Intelligent domotic

systems
Paul BORZA, Doru TALAB
University Transilvania of Brasov
Address Eroilor 29, 500036-Brasov
ROMANIA
paul.borza@siemens.com, talaba@unitbv.ro

Patras, July 2006

Introduction
What means Domotics?
a technological science which

studies all devices in the house or the

building, facilitating the work and increasing
the comfort of peoples,
is focused on the integration of all
automations within the house,
.and

creates an ideal environment for the human

life the DREAM HOUSE !

Functionalities implemented into a

Dream House

Health care and

monitoring

What a current automate system is

doing in house?
A home automation system automates the
whole house,
triggering events and routines involving light
fixtures,
security components and
the heating/cooling system based on the time
of day, temperature or any other condition that
you select
Recognize stages and react adequate
(specific) at these

Dream House means integration

and intelligence
INTEGRATION (i)
Assures specialized control systems in house,
such as:
HVAC;
White good elements;
Security and Access system;
Audio-video systems;
Motorized systems;
Monitoring systems;
Communication systems.

Integration (1)
Fusion of different kinds of information (that
means to take into account the majority or all of
them at the reaction of smart objects)
Better coordinate the objects integrated in order
to:
Saving energy or row materials
Increase functionality of smart elements
Reducing the reaction time
Sensing the context and adapt the own reaction
Adapting their response at the specificity of human
operator

Intelligence of elements (2)

This feature consist in the capacity of elements
to offer:
An adequate response at stimuli or events assuring a
correlation of the response with a large factors
number. The result is function from the current stage
of element and the interactions this and his
neighborhoods)
Dynamic response (is changed during the response
action)
Complex response ( the response is formed by a set
of actions triggered by a specific event)

INTEGRATION (ii)
HVAC systems
Adapt better the parameters of systems to
each other
Adjust dynamically those parameters in a
synergetic way making life more pleasant
Save energy by optimizing the functioning
regimes of HVAC

INTEGRATION (iii):
Lighting system
Optimize the light adequate with the destination
of room or place illuminated
Switch automatically the bulbs by sensing the
human presence in the room
Use a optimal illumination of rooms by
combining the natural with artificial illumination
Accept a large variety of switching elements that
can be placed with minimum restrictions on the
walls of the room (see capa-link solutions)

INTEGRATION (iv):
Security and Access system
Seeing and talking to the person at the door or
gate before opening it
Electronic door locks can provide security as
well as the ability to lock the building or allow
emergency access with one command
Accept a variety of configurations that allow to
calculate a large kinds of logical functions
between the sensing signals and the actuators
controlled by system

INTEGRATION (v):
Audio video systems
The media room where the family can
spend time together in a less formal
entertainment setting.
Speech interface will provide the ability to
control systems without having to press
buttons or touch screens.
Provide a high conectivity with the other
systems existing in house

INTEGRATION (vi)
Other systems:
Motorized door and windows and blind windows
openers allow ventilation and access
Motorized window treatments can automatically
open and close to allow sunlight and privacy as
needed.
Remote vehicle starters provide a warm vehicle
in the colder climates, and can open doors and
ramps if the vehicle is so equipped.

Design principles related to the subsystems of the Dream House

Structural design
means the representation (the model) of all elements included in
house automations and the links between one each other

Functional design
means the functional mapping of the useful functions in the house
with correspondent domotic sub-systems

Nature of elements:
Hardware, Software

Design for spatial and temporal independence of

elements
plug and play, ad-hoc networking, ubiquitous systems

Financial aspects

Facilities resulting from the integration

one touch control

optimal strategies and control
Aesthetics.
Remote location control and automated
control.
Safety and security.
Providing control over indoor and outdoor
Energy conservation and environmental
controls.

What means intelligent device in

house?
A element able to process information and to
react specific at them
A element able to communicate with the peoples
that populate the house
A element able to communicate with another
machine in a network using protocols
A element able to change dynamically the
functionalities according to the status of the
entire system

Intelligent building components

Facet of implementations of
domotic elements
Embedded solutions (dedicated to
implement a function or a set of functions
result of hardware and software
correlation)
Networked solutions (means to correlate a
lot of elements and parameters)
Software solutions:
Specific
Generic

Smart objects versus computer

assistance

Spontaneous networking

Cooperative work

Subsystems of an intellingent house

New Trends in Domotics

Ability of domotic systems to offer a wide range of functions
such as: tele-working, monitoring of house parameters
(temperature, humidity, illumination, energy consumption,
security, access control), e-commerce, e-learning,
automatic meter reading (AMR), remote health care
monitoring, etc.
Transition to a world of services
Transition to an unified communication system (broad band
connections)
Developing of generic functions able to discover, manage,
and optimize the operation of elements, saving energy and
row materials
Scalability of system developed (hardware and software)
Versatility and re-configurability of systems developed

Functions that can be offered now

in house
Automation of the majority of systems located in
house
Using personal computers, PDA or mobile
phones it is now possible to make the shopping
to learn without any temporal or spatial
restriction, to pay the invoice for electricity,
water, gas
Using monitoring systems for main parameters
like: pulse, respiratory and cardiac rhythms,
temperature, ECG.

Transition to a world of services

Tele control of the majority functions in house

Offer verified and selected data at demand
Offer video, audio at demand
Monitor the essential bio-physical parameters
for inhabitants of house
Improve the services related to utilities provided
for the house by an adequate chose of the
provider for each of them (energy, water, gas,
etc.) and by an optimal management.

COMMUNICATION
INTERFACES

NUT controllers

PROCESSOR

HMI

Data
Memory

Program
Memory

Configuration
Memory