SmartEngine by wtec

wtec GmbH creates technological solutions for smart and efficient buildings. We optimize buildings using software and hardware solutions, and develop systems based around simplicity, efficiency, user friendliness and reliability. The building of the future, in our vision, is one that is extremely efficient and interactive – that provides value and ease of use for the tenant, the operator and the owner. Developers in Frankfurt and Silicon Valley are consistently working on innovative products and solutions, employed worldwide by leading blue chip companies. Over the last decade, the smartengine technology is running in over 20 countries, with around 500 completed projects worldwide totaling to 15 million square feet.

We make buildings smart. Imagine a building that is as intelligent as man himself. It perceives what is going on, reacts and adapts to its users. It learns and constantly improves. It does not remain at the same level as when it was born, but provides the basis for new skills and new knowledge. In our understanding, this is a digital intelligent building. smartengine technology unites these characteristics and gives buildings sensory organs and a nervous system as well as applications for its users.

We increase employee satisfaction, optimize space utilization and reduce operating costs. Smart Buildings go beyond optimizing operation and improving the work space environment. Modern and flexible work spaces as well as the growing importance of employee satisfaction, present companies with new challenges. Buildings today are measured depending on productivity-enhancing and inspiring environment. At the same time, they should be economical and flexible.

smartengine is a building intelligence and lighting control platform designed to power lights and sensors over an IT network infrastructure backbone. Sensors are deployed throughout a space and communicated with in real time to deliver advanced insights throughout the entire built environment. The technology replaces conventional power infrastructure and complex BUS systems, controls and associated wiring / wireless relays, and networking equipment that is required to communicate between devices and to measure and monitor data. In its place, smartengine utilizes network cable infrastructure to deliver power, control and communication over one set of wires. This approach greatly reduces design complexity and installation cost, while at the same time providing a communication backbone for the entire building. Sensors on each luminaire detect motion, brightness, temperature and per fixture power consumption – and deliver this data to the smartengine in real time. The networking of rooms and buildings via sensors makes it possible to quickly obtain a detailed understanding of how spaces are being used, all the while delivering best in class lighting energy savings, often measured between 0.1-0.3 W/ft².

The smartengine powers LEDs in the most efficient way possible and enables real time data communication. It provides constant current DC electricity to the LED fittings, eliminating the need for any additional active components. The fixtures should meet the following requirements, and are all considered SELV protection class III appliances.

The smartdirector is responsible for the logical management of up to 40 smartengines and up to 2,000 sensors. The collected sensor data is stored at the director for up to one year. The smartdirector also serves as the communication link between smartengine and 3rd party building systems via an integrated, open API and a BACnet/IP interface for building management systems (BMS).

smartsensors function as the data collection devices when deployed in a fine mesh network throughout the built environment. They collect motion data via a digital passive infrared (DPIR) sensor, light levels through a photocell, and temperature. These sensors collect and report data in real time, which allows the continuous monitoring of a building. Integrated Bluetooth Beacons enable use cases like Indoor Navigation, Nearby-Functions and automated Room-Control / Localization.