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Promwad specialists wrote the article "Multimedia control panel for "smart house", which was published in 4th issue of "Modern electronics" magazine.
Most people, when they hear about "smart house", start thinking about a big country mansion packed with electronics, which one can see only in TV programs about the lives of the great. Undoubtedly, some time ago it was partially true. Nowadays, you can easily see omnipresent passive intellectualization of our accommodation.
If nowadays, home devices for recreation and entertainment are more actively subject to intellectualization, while other devices (especially household) are less affected by this tendency, then in a short time the situation will improve and the "intellectual" gap between manufactured home electronic devices will narrow. Even now, one can see active development of "smart house" technologies in the sphere of household devices (air-conditioning, ventilation, lightning and heating systems, etc).
But we must not forget that it is one thing to buy these devices, and another thing - make them work together. Intelligent building institute (Washington) believes that a "smart house" is the building that provides productive and effective use of working place because of optimization of its four main elements: structure, systems, services and control, which provides interaction between them". If in the very beginning, the task of controlling "smart house" extended only to household devices and was solved by means of electricity control, then in present time each device in the building must be subordinate to a single center and be controlled by it.
That's why exactly the article deals about the problem of controlling "smart house", organization of interaction between different devices and also ways to solve this problem.
In particular, the article has the results of market analysis of universal control panels, describes most popular solutions from manufacturers, lists main requirements to devices of such type. The article also has the description of the solution developed by Promwad Innovation Company, including detailed information on hardware and software. |
