The Smart Buildings Compass is a guide that leads you through the jungle of smart building products, solutions and services. Building technologies focus on people: They offer us a wide range of options for shaping our lives individually, with comfort and security. This involves much more than just technical “gimmicks.” We consider smart building technology...
Smart (or intelligent) is the name given to systems that can process digital data, derive information from it and forward it to connected systems for further use. In terms of building technologies, this is understood to mean learning systems that adapt automatically. They adjust their behavior to the environment, such as the needs of the...
The smart home control center is the heart of a smart home – it’s where all the information comes together. It controls the intelligent systems that are networked with it and issues commands to them so that a wide variety of work and tasks can be automated and run without human intervention. Synonyms for “smart...
Also called detectors, sensors measure certain conditions (e.g. temperatures) and forward them to the information center connected to it (e.g. smart home center). There, this information is processed and commands based on it (e.g. control of the heating) are issued to the technical devices. The sensor is also understood as a component/auxiliary that detects and...
Voice control is the transmission of commands to technical devices by voice. Examples include voice assistants such as Siri or Alexa, which can already be used with a wide range of devices. Voice control is playing an increasingly important role, especially in the operation of smartphones and tablets. The devices already have the corresponding function...
A system is understood to be an ordered totality of tangible or intangible objects that are interconnected and interact with each other. Systems have certain properties and characteristics. Depending on the area, the term is understood very differently. There are many different types of systems, including biological, technical, organizational, physical, logical, and mathematical.One way to...
Direct current (abbreviated DC), refers to an electrical charge flow in which the charge carriers flow exclusively in one direction. The so-called technical current direction is based on charge carriers flowing from the positive pole to the negative pole. This definition is historical. In fact, in metallic conductors, the negatively charged electrons cause the charge...
Fossil fuels include crude oil, natural gas, hard coal and lignite. These energy sources were formed many millions of years ago from dead plants and animals and today often lie deep beneath the earth’s surface. To obtain energy from them, the substances are usually burned. This process releases the environmentally harmful carbon dioxide (CO2), which...
Remote control describes the possibility of targeted control or influence on devices machines or other equipment over a certain distance. The control signals can be transmitted mechanically, hydraulically, pneumatically, electrically or electronically. As a rule, one speaks of a remote control when the device to be operated is not located in the same housing as...
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