The EnOcean Alliance is trying to get the technology adopted as a standard by the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) It has built an ecosystem of 175 companies around it around it. EnOcean’s innovation was to harvest energy from mechanical movement of light switches, swipe card readers and even door handles to power its radio transmitter. A central computer can receive messages from the mousetraps and notify staff which ones need checking. Shaspa Research is showing a clutch of gateways for home automation.”]
Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/2127313/wireless-tech-saves-energy—and-makes-better-mousetrap.html