195 countries have adopted the first-ever legally binding climate deal in Paris. Governments will demand tighter regulations and standards with the goal to limit global warming, to reduce the CO2 emissions, and to optimize the energy consumption.
This is influencing the building automation market and related technologies. Intelligent energy-saving systems are becoming more popular. Therefore they can be produced more cost effectively and are arousing more interest with the consumers.
Conservatively wired systems and wireless systems are being merged with the target to achieve 100% interconnectivity. The total building automation market is expected to reach approx. $55 billion by 2020, coming from approx. $30 billion in 2013.
New city concepts such as the Fujisawa Sustainable Smart Town (Fujisawa SST) may change our life and environment in the future. Panasonic’s full range from energy solutions to advanced components are already being used there. Panasonic Electric Works offers a huge number of components especially designed for smart-home and smart-grid applications and is continuously expanding the product portfolio, including but not limited to connectors, PIR sensors, switches, semiconductor and electromechanical relays.
Panasonic Electric Works is expert in developing next-generation components like the EP relay for switching DC loads up to 300A DC. Another example is the solid-state relay AQV258HA for applications up to 1500V DC, which can be used in Battery Management Systems (BMS) for monitoring the insulation between high voltage/low voltage and GND. Such products enable our customers to create smart-grid solutions on the highest quality level.
On the other hand the building automation market is growing continuously. Smart homes are becoming more and more popular mainly driven by the Internet of Things trend. Smart things are designed to support humans in a comfortable way. For this purpose, they have to collect data, do intelligent analysis, control actuators or other devices, and have to communicate the status back to the user. Panasonic Electric Works is offering a large amount of connectors, from board-to-board to flexible-printed-circuit connectors (FPC). They can be found in multi-sensor applications or devices with an integrated display like smart thermostats. Mainly latching power relays like the DW/DE series are used in KNX applications such as control actuators, switching shutters, electronic ballasts or LED drivers. Electronic ballasts or LED drivers triggered by small and unobtrusive PaPIR sensors (Panasonic Passive Infrared Sensors) with a flat lens and built-in-amplifier technology which is optimized for sensing smallest movements. The EKMB PIR family with the world’s lowest current consumption of 1µA can be integrated perfectly into battery-driven products. Amorton Solar cells like the AM-30 fit perfectly into energy-harvesting and battery-free products like motion detectors. Additionally Panasonic Electric Works offers the biggest variety of signal and PhotoMOS relays which are used mainly for switching alarm and audio signals in security applications.
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