Modern technologies are being actively implemented in everyday life human and make the sphere of his life more comfortable, convenient and safe. Smart Home automation is carried out using the MiMismart electronic system and a special application for mobile devices. The software and hardware complex provides control of illumination, temperature and air composition, operation of the boiler room, socket network, as well as a number of other parameters. This is necessary to manage household appliances, as well as almost any systems in the house and outside it through built-in automation. The equipment of the complex is characterized by compactness, reliability and low power consumption. Automation of life support systems management within the framework of the Smart House concept will allow to control their condition remotely from anywhere in the world. The only condition is the availability of mobile communications and the Internet.

Functionality of the Smart Home system

Comprehensive automation is possible not only for an apartment, but also for a separate building. The MiMismart system is configurable and compatible with many previously installed equipment.

Automation for Smart Home allows you to control:

lighting (turning on the light in the room you enter, or on the site when you drove up to it);
servomotors for curtains and roller shutters (their closing when using the cinema or at night, and later - opening);
heating and underfloor heating (setting the parameters of radiators, as well as floor heating up to comfortable temperature to your awakening)
air conditioning and ventilation (setting temperature and humidity, fresh air intake, etc.);
security alarm system (scenarios “I left”, “Security” will help prevent illegal intrusion into the house, and the automated complex is able to detect water and gas leaks from pipelines, shut off their supply and notify you and the dispatcher about an emergency);
multiroom (musical accompaniment, home theater, intercom).

The software and hardware complex Smart Home from the MiMismart company involves the automation of many management processes. Thus, a person gets rid of the need for their constant control.

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Equipment

As part of the apartment automation system, country house or any other detached building includes:

block of statistics and control,
GSM module with a SIM card to provide Internet access,
network gateways,
automation control modules,
sensors,
multichannel load switching modules.

Interface

Smart Home control of the building automation system is possible directly from the built-in remote control or remotely from a laptop or mobile device (tablet, smartphone). At the same time, the number of gadgets used is unlimited. In addition, it is possible to disable the remote control mode from the remote control, which eliminates external interference. The high reliability of the protection of the Smart Home home automation system is achieved through the use of sophisticated encryption methods. Similar programs are used in banking to ensure maximum resistance to hacking. At the same time, mobile applications that control the system and automation easily adapt to the user in color, appearance and icons, and also allow you to create your own scenarios.

To ensure the operation of the system automatic control equipment in the house uses a single-wire interface of the OW type. The twisted pair cable is laid discreetly and does not make changes to the interior. Smart Home automation provides for the acquisition of the necessary components, their installation, connection and adjustment.

Automation is increasingly being introduced into everyday life modern people. And if earlier automated production could be considered the pinnacle of progress, now even everyday life, an apartment or a private house, can be quite simply radically improved by introducing the concept of "smart home" there. After all, today "smart home" systems are designed not only to optimize energy costs, but first of all - to make a person's life more comfortable. The possibilities of modern "smart home" systems will be discussed in our article.

To combine home theater, lighting control, water supply, video surveillance system, climate control, power supply and access control, gas supply and multi-room into one system is the task that the smart home system solves today. Let's go through each of the points in sequence, consider what modern automation systems can do in relation to our everyday life.

Climate control

The microclimate of public and residential premises greatly affects our performance, and health in general. The conditions of the air environment in the premises vary depending on the modes of operation of the climatic equipment. Heating and ventilation equipment, lighting equipment, other devices - all this together has a certain total effect on the human body, on well-being, on health in the end. And technology is getting more and more complex.

Automated systems allow not only to quickly control and manage all this equipment, but ultimately take care of our health. Tracked by sensors Current state air in the room, and through the control panels, the operating modes of air conditioners and supply ventilation, and heating. That is, the climate is adjusted automatically to the requirements of a person, which are set by preliminary settings.

So climate control allows the following. Air quality control depending on the weather outside the window and on the time of day. Timely ventilation of the premises by controlling the heating and opening windows.

Underfloor heating control. Maintenance optimal temperatures and humidity individually in each room. For example, a food storage room requires its own special climate, which is different from the climate in the living room or in the kitchen, etc.

Control of temperature, humidity, fresh air intake, air purification system and ozonation. In each room, the conditions should be different, most suitable for each family member, taking into account the place in the house where this room is located: some to the north, some to the south, and control in each case will be individual.

Drafts are unacceptable in the nursery, the bedroom should be warmer, the bathroom floor should be warmed up in time, and you don’t need to keep it warm all the time. That is, the control turns out to be optimal so that the energy saving effect would also take place.

