An existing complete house control system based on the REFLEX operating system: Implementation and experiences over a period of 4 years

Author

Walther, Karsten ; Karnapke, Reinhardt ; Nolte, Joerg

Author_Institution

Brandenburg Univ. of Technol., Cottbus

fYear

2008

fDate

15-18 Sept. 2008

Firstpage

40

Lastpage

45

Abstract

Today, even small residential buildings have a number of complex electrical devices that advocate the usage of automated control systems. But currently available systems are either hard to handle or expensive. This paper describes an automated house control system that has been in use for the last 4 years. It has been built using only freely available, inexpensive hardware and the open source operating system REFLEX.

Keywords

home automation; home computing; operating systems (computers); REFLEX operating system; automated control systems; automated house control system; complete house control system; electrical devices; open source operating system; small residential buildings; Application software; Automatic control; Control systems; Flow graphs; Open source hardware; Operating systems; Production facilities; Pulse width modulation; Sensor systems; Temperature;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation, 2008. ETFA 2008. IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Hamburg

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1505-2

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1506-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ETFA.2008.4638368

Filename

4638368