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.

Industrial automation

A Building Automation System (BAS) is an example of a Distributed control system. Building automation describes the functionality provided by the control system. The control system is a computerized, intelligent network of electronic devices, designed to monitor and control the mechanical and lighting systems in a building.

BAS core functionality keeps the building climate within a specified range, provides lighting based on an occupancy schedule, and monitors system performance and device failures and provides email and/or text notifications to building engineering staff. The BAS functionality reduces building energy and maintenance costs when compared to a non-controlled building. A building controlled by a BAS is often referred to as an intelligent building.

Infrastructure

Controller
Occupancy
Lighting
Air handlers
Constant Volume Air-Handling Units
Variable Volume Air-Handling Units
VAV Hybrid Systems
Central plant
Chilled water system
Condenser water system
Hot water system
Alarms and security

Robotics and Automation Interoperability Standards ProgramS

The increasing pace of technological change and expectations of shorter time-to-market for new products represent growing challenges for world manufacturers. These pressures, combined with the push for distributed manufacturing facilities, create an urgent need for shop floor robots and automation equipment that offer:

Real-time integration between engineering, production, and business function, which may be geographically dispersed. Information and instructions need to be transmitted and acted upon without the delays that currently occur because of missing or misinterpreted data.
Faster, more accurate, and more autonomous onboard planning, re-planning, and execution abilities that are driven by product and process models and respond to changes elsewhere in the manufacturing enterprise.

Machine tools, robots, and coordinate measurement machines currently require extensive trial-and-error debugging whenever a new program is downloaded. This rework and tuning by human operators results from the hard-coded nature of the programs, which cannot adapt to individual differences in each piece of equipment. The challenge is to provide the necessary information about the part design (features, tolerances, etc.) as well as the machine’s own characteristics so that it can automatically adjust for its own motion errors and other variations.
Interoperability of products from diverse vendors. Manufacturing enterprises must be able to buy the best equipment for their needs and to outsource production of various components. For these options to be economically viable, data must be reliably transferred among machine tools, robots, and coordinate measurement machines. U.S. manufacturers must be able to buy equipment with confidence that it will integrate with the rest of their enterprise.

The world manufacturing sector is suffering significant interface language incompatibility costs, since products can talk with one another only through translators that are costly to build and maintain.

For example, certain dimensional metrology product vendors must build and maintain internal translators for more than sixty different upstream and downstream products. All this cost is passed on to the OEM and eventually to the customer.

Airbus’s recently-reported anticipated $6.1 billion loss over 4 years was in large measure the result of interface language incompatibility. Besides their intrinsic cost, such translation efforts do not add to product value, are detrimental to quality, and stifle innovation.

The ideal solution to this problem is worldwide adoption of correct, complete, and unambiguous interface language standards. For the quality measurement sector of manufacturing, Figure 1 shows the number and types of interfaces along with the current and future standards at each interface.

The future objectives for world manufacturing sector are:

Define and update a standards infrastructure for quality measurement information at the interfaces between product design, product manufacture, measurement planning, measurement execution, measurement equipment, and measurement results analysis.
Define complete, correct, and unambiguous quality measurement information exchange standards in appropriate information modeling languages and make possible compliant implementations of those standards worldwide.
Define and develop implementation conformance tests for both sides of each interface defined in the standards infrastructure
Facilitate regular public demonstrations of interoperability with vendors worldwide for each interface in the standards infrastructure.
Act as an advocate for U.S. quality measurement systems user corporations (automotive, aerospace, defense, etc) and for quality measurement information exchange standards through meeting organization, conference talks, and board membership.
Integrate metrology information exchange standards with information exchange standards efforts in the broader manufacturing context, including machining, forging, casting, and assembly.

Conversion and CALCULATORS | Online Metric Conversion

The International System of Units (SI) is a modernized version of the metric system established by international agreement. The metric system of measurement was developed during the French Revolution and was first promoted in the U.S. by Thomas Jefferson. The following pages provides the conversion relationship between U.S.,English units and SI (International System ) units.

Some countries use the English System.The two measurement systems generally in use in the US are the English system and the metric system.

Why you need metric conversion ?

Metrification is important because nearly all world trade involves metric goods.

The metric system, in itself, is much easier to use than the traditional system, because you don't have to remember all the different conversions (16 ounces in a pound, 12 inches in a foot, and so on). You only have to remember a short list of prefixes that represent powers of ten: there are 1000 milligrams in a gram, 1000 grams in a kilogram, and so on, and the same prefixes work for all units. There are 1000 millimeters in a meter, and 1000 meters in a kilometer.

But if you need to convert from US units,from Imperial to Metric System and viceversawhat you do?

Simple,just use our online metric conversion calculators.