The setting varies according to the lifestyle of the family or the collective. On weekends, the heat supply to the working premises is reduced or switched off.

Autonomous heating system of a country house - on the contrary, it turns on for the weekend. The boiler is remotely turned on or switched to an economy mode, etc. Everything is rationalized to combine efficiency and comfort of life. This is especially true for water supply, electricity and heat supply.

Entertainment

For a long time you will not surprise anyone with a home theater. But manage out different places sound and video, as well as stereo systems located throughout the apartment - these functions are just implemented using the "smart home" system.

The home cinema is connected to an automated system, and the whole complex of multimedia equipment, together with auxiliary devices, is harmoniously integrated into the apartment. There can be several sources of sound and video, and they can be multi-channel: Acustic systems, receivers, plasma panels, projectors - everything is controlled directly or remotely from anywhere in the room.

You can watch movies and shows, listen to music in all rooms or just a few, program a scenario and activate it with one button from the touch panel or from the remote control. The script program can be written in individual conditions: blinds close, lights dim or dim, plasma panel turns on, projector pops up, player starts.

Scenario programs can be edited, set in time for automatic start, set related settings for watching movies, for example, turn on the air conditioner near the place where the home theater is installed, if the weather is hot.

The "multi-room" function is exactly the function that allows you to hear sound or watch video in several independent areas of the apartment. It becomes possible to control the volume from any room, each of which has push-button or touch, wall or desktop control panels, as well as remote controls remote control.

What could be a more expressive sign of the intelligence of the "smart home" system than smart control lighting? Smart home lighting is truly intelligent and therefore economical. Electricity resources in an apartment, house or office are used as economically as possible, without unnecessary extravagance.

The advantage of an automated lighting control system is that, based on data from external and outdoor lighting sensors, as well as timer data, it allows you to turn on and off the light of the desired brightness and only where it is really needed. In addition, they open up a wide scope for creativity. In addition, the option to simulate the presence of the owners is available.

The modern "smart home" system is a complex of technologies for comfort, safety and efficiency. Stability is ensured by integration in the event of a centralized power outage, so that the electronics remain operational at all times.

Batteries and inverters, chargers and liquid fuel generators are installed in the system and software integrated. At the time of a power outage, the system will automatically switch to a backup source, in last resort the batteries will continue to power security systems and critical equipment.

Automated security system

The smart home system includes, as part, security and fire alarm and video surveillance, so that both the stay of the owners in the house and their absence would be safe both for the house and for the owners themselves. A video intercom and a perimeter security system can be installed here to protect against uninvited guests.

As for safety in general, the “smart home” system is able to provide: protection against short circuits in the electrical wiring, protection against water leaks, protection against gas leaks, by triggering a smoke detector and turning on an autonomous fire extinguishing system, autonomous power supply, alarm, automatic call to the rescue service .

Thus, a “smart home” will protect itself and its owners from any dangerous situations, because the system can include: automated gates and doors, automatic security shutters, a video surveillance system, security alarm, sensors for presence, smoke, gas leakage, etc.

Access control to the premises, video surveillance of adjacent territories, turning on searchlights when penetrating through the perimeter are three more pluses in the treasury of advantages. Through the Internet, the owner will be able to remotely receive a picture from any of the cameras of the video surveillance system, and the baby monitor function can also be attributed here.

Video surveillance as such

Intelligent video surveillance is one of the main constituent parts modern "smart houses". Video cameras are connected to the Internet, and allow you to access yourself from anywhere in the world.

The owner can be abroad, while quickly monitoring any of the zones, and the video cameras here can be controlled. For example, controlled cameras are usually equipped with gates, courtyards, nearby buildings, and platforms near the doors of apartments. The operation of the video camera can be paired with a motion sensor, and signals can be sent to the control center.

The Internet and satellite television networks, as the main sources of information, are conveniently integrated into smart home systems today. Being inside the house, the owner can receive information and send it to various rooms, to TVs and monitors. This also applies to the transmission of information received from video surveillance systems. Thanks to the "multi-room" function, all these possibilities open up. Of course, via the Internet it is possible to configure, if desired, remote control.

Control with mobile phone through direct voice commands and via SMS is available today for owners of "smart home" systems. You can also set up call forwarding to your mobile phone if you are away from home, even if you are in another country.

If necessary, you can let guests into the house by simply sending the appropriate command from your mobile phone to your automated system. Similar opportunities are conveniently implemented via the Internet, it will be enough to find Wi-Fi for a smartphone or laptop.

