DOE ITP –
Industrial Wireless –
WINA –
Wi-Fi Sensors –
Energy Efficiency
Dr. Peter Fuhr, CEO
Wi-Fi Sensors, Inc.
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History / Timeline:
National Academy of Sciences Report
July 2002 DOE Sponsored Workshop on Industrial Wireless Sensors, San Francisco, (40 invited attendees)
Dec 2002 DOE Industrial “Why Wireless” Report (Wayne Manges-ORNL, Fuhr)
Feb 2003 DOE/ITP RFP for Industrial Wireless Sensors Released
Sept 2003 DOE/ITP Awards made to Honeywell, GE, Eaton (+13 subcontractors)
April 2004 Wireless Industrial Networking Alliance (WINA) formed, BWI airport
(DOE-sponsored meeting, GM, ORNL, Ember, Fuhr)
Sept 2004 1st WINA meeting, Coral Gables, FL, 22 companies
ITP wireless project (GE, Honeywell
From WINA “voice of end user” surveys, Wireless Standard is Oct 2005 & Eaton)
Needed – ISA SP100 is formed (DOE/ITP, ORNL, Honeywell,
Invensys, Eaton) 1st ISA100 meeting, NASA- Jan 2006
Ames WINA expands
DOE Project Ends
ISA100 Participation Explodes 2006 - 2008
NIST, NSA, DHS involved
Pre-Release System deployments at BP, XOM, Chevron, Shell, Lilly, Cameco, many others Jan-Dec 2008
Honeywell, Emerson, GE, others release systems! Sept 2008
Fuhr DOE/ITP - Webcast on Wireless for Energy Efficiency Dec 2008
ISA100 meeting, NASA-Ames, 100+ attendees (representing 46 companies/organizations) Jan 2009
Wi-Fi Sensors formed. DOE ITP+EERE Steam Trap Project
Report Delivered to DOE HQ, ACEEE, GovEnergy May 2009

U.S. Department of Energy’s Wireless
Energy Efficiency Initiative
Presented at the ACEEE Summer
Study July, 2009
Elliott Levine, U.S. Dept of Energy
Peter Fuhr, Wi-Fi Sensors
Joe Crestor, U.S. Dept of Energy
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ITP – Wireless & Energy (Optimization, Savings,
Generation, Transmission)
174 participants, 80 requests for
presentations, Interest from
all sectors (public, private,
vendors, users, etc)

DOE ITP and Concrete Examples
Benchmarking demonstration is underway at
ORNL. Multiple vendors, standards based.
Tangible Results:
Economics and operability
Ease of Use
ROI analysis
ORNL Project just beginning – Circa Sep 09

DOE/ITP and Concrete Energy Savings
At my own plant in Missouri.
Instrumented 12 steam traps July 09.
Current savings: ~$1900.
(and it’s not even winter yet!)

Impact of DOE/ITP – Fostering an Industry Alliance
Promise of Wireless…….
Wireless technology and wireless networking systems hold great
promise to help industry use energy and materials more efficiently,
lower systems and infrastructure costs, lower production costs, and
increase productivity.

Small Sample of Supporting Companies
Wi-Fi
Sensors
Lots of Industry Expertise & Support for the ISA100 Standard

ITP Results:
© 2008 Apprion, Inc.

ITP Results:
Job Creation Industrial Wireless Standard, ISA100
A Few of the Companies formed specifically
for this ITP-driven effort:
AirSprite
Wi-Fi Sensors
ArchRock
Perpetuum
On-Ramp
Dust Networks
E-Senza
Machine Talker
Tendril
ElTav
Pedigree Technologies
Nivis
GainSpan
Proto6
Cimetrics
IP Infusion
Silver Spring
Smart Signal
Mocana (and others too!)

Who’s Interested in the Economic Benefit of this
Program? Dept of Commerce, Dept of Labor
Why? 100+ industrial wireless companies started
since 2005, $400M invested, 2000+ employees
Investment Community
EPRI
End Users, ACS
11 © 2008 Apprion, Inc.

Where has this Economic Benefit taken place?

Personally: ITP Industrial Wireless led to
Wi-Fi Sensors, Inc.

Wi-Fi Sensors, Inc.

Wi-Fi Sensors, Inc.

Bottom line: ITP has helped Wi-Fi Sensors, Inc.
34 employees
Personal investment
Stimulus Package Loan

What I tried to cover:
DOE ITP –
Industrial Wireless –
WINA –
Wi-Fi Sensors –
Energy Efficiency
DOE EERE Goal:
Drive a 25% reduction in industrial
energy intensity by 2017.
Contact info: peter.fuhr@wi-fisensors.com
m: 831-588-7558, f: 602-357-7411