Technically, the smart home to be achieved the main features are:
(1) white goods and other equipment for the control, regulation and monitoring, such as microwave ovens, washing machines, lighting, electric blinds, burglar alarms, smoke detectors, automatic doors, hazardous gas detection devices, temperature and humidity control, air volume control , a variety of manual switch and remote control.
(2) black appliances and communication devices as well as other video and information channel between the outside world, including: desktop / handheld computers, television, recording / camera, VCD / DVD and digital cameras; the same time can be achieved for their control and monitoring.
(3) through the external interface, remote control and information exchange, such as: telephone lines, cable TV cable, mains power cable, twisted pair and wireless communication methods.
The above-mentioned functions, involving a variety of information, such as lights and other appliances, computers and other information equipment. So much equipment, information, smart home is how to distinguish and control it? Let us look at the smart home of the composition and characteristics of each part.
Information flow from the intelligent home media point of view, concrete can be divided into two parts:
1 control network
If the basic structure of the smart home in the right half of the figure shows, it is mainly control the operation of Panasonic Lumix DMC-FS35 Battery Charger the home state of various devices, such as the lamp off / off and brightness control, air conditioning, start / stop and temperature and air volume control, family security system signal acquisition and implementation of a variety of switch inputs, electric curtains on / off control, the indoor detection of various physical quantities (such as temperature, humidity, and a variety of gases, etc.), four tables (gas meters, electricity meters, water and heating of the calorimeter) the output data and instructions and so on.
Control network is characterized by: the information transmitted on the network control information as well as some of the main physical parameters. Relatively low frequency signal, so the transmission rate can be relatively low, usually in the tens of Kbps can meet the requirements, but the reliability of information transmission are relatively high. This is because it transfers the control information is information about a variety of devices, it is wrong not only may lead to a non-work, and may result in equipment damage. Therefore, the main control network to solve the technical problem is the reliability of transmission.
(2) Information Network
In other parts of the figure we have referred to it as information network connected computer equipment, TVs, audio systems, video recorders, digital cameras and cell phones.
The information transmitted on the network is mainly audio and video signals, their frequency bandwidth are generally up to several megahertz, so the information required on the network information transmission rate is relatively high, generally should reach 10Mbps or more. But relatively speaking, it does not control the reliability of the information requested so high. Because the information in the transmission of video and audio have some before and after processing (such as signal compression and encoding / decompression and Nikon Coolpix 4500 Battery Charger decoding), these processes have some fault tolerance, and even transient errors only affect the sound or the instantaneous image error, and the operation of the equipment after almost no effect. Therefore, the information network is technically required to solve the main problem is the transmission rate (ie bandwidth), that is possible under the conditions, to maximize the information network bandwidth.
Network: the skeleton of the smart home
We have already introduced, the smart home network through a unified platform for the family bus and control of electrical devices, lighting control systems, security control systems, energy management systems fused. Current trends in smart home controlled by centralized to distributed control, compared with the centralized control, distributed control can not only reduce the wiring, but also improve the reliability of the system, when a node fails, only the node removed from the network, while other nodes are not affected.
Distributed intelligent home control network general structure shown in Fig. By the figure we can see, intelligent home control network mainly consists of the following parts:
1 bus coupler (BCU-BusCoupleUnit)
This is the home appliances / equipment connected to a key part of the network, but also bus and network link between the home devices. Its main role is the first of each BCU in the exchange of information between, the signal to achieve the home access device (input) or the control signal output. BCU process information and determine whether the information or other BCU by bus for transmission. In addition, each BCU can connect multiple home devices, it also need to determine the source of information.
(2) the driving part of the appliance control signal
BCU in terms of input drive voltage or output current drive capability is very limited, and drive part of the BCU is to output the control signal “zoom” ability enough to drive home appliances, as well as the weak input signal should be. ” zoom in “to be recognized and receive a BCU level.
3 appliances
This is the actual use of smart home devices. It is currently home to use the equipment with the difference is: they are more flexible and can be configured to connect with the appropriate BCU interface. Generally had only a on / off status of household appliances (such as microwave ovens, rice cookers, etc.) almost do not change too much; the original home has multiple functions regulating device (such as television Adjustable volume, channel; air adjustable temperature , wind direction and direction; sound system adjustable volume, quality and changer, etc.), household equipment manufacturers should be done by the larger changes that should increase one for each appliance connected with the BCU interface so that you can receive from BCU control signal (to replace the original remote control function), and send their work to the BCU status signal to monitor.
4 universal remote
In an intelligent home control any home device on the network only through a single remote control, you can achieve on their control and monitoring. That not only can control home devices work, such as equipment start / stop, change in working conditions and parameters, etc., can also be monitored by remote control, for example, see the indoor temperature to see whether the bathroom light off, water heater is still heating … …. In other words, where the remote control and home appliances, two-way information exchange is carried out, and now the home of the remote control only has a one-way function, but not reverse the monitoring function.
5 Telephone Interface
Here the telephone interface and remote control home has the same effect, but the remote control at home in the close control and monitoring, and telephone module allows telephone / mobile phone for the remote control and monitoring.
6 home gateway
Home smart home gateway is an important part of the network, it is a single home network and the outside world (such as local area network, Internet network, or JVC BN-VF808U Battery Charger the Intelligent Community of the sub-networks) to communicate with the key components. Home gateway settings, as now, like a computer on the network, you can go to each site visit a variety of information, you can send / receive Email, etc., but can also be connected to the Internet on a remote computer to control and monitor the family in a variety of devices.
Technology: Smart Home nerve
In the future a complete digital home, will reflect the current comprehensive integration of various high-tech. As to constitute a true sense of the intelligent home, the technology must be the intersection of various disciplines. Therefore, the functions in order to build a real home, need a variety of industries, various IT companies for support.