about verve
Verve Living Systems is a new brand within Masco Corporation, a leading manufacturer of consumer products for the home improvement and new home construction markets.
Verve was founded by a small team of Masco executives who discovered a technology and recognized the potential it had for dramatically improving the way consumers live their lives and the way developers, homebuilders, architects, electricians and other tradespeople design and build houses.
Developed by EnOcean GmbH, a spin-off of Siemens Corporation, this patented technology is a remarkable breakthrough in energy-harvesting, radio frequency science. EnOcean engineers discovered a way to gather energy from the simple act of clicking a switch – energy that can be used to transmit a small, compact radio signal wirelessly and at astonishing speed.
What we saw in the technology was the opportunity to support a wide range of wireless, battery-less applications for the home that were at once remarkably innovative, enormously energy efficient and surprisingly affordable.
The company's first application is a whole house lighting control system that gives homeowners a new level of control over the lights in their home. Additional applications will become available in the near future. In the works are applications in HVAC monitoring and control, whole house environmental monitoring and home security.