The house automation gathers the whole of the Technique S and Technologie S allowing to supervise, to automate, to program and coordinate the tasks of Confort, Sécurité, Maintenance and more generally of services in the individual habitat or collective. The word is a Néologisme, formed starting from the Latin word domus , (the Domicile), and of the suffix - ic meaning relative to , that one finds in electronic, electrotechnical, Robotique and the Informatique etc (this last term being a Mot-valise contractor “ informed tion” and “automa tick ”).

Presentation

The house automation includes a broad whole of technologies:

  • These automatisms can be sometimes coupled with the devices of piloting of the apparatuses electric household appliances S (electronic servant).

  • One of the principal goals consists in centralizing the “inputs/outputs” of the habitat then them to possibly interface with the Programmation of “scénarii of use” , (in relation to the practices of life of the residents). The most current applications are: the optimization of energy, the Safety of the goods and the people, the luminous environment, the Regulation of electricity, Heating or Air-conditioning, the simulation of presence, etc These scénarii will be able to take into account in a convivial way the evolution of the life or to intervene in a temporary or permanent modification of the “customs and practices” of the inhabitant, (example: people with “reduced mobility”, Handicap, accident, birth, etc)

  • In complementarity, the remote access by a footbridge Internet, Service Web, palm computer or Cellphone high banc 3G (OSGi), on the most advanced systems allows a development of the Services the person, registered in a network family, of vicinity, friendly or of professional service (Hospitalization and maintenance in residence, remote consultation, purchase in residence, remote monitoring etc).

  • the house automation applies to the individual habitat or collective just as easily that to the industrial and commercial buildings under name Immotique, or GTC , (Centralized Technical Management), or of GTB , (Technical Management of the Building industry).

  • On the basis of the simplest systems like the regulation of the Heating, them opening, safety while passing by most complex, of type “house entirely skeletal” and controllable in a way centralized, (temperature, light, audio-video, opening safety, heating, watering, etc), through one or several centralized orders, (Remote control, touchscreen, etc), it is possible to control the whole of the habitat by local orders, (in the habitat), or starting from a Micro-ordinateur, of a Mobile phone, (control interior or external with the residence).

Apparatuses concerned and their programming

  • According to the existing products house automations, it is possible Programmer oneself its house thanks to “modules” on which the apparatuses are connected. It is preferable to have recourse to a specialist, fitter domotician, electrician, Chauffagiste, Architecte, Domoticien, for more advanced installations.
  • the difficulty resides especially in the interfacing of all these technologies and the incompatibilities which do not fail to occur with the juxtaposition protocols.
  • the modules are controlled by telegraphic Radiocommande or : the order is started by a Télécommande or a relay/telebreaker in off-set order (telegraphic). The Intelligence centralizing these orders is a “power station” or an interface Micro-informatique.
  • the means of “catch in hand” and piloting are generally a palm computer, a Cellphone or Smartphone, a Télécommande (universal or not), a screen + Souris or touchscreen, to quote only the principal ones.

Various modes of transmission of the orders

  • Certain household apparatuses, are equipped with communication systems known as “integrated House automation”: boiler, convector, air-conditioner, system warning, detectors various, blind, gate, lamp/lighting, washing machine, alarm clock, coffee machine, freezer, refrigerator, digicode, intercom, etc, can be supervised by “interface Internet”.

The modes of transmission such as the infra-red one, the transmission current, the radio waves are used, but it can be allowed that telegraphic connections (Ethernet, DRUNK…) play in favor of the stability of the system.

Scopes of application

  • the house automation it is comfort, the management of energy, and safety in the habitat.
comfort: all that can facilitate the life of the people (carries automatic, interior refitting for people with reduced mobility etc). the management of energy: that passes as of the construction of the habitat by the choices of construction materials, then choice of energies and their managements. Safety: all that can be used for protection of the person (access control, fire alarm and intrusion, as well as the video monitoring).

  • the field of the house automation frames all the applications touching of near or by far the electricity, the electrotechnical , the electronic , the Informatique, the Automatisme S, the Multimédia, the Télématique etc It makes it possible to make a habitat “communicating”.

  • the various apparatuses of the habitat exchange between them information and ensure the occupant a better concept of “comfort of use”.
  • the communication is initially internal and interactive with the inhabitant but also allows him to communicate and intervene on its daily environment since average outsides, (Internet, telephony).

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