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New Trends in Residential Automation

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Mechatronics for Cultural Heritage and Civil Engineering

Part of the book series: Intelligent Systems, Control and Automation: Science and Engineering ((ISCA,volume 92))

Abstract

Home automation is a promising market application and a very interesting area of research in the field of automation, where human–machine integration is a key issue. The history of home automation, however, can be traced through various phases since its inception: first, with concepts and equipment inherited from industry automation, then to a phase in which new tools were developed but problems were encountered with design, and finally to a new era where the challenge is to further explore a multidisciplinary approach that conceives of home automation as a service, with a different model for the interaction between the home and its users. In this new phase, the design challenges are quite different, as is the motivation for implementing new architectures for building and residential automation (B&RA). In this article we present a direct comparison between the last two phases of home automation, as described above, and propose a new methodology for designing B&RA systems based on an anthropocentric automation approach. A design discipline for improving integration is applied to models developed at the beginning of this century, achieving good results. This same model is then compared with a new approach, revealing new challenges that could arise in both integration and service. To better understand all of the differences, the older approach is presented along with a case study implemented in Portugal. It introduces new concepts and challenges for B&RAs in implementing sustainable houses and buildings that are also capable of generating energy—as in the urban smart grid. Another important challenge is improving integration with users in terms of service systems.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Directive 2001/91/EC from the European Parliament Council of 16 of December of 2002 on energy performance of buildings. Published in the Journal of European Communities, vol. 46, January 4, 2003.

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    INCOSE is an international institution that promotes reference models and studies in systems engineering for academia and the practitioners. The institution has established as its main objective the transformation of systems engineering to a model-based discipline. More information can be found at: www.incose.org.

  3. 3.

    Social goal has the same meaning as in systems engineering, where it denotes a common goal to which all system components contribute.

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    KAOS is an acronym that stands for Knowledge Acquisition in Automated Specification and refers to a diagrammatic schema for specification of goal-oriented requirements. A commercial tool called Objectiver was used to construct the diagrams. Here we will use a system that can transform requirements into Petri Nets also developed for some of the authors.

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    It is important to keep in mind the match between this definition and the definition of service and PSA architecture, where partial actions are related to (caused by or the responsibility of) certain agents but contribute to the process as a whole, and will deliver a final action to the end user which will generate value.

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  1. Polytechnic School, Mechatronics Department, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

    José Reinaldo Silva & Javier Martinez Silva

  2. Mechanical Engineering Department, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal

    Celina Pereira

  3. Faculty of Automation and Computer Science, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

    Camelia Avram

  4. Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

    Sergiu Dan-Stan

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Silva, J.R., Silva, J.M., Pereira, C., Avram, C., Dan-Stan, S. (2018). New Trends in Residential Automation. In: Ottaviano, E., Pelliccio, A., Gattulli, V. (eds) Mechatronics for Cultural Heritage and Civil Engineering. Intelligent Systems, Control and Automation: Science and Engineering, vol 92. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68646-2_6

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