Andrey Povny

Films often show a living space that seems to take on a life of its own. Light bulbs light up at the wave of a hand, curtains open, after a certain word music plays. All this equipment is an intelligent home system, and we propose to consider how to make a smart home with your own hands, what is needed for this, and also what is the scheme of such a system.

Smart home - what is it

A smart home is home automation, which is a residential extension of building automation. Home automation can include centralized control of lighting, HVAC (heating, ventilation and air conditioning), home appliances, unlock gates, doors, GSM and other systems to provide improved convenience, comfort, energy efficiency and security. It should be noted that for some categories of the population (the elderly, the disabled) this event may become necessary.

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With the latest introduction of SMART technologies into our lives, many no longer imagine their lives without automatic installations, software equipment, we need wireless internet, household appliances.

Home automation refers to the use of computer and information technology to control home appliances and their functions. It can range from simple remote lighting control to complex computer/micro-controller based networks with varying degrees of intelligence and automation. Home automation should preferably be as simple as possible.

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Benefits of using a smart home in an apartment based on PIC or WAVE:

Economical time spent on daily setting up various mechanisms, receiving calls, sending mail;
Use of gaseous or liquid fuel materials, and later the use of electricity, allowed for increased automation in heating systems, reducing the labor required to manually top up heaters and stoves.
The development of thermostats made it possible to set up more automated control of heating, and later cooling;
So often guarded industrial facilities, residential premises;
As the number of managed devices in a home increases, their relationship rises. For example, an oven can send notifications when it needs cleaning, or a refrigerator when it needs maintenance.
IN simple installations, smart can turn on the light when a person enters the room. Also, depending on the time of day, the TV can tune in to the desired channels, set the air temperature, lighting.

Smart home can provide interface-access to household appliances or automation to provide control and monitoring on your smartphone, via a server, mini Smart for iPhone, iPod touch, as well as using a laptop computer (requires special software: AVR Studio).

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Video: Schneider Electric smart home system

Smart home elements

Home automation elements include sensors (such as temperature, daylight or motion detection), controllers, and actuators such as motorized valves, switches, motors, and others.

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These are heating, ventilation and air conditioning, HVAC can control temperature and humidity, for example, the Internet control thermostat allows the homeowner to remotely control the heating and air conditioning systems of the building, the system can automatically open and close windows, turn on radiators and boilers, and underfloor heating.

Lighting

These lighting control mechanisms can be used to control household light appliances. Also here can be attributed the system of natural lighting, the work of blinds or curtains.

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Remote control presence effect (This is the most modern technology, which is used to increase security). It consists in lighting the light, musical accompaniment.
Imitation of presence
Temperature control
Brightness control (electric lamps, street lighting)
Security (alarm, blinds).

How to make a smart home

You can make an intelligent system with your own hands, the most a budget option- This is a setting to control the lighting in the house or turn on the computer.

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To make a lamp that will “light up” by itself, you will need to connect special equipment to it. There are several options for solving this problem:

Install an acoustic relay (1 or x10-wire);
Connect dimmer;
Connect motion sensor.

The easiest way to work with the sensor. Its sale is carried out in any online store, you can buy a channel device, you can develop your own according to your own parameters. The only remark is that you cannot install an incandescent lamp with such a device, it may not withstand the load and explode, it is better to work with LED.

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Another "smart" silent option is a dimmer. Here you will need to touch the lamp, depending on the number of touches, the talking device will change the brightness. It is very convenient to use on the lamp in the bedroom, nursery.

To set up temperature control and regulation, we need a multi-channel system. central scheme temperature and humidity control consists of:

Sensors (ds1820) that measure the physical state of the liquid, air.
Controllers (rfm12) which can be simple physical components and complex special purpose devices or embedded computers.
Lunex drives that respond to controller signals.

Most modern way is to buy all the components of a smart home, wires, thermostats. After installing the appliances in each room, one thermostat per radiator and one per boiler. You will also need a controlled unit, or the "brain" of the entire system. It is recommended to mount it on the heating inlet pipe.

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The easiest way to install a video surveillance and alarm system. Fundamental provisions for the installation of security systems:

You need to connect sensors on the windows, doorways, there the electrician will be the most productive;
The board is the most difficult to select, the smart home controller, the operation of mediocre parts, the level of signals depend on it;
Many experts believe that indicators should be mounted at floor level. About 20 cm from the baseboard, this increases efficiency;
It is desirable to establish permanent monitoring, to establish a digital system of contact with the security service. Often, responsible owners install a special program on their personal computer, which allows you to control the operation of the system from anywhere where there is an Internet (this is what Elena Teslya and her book advise to do: “Smart Home: How to Do It Yourself”, there are also other solutions ). You can enable SMS alerts.

