Product Details

Wireless Push Buttons for Flexible, Infrastructure-Free Industrial Control": Air-Push Series

The Air Push Series Wireless Push Buttons are a revolutionary battery-free wireless control solution that enables push button control signals to be transmitted wirelessly to receivers without any wired connection, wireless infrastructure, or battery power supply — making industrial push button control truly portable, relocatable, and infrastructure-independent. Utilising energy harvesting technology to generate the wireless transmission energy from the mechanical press of the push button itself, the Air Push Series eliminates both the wiring and the battery management challenges of conventional wireless push buttons, delivering the simplest, most deployment-flexible wireless control solution available for industrial automation.

The energy harvesting principle behind the Air Push Series is elegantly simple and operationally transformative. When the operator presses the push button, the mechanical energy of the press is harvested by the button's internal energy converter and used to power the wireless transmission of the control signal in that instant — no battery required, no charging infrastructure needed, no wiring to install. The control signal is received by the paired wireless receiver, which interfaces with the machine or control system through its wired output connection. The result is a wireless push button that can be placed anywhere within range, moved at will, and will never need its battery replaced — because it has none.

The industrial implications of battery-free wireless push button operation are significant. In manufacturing environments, battery-powered wireless devices require a maintenance programme to monitor battery state and replace batteries before they cause device failure — an overhead that increases with every wireless device added to the facility. In safety-critical applications, a flat battery that causes a control device to fail is a serious operational concern. The Air Push Series eliminates both the maintenance overhead and the failure risk of battery dependency, providing a wireless control solution that is available and functional every time the operator needs it.

The Air Push Series is designed for the range of industrial push button applications where wireless deployment delivers genuine operational advantage — including flexible assembly line workstations where the button position must adapt to changing product configurations, ergonomic control positioning that follows the operator rather than being fixed to a machine structure, temporary or reconfigurable production layouts where wired button installation is impractical, and machine guarding applications where a freely positioned acknowledgement button is needed without cable routing through safety guards.

The wireless communication uses a secure, interference-resilient protocol appropriate for industrial environments where multiple wireless devices operate in proximity, ensuring reliable signal reception even in facilities with dense wireless traffic from WiFi, Bluetooth, and other industrial wireless systems. The receiver unit provides the wired output interface — typically a digital I/O signal compatible with PLC inputs — that connects the wireless button signal seamlessly into the existing machine control architecture.

For manufacturing engineers, automation specialists, and production managers who want the operational flexibility of wireless push button control without the battery management burden, the Air Push Series delivers the infrastructure-free, maintenance-free wireless control solution that makes truly flexible industrial push button deployment practical.

Key Features

• Battery-free operation — mechanical press energy harvested to power wireless transmission
• No wiring, no battery, no charging infrastructure required
• Freely relocatable for flexible assembly, ergonomic, and reconfigurable production layouts
• Secure, interference-resilient wireless protocol for industrial environments
• Receiver provides standard wired digital output for direct PLC integration