Home & Industrial automation
Domotics( automation )represents a technological science which studies all the things employed in the houses or the buildings facilitating the work of peoples and increasing the comfort in their environment. The term DOMOTICS is a contraction of the words:
DOMUS (lat.= home or house) and INFORMATICS (=the science concerned with the collection, transmission, storage, processing and display of information).
Domotics will become of importance to any application in the domestic environment where electricity and electronics are involved and also on recent developments such as: tele-shopping, tele-banking, tele-working, remote control of household and utilities in house, and tele-metering. All these new evolutions will also have influence on social live improving the “quality of life” for all the peoples, including peoples with disabilities or sick peoples too.
This site is introducing you to a number of technologies and products ( includes some of the terminology, an explanation of various products and projects, as well as some design basics) that can be used for everything from controlling lighting levels, watering your lawn, closing your drapes, managing sundry appliances in your home, saving energy and much more.
Smart Homes | Simple or Complex
Smart Homes can be as simple or as complex as you want. Maybe you’re only interested in dimming the lights in your kitchen. Or, maybe you want to do something more comprehensive, more complex, like setting up the whole house to be on a certain schedule and to work with your family’s daily routine. Whatever your
needs, there’s a Smart Home gadget or system to handle it for you.
Home Entertainment
We live in a day and age where there’s a TV and stereo in every room of the house. But, if you don’t want to buy a TV, VCR,DVDplayer, video game console, stereo, and satellite dish receiver for each and every room yet still want that availability, the Smart Home can help you.
By distributing the signal from your home entertainment system throughout the house, you can watch TV in the bedroom while your wife listens to music in the living room while your kids save the galaxy from the alien mutant menace in the family room.
Utilities System
Security systems, computer networks, distributed audio and video signal everything is possibile to control in a Smart Home. Even the utilities system.Connecting your Smart Home to a heating, ventilating, and air conditioning (HVAC) system can both save you money and make your home a more pleasant place to live. Just about
any home utility—from air to water—can be managed by the Smart Home.
Exterior Needs
The Smart Home doesn’t limit usefulness to the interior of the house. It isn’t all security systems and computers. There are definite needs outside that can be managed by the Smart Home. For example, automatic lighting can be set up to
add an additional layer of safety and security. If you want to watch your dog in the backyard, a video camera can be set up to observe Fido chasing rabbits.