A smart home is a very convenient way to make your life easier, often the whole system is bought completely (Arduino, KNX, Linux).

The cost of each system is individual. The most popular brands are: beckhoff, gira, lpt, redeye, Smart Switch IOT screen, teleco. We recommend that before you build such housing, consult with experts, they will help you calculate the load level, calculate the power consumption.

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To get ideas, you can scroll through V.N. video instructions, read the advice of famous masters.

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What is a smart home?

“Tiny mouse robots poured out of holes in the wall. Small, fussy cleaners made of metal and rubber swarmed in every room. They banged against chairs, twirled their bristly rollers, ruffled the carpet pile, silently sucking out hidden dust particles. Then they disappeared, like unknown aliens, darted into their shelters. Their pink electric eyes went out. The house was clean."

Familiar lines? This is an excerpt from a half-century-old translation of the half-century-old story "There Will Be Gentle Rain" by American science fiction writer R. Bradbury, in which a deserted automated house maintains cleanliness and maintains a household schedule set by the owners.

In the 1950s, such “intellectual” houses could only be dreamed of or read in popular science magazines and books. Conceptual developments of a comfortable automatic dwelling, if they were, were called differently. Before the appearance of the term "smart home" (smart home) in public, there were still about 20 years.

Motion sensors, heated floors, air conditioners, ventilation systems and heating boilers worked properly, but independently, not knowing about the existence of each other. Needless to say, the person himself had to take care of the comfort of his home. If the window was open and the air conditioner turned on, then it was necessary to regulate the temperature and humidity manually, comparing the readings of the outdoor thermometer with the room one.

Smart home… Technology?

The mass society of the mid-second half of the 20th century was also well aware that the house could be smart, as the design engineers of black-and-white TVs knew that they would later release color models. Meanwhile, without publicly available technologies and open standards, there was no question of at least some mass and inexpensive "smart home".

By comparison, American billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates' smart home, designed and built in the late 1980s, cost the well-known entrepreneur a whopping $63 million.

In 1975, the confusion over data transmission standards for home systems began to fade. The X10 protocol, the first open industry standard for data transmission in home automation systems, was introduced to the public. It was a communication protocol for electronic devices that ran at 60 Hz and 110 V in a typical home. electrical network. This somewhat limited the market of countries in which compatible devices could be used. In the Soviet Union, they certainly would not have earned.

The future owner of a home automation system according to the X10 standard was enough to purchase required modules, plug them into sockets and connect household electrical appliances through them to your home network in order to control them freely. Of course, at that time, the introduction of working modules for remote control by modem or high-speed control centers with programmable scripts could not happen.

Only in 1978, the first X10 modules appeared on the market: a 16-channel command console, a lamp control module, and an electrical appliance control module. Subsequently, switch modules and a timer module appeared. In theory, it is 1978 that is considered by many historians as the starting point in the history of home automation and smart homes. At the same time, the goal of the first home automation systems was precisely automation, and not the creation of control scripts. engineering communications And public utilities residential building.

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In the early 1990s, the first commercially successful solutions appeared and the young market for home automation systems was flooded with numerous firms offering various standard solutions, which is called "turnkey". Such a surge was caused by the emergence of a new international electronic system standard in 1992, which regulated the production of equipment for "smart homes", which made it possible to release systems and individual products by almost any commercial company or firm.

The new systems moved away from simply automating lights or appliances, and offered scenarios such as a "sleep" scenario where household lights were dimmed, appliances turned off except for essentials like the refrigerator, and the air conditioner in the bedroom turned on to bring the temperature down to a comfortable level.

The “security” scenario worked when the owner left the house, and home appliances, coupled with lighting fixtures, began to simulate the usual daily routine of residents, showing potential thieves and criminals that the house was not empty. In the event of illegal entry, an alarm was triggered, which could not only notify the district with a strong sound signal about the fact of break-in, but also turn on all household appliances and lighting, scare away a potential criminal.

By the end of the 1990s, the market situation improved as buyers have the opportunity to choose between products of different companies and different price categories.

So at what point did home automation systems become known as "smart homes"?

In fact, the term "smart home", which is so familiar to our compatriots, is a kind of hodgepodge of meanings from the English-speaking world. In the Western sense, there are several definitions of a smart home, depending on the format, scale and purpose of use: these are home automation, smart home and smart house. Each of them denotes a strictly defined sector of the market.

