Very often in the process of discussing with the Customer the concept of his new home, residence, apartment or office, we are faced with the question of a smart home. Therefore, we believe to tell you briefly what it is and with what it is "eaten")
So, the Smart Home or Smart Home or Home Automation system is an extensive system of a large number of home devices and sensors (sensors) that perform and can even solve everyday tasks of the inhabitants, without distracting you from your undoubtedly more important and creative tasks Well, you understand). Such a system, with the current rhythm of life in a big city and your workload, can be customized exclusively for you and your favorite residents, which implies that each member of the family or office who has the right to access the system will be able to independently configure the smart home system for themselves and choose a set sensors for specific tasks.
The most common tasks of the Smart Home are:
- Automatic turning on or off the light;
- Regulation of alarm systems and tracking the current situation in the house with automatic notification of intrusion;
- Remote configuration of air conditioning and heating systems;
- Internet access to various Internet devices and the connection of their work with each other. We will pay special attention to this point, but in one of our next articles;
- Coordination of sensors about water leakage in a smart floor, radiators or pipes, or, conversely, about a fire.
Smart home is built on three main types of reported devices:
Hub, it’s the controller, it’s “the whole head”). A hub is a device for controlling the entire system, after you, of course), which combines all the elements of a smart home together and connects such a system with the open world where you are.
Sensors are devices for various purposes that track information about the external environment of these sensors.
Actuators are the very devices that are devices that execute commands. It is necessary to say here, for ease of perception, that these are the very sockets, valves, controllers, alarms (sirens), switches / switches, cameras, etc.
Such a modern system is now in contact with the devices of the system via a radio channel. The most common communication standards and protocols are WI-FI and Bluetooth with these types of data encryption AES-128, WPA, WPA2, as well as WEP. But with the outside world everything is simple and clear - communication is via the Internet. That is why the main challenge of such a system and problem is data security and fragmentation.
Data security directly depends on the level of complexity and importance of the system. The more destructive the consequences, the higher the probability of breaking into such a system. Thus, for industry, government agencies, medical centers, such risks are very high, but for the home system, such likely consequences are extremely small.
