Automating and Integrating Residential Systems Copyright © 2005 Heathkit Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved Presentation 1 – Introduction

2 Objectives At the end of this exercise, you will be able to:

3 Identify three home automation technologies that use existing house wiring as their transmission medium. Explain the purpose of the X10 remote, transceiver, and lamp modules.

4 Explain the addressing scheme of the X10 technology. Select and configure X10 modules to control lighting remotely.

5 Home Technology Integration (HTI) Series Residential Cabling Technologies Residential Audio and Video Systems Residential Security Systems Home Automation Systems

6 Purpose of this Home Automation Course To give you the electrical foundations needed to understand home automation systems. To give you a working knowledge and understanding of using PLC and wireless systems found in modern homes. To help you prepare to become a Home Technology Integrator.

7 So What Can We Automate? Virtually everything you do by hand.

8 How About Turning On The Lights?

9 Or turn on the pool lights at dusk. Courtesy of Key Industries

10 Or turn on a small fan.

11 Or a whole- house fan. Courtesy of R.E. Williams Contractor Inc.

12 t Or guard the windows and doors.

13 Or turn on the lawn sprinklers.

14 Or turn on and automatically adjust your mood tunes.

15 Or turns up the heat a little.

16 Or cool off the upstairs bedroom before retiring for the evening.

17 Or close the drapes if the sun comes out. Or open them, if it gets too cool.

18 Or turn on a little, itty-bitty fan when the room gets too warm. Use this rain sensor to turn off yard sprinklers.

19 Or have virtually all of them operate at the same time. It’s all up to you. Tell them what to do, and they’ll do it.

20 So How Do You Tell Them What To Do? You use a hand- held controller.

21 Or a bigger one.

22 Or connect your system to a computer.

23 Besides Controllers, You Will Also Need Actuators.

24 And You Need One Other Thing, Media.

25 Media Can Be: Copper Cables Fiber Optic Cables Or RF or infrared in a wireless system

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