Using available room light to power the CO2 sensor, three readings are taken every 10 minutes and the values are sent wirelessly to a receiver. When no room light is available, the sensor operates on stored energy in energy storage mode, taking fewer measurements or only sending signals when critical values are measured. In this way EnOcean-enabled devices can work fully autonomously, at low cost.