User talk:BlackSparrowIOT

BlackSparrow Automations
Home automation or smart home is the residential extension of building automation and involves the control and automation of lighting, controlling, managing electrical components, ventilation, air conditioning (HVAC), and security, as well as home appliances such as washer/dryers, ovens or refrigerators/freezers that use WiFi for remote monitoring. Modern systems generally consist of switches and sensors connected to a central hub sometimes called a "gateway" from which the system is controlled with a user interface that is interacted either with a wall-mounted terminal sensors, mobile phone software and tablet computer often but not always via internet cloud services.

While there are many competing vendors, there are very few world-wide accepted industry standards and the smart home space is heavily fragmented. Popular communications protocol for products include X10, Ethernet, RS-485, 6LoWPAN, Bluetooth LE (BLE), ZigBee and Z-Wave, or other proprietary protocols all of which are incompatible with each other. Manufacturers often prevent independent implementations by withholding documentation and by suing people.

BlackSparrow is an IOT based automation company established by Savaliya Brothers in Surat.

Contents


 * 1) History
 * 2) Applications and technologies
 * 3) Implementations
 * 4) Protocols
 * 5) Octon Mega

History

The word "domotics" (and "domotica" when used as a verb) is a contraction of the Latin word for a home "domus" and the words/fields informatics, telematics and robotics.

In 1975, the first general purpose home automation network technology, X10, was developed. It is a communication protocol for electronic devices. It primarily uses electric power transmission wiring for signalling and control, where the signals involve brief radio frequency bursts of digital data, and remains the most widely available. By 1978, X10 products included a 16 channel command console, a lamp module, and an appliance module. Soon after came the wall switch module and the first X10 timer.

Old automation techniques costs the high maintenance and higher installation charges to be paid for automation systems, hence it only supported the IR Based remote control or NRF based connectivity. Nowadays, it is improved and extended with WiFi and internet support enhancing the possibilities to control the home over the network, but still the products is not cost-efficient.

By 2012, in the United States 1.5 million home automation systems were installed according to ABI Research.

First generation: wireless technology with proxy server, e.g. Zigbee automation;

Second generation: artificial intelligence controls electrical devices, e.g. amazon echo;

Third generation: robot buddy "who" interacts with humans, e.g. Robot Rovio, Roomba.

Applications and technologies

Heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC): it is possible to have remote control of all home energy monitors over the internet incorporating a simple and friendly user interface.

Lighting control system

Appliance control and integration with the smart grid and a smart meter, taking advantage, for instance, of high solar panel output in the middle of the day to run washing machines.

Security

a household security system integrated with a home automation system can provide additional services such as remote surveillance of security cameras over the Internet, or central locking of all perimeter doors and windows.

Protocols

There are a wide variety of technology platforms, or protocols, on which a smart home can be built. Each one is, essentially, its own language. Each language speaks to the various connected devices and instructs them to perform a function.

A remote control system for lamps and appliances from X10 Wireless Technology that uses the home's electrical system as the signaling network. The standard powerline system since it was developed in 1975 for many years, x10 transmitters and receivers are set to one of 256 low-voltage codes. The controller, which contains the switch and transmitter, is an external unit that plugs into any AC outlet, or it replaces the light switch on the wall. The receiver plugs into the AC outlet, and the lamp or appliance plugs into the receiver. When the switch is activated, it sends a signal into the electrical line that is picked up by the receiver, which turns on/off or dims the lights. Several lamps can be treated as one group by setting their receivers to the same code.

Octon Mega
BlackSparrow released two different automation controllers at cheapest cost into market, as it was the new initiative for all. There are the first two products released by BlackSparrow:
 * 1) Octon Mega v1.0
 * 2) Octon Mega v2.0

Octon Mega v1.0

It was the first cheapest and very cost efficient automation system released that can be afforded by everyone, it supports 16 switches wireless control Over IR remote, WiFi based Control and also support Manual switching all included in one system at 360.0 US Dollar. this product is entirely maintenance free.

Octon Mega v2.0

It was the second product by BlackSparrow, India, which was featuring Everything included under Automation like, Lights On/Off control, Light Dimming control, Automated and sensors based brightness control, Mood lighting control, curtains control and also the biggest and rarely available VOICE based automation control feature which can also be controlled over Internet, Wifi, IR control, Touch screen Control, Voice commands, Sensors etc. This is also released at cheapest cost of automation for powering Digital India. this product is also maintenance free and costs up to 1000.0 US Dollar.

Hence this was a great initiative by Indian brothers, they started a Research work in automation systems to provide the cheapest systems and make India use more and more technology.