PC control of room equipment

Τίτλος

PC control of room equipment

Θέμα

Automatic control

Dwellings

Δημιουργός

Partasides, George

Πηγή

Higher Technical Institute

Το πλήρες κείμενο είναι διαθέσιμο από το Υπουργείο Ενέργειας, Εμπορίου Βιομηχανίας και Τουρισμού.

Εκδότης

Library of Cyprus University of Technology

Ημερομηνία

1998

Συνεισφέρων

Hadjioannou, S.

Δικαιώματα

Απαγορεύεται η δημοσίευση ή αναπαραγωγή, ηλεκτρονική ή άλλη χωρίς τη γραπτή συγκατάθεση του δημιουργού και κάτοχου των πνευματικών δικαιωμάτων.

Μορφή

pdf

Γλώσσα

en

Τύπος

text

Αναγνωριστικό

EED0635

Σύνοψη

The purpose of this project is to study the personal computer and the methods used for connecting an external electronic device to it. The final objective of the project is to design a computer-controlled system for different kind of devices.
The computer-controlled system must be capable at the first stage to control three or four devices, but the interface card should be capable to have sixteen outputs and eight inputs.
The inputs could be sensors for controlling the outputs automatically or any other kind of sensors (e.g. thermometer, infrared) . Using an appropriate software in one of the following languages, Pascal, Fortran, Basic, Visual Basic, could do all these.
In this project, after examining different techniques of interfacing, I selected the best method, which was the development of an interface card. The schematic designs for the interfacing card and the schematic of the external card were produced and tested to see if they operated properly. At the last stage, some other diagnostics tests were made to investigate the proper operation of the software.
The "PC control of room equipment" idea, has been conceived having in mind that computers day by day become more useful and soon will enter every house if they haven't already done! Automating almost everything, and making life more comfortable is one thing that I had in mind when I was decided to make this project.
Furthermore, the possibility of using remote control to control all these, made the whole project more interesting.