Accordingly, home automation is home automation systems; smart home - smart houses; smart house - smart buildings. In Russian, "smart home" has incorporated all of the above concepts and added new ones. For example, multi-room systems (multimedia control and home theater, music center), which in the West do not strictly belong to a modern home smart home and often represent ready-made solutions commensurate in complexity and cost with smart homes.

Smart home turnkey

"Smart homes" for Russians are, first of all, compact home solutions that allow you to automate routine processes in the house: turn the lights on and off; check the condition of electrical appliances, for example, an iron, or a refrigerator; install a video babysitter to keep an eye on a small child; adjust the operation of climate control systems (warm floors, heating, ventilation, air conditioning, etc.); do all this remotely, preferably from a mobile device, not from home, but from work, on the road, or in another city, or even abroad.

Today there is no need to think - how to make a smart home? Now ready-made solutions there is a sufficient number of this level on the market. This state of affairs was caused by the technical boom of the 1990s - early 2000s in the countries of the Asia-Pacific region, mainly in China, Vietnam, Malaysia, which were able to ensure the mass production of relatively cheap to manufacture and available on the retail market as microcontrollers, and individual solutions for automation systems, smart homes.

Smart home system

In the world, most commercial and residential real estate objects are equipped with automation systems or “smart home” systems, while in Russia this process is still in its infancy. It is already clear that automating the management of an entire building provides many advantages, for example, it reduces the cost of maintenance personnel, increases the level of comfort for guests, optimizes energy consumption, water and gas supply, and reduces environmental damage. Add tags

The concept of "smart home" is divided into several components and has different ways of implementation. Firstly, the concept of "smart home" is associated with the efficient consumption of resources: energy saving, water saving. Secondly, with the organization of security: video surveillance, alarm. Thirdly, with automatic control of the work of all engineering systems and electrical appliances: water leakage sensors, short circuit protection, etc.

The fourth element of the "smart home" is the increase in comfort, that is, the automation of actions that a person usually does on his own, from automatic start light to control the coffee machine thanks to your smartphone and tablet. According to experts, the market for home automation equipment and related Internet of Things (IoT) class smart devices experienced rapid growth last year. A clear indicator of its prospects is the interest from the IT giants Google and Apple.

But from the point of view of architecture, the main task of the modern "smart home" is not the ability to control household appliances from a distance, but to strive for zero energy consumption. It is possible to implement this different ways. Just like one of the world's leading architects Ben Van Berkel (UNStudio) does in his recent project of Villa W.I.N.D. , where automation and integrated management of all systems are combined, or get by with the “initial” level - a DIY (Do-It-Yourself) smart home kit for self-assembly.

The division between control systems that can be installed by the user himself, and those that require a professional installer for their installation / configuration, is gradually blurred. On the one hand, DIY systems are becoming more and more perfect, on the other hand, professionally installed systems are becoming more and more simple both in setup and in use, have stylish design and convenient menu. At the same time, they solve a variety of tasks, for example, organizing climate control in a cottage with a winter garden.

When thermal comfort and protection from the blinding sun require window shading, and visual comfort and the use of daylight require no obstacles to light, a dilemma arises that can be solved with the help of external sunshades and the universal control system WAREMA climatronic ® The control system optimally selects the angle of rotation of the slats and the height of the rises of the rafshtor, depending on the position of the sun, in order to cut off the hit of direct sun rays into the room and provide pleasant diffused light. This cannot be done in manual mode.

The compact WAREMA Climatronic ® sensor measures the brightness of the sun, rainfall, temperature, wind speed and direction for all building façades. Based on these data, a comfortable climate is created in accordance with personal requirements. Programming is carried out on the device itself or on a computer using special software. In this case, it can program the control of up to 7 thousand drive mechanisms. In addition, WAREMA climatronic ® makes it possible to control all connected consumers using the hand-held radio remote control of the WAREMA EWFS unified radio control system. So, without getting up from the sofa, you can separately control the sun protection device, turn on the light or install an artificial climate, and smoothly dim the lighting in the evening.

There are installations in which it is necessary to work out more complex scenarios, including not only light scenes and climate control, but also security systems and energy control modes. This is the area of complex projects created using the KNX protocol. By the way, Warema is also working in this direction. To send commands to all the components that control the house, you need a system that can communicate with individual devices in the same “language”. This task is performed by WAREMA KNX ® bus technology.