Time to switch
No need for wires with the Echo range of self-powered switches from MK Electric.
The company claims these wireless and battery-free installations “harvest tiny amounts of ambient energy” to send signals to a radio frequency receiver in light fittings.
Also in: BD Magazine - Housing - April 2008
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