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Brief feature description
Home automation systems usually are made to support a proprietary protocol, or standard system like KNX, ModBus, EIB, ZWave, X10, Â or others.
But how can we manage the interactions between all systems?
That’s what this software wants to care about, give a simple instrument to let users and system integrators to define a new level of building intelligence freedom.
Why do you need it?
Usually adding logic to a building became a pain for the client and the system integrator, because it needs expensive experts to work around the needs.
This software gives you the opportunity to add amazing logic to a building with really few knowledges and it gives you the freedom to makeyourself changes to follow the client needs during the life of the building.
Also the “smart” client can make quick changes to the system without the need of an expert.
How does it work?
The system is made with a visual editor that gives you the possibility to connect components each other.
Each component can send and receive messages through the connection and it can act based on it’s configuration.
We already have done many useful components and other people can made them free or under payment plugins by us, by the manufacturer or by other users.
An axample: we can use the sunrise and sunset components to control the night lamp and start the irrigation of the garden.
Palette of objects
Timer
Sunrise / Sunset
This component outputs a new message when the day changes from one state to another. You can take decisions based on this events, for example turning off an external light when sunrise is going on.The necessary information are taken from a free internet service, in this way you can save money avoiding to buy a real light sensor and the time to mount and configure it. Details
 Garden
This component gives you the freedom to connect pumps, valves and humidity sensors to your garden. For example, by internet it can controll the weather of the next day. So automatically it decides to irrigate or not the garden or how much water to use.
You can also use the garden component to controll your indoor garden, watering the plants only when they are thirsty, tourning on supplemental lights based on how much natural sunlight is received, and allerting you if the temperature drops belove a plant-healthy level.
Details
SMS
SMS can be sent on special events, the good thing is that you don’t need any SIM card or special device. They are sent using internet connection using a low cost messaging service or we can use special hardware to let the system work without internet connection.Someone is ringing the bell of your house and you are away? You receive a sms, so you can connect immediately with your home and talk with people directly from your car. Details

Now your building can talk with you when it is necessary. Details
GOOGLE DOCS

GOOGLE CALENDAR

Heating / Cooling
This is the core of energy savings, so we have to manage it carefully. Each room or office should be heated only when it is necessary. We can use cheap temperature sensors instead of expensive thermostats and we can manage the behaviour of each room easly. Using the PID control this component can receive the setpoints form the thermostat component and a sensor to define how to manage the heating on a room.Thermostat
Control the temperature of each room of your house will give you a energy saving but it will be expensive to buy many thermostat and a pain to program them when needed.
With this component you can fix all this problems mounting only sensors and let RaspLogic to control the heating of each room.
Define the temperature curve need few seconds.
SIRI
LOG


Audio/Video SYSTEM

You can use google calendar to start a video recording of a channel.
CODE
Often you need to compare inputs values to take decisions, or to elaborate an input to define how to control something. Manage all the needed cases with a visual interface is very hard so we prefer to give to the user a way to write some lines of code to get the job done quickly. It needs a very few knowledges for normal tasks. For example you can define that your garden RGB lamp sets a color based on tomorrow weather for Red, humidity sensor for Blue, and temperature for Green. For more info check the examples pages.Real World – ILEVIA
Using product of Ilevia, we can connect to all the sensors, switches and peripherals connected to EVE, read informations and control them with our logic.
They already support KNX, Modbus, EIB (Vimar), BTicino all together and other protocols are coming.
EVE works on any pc using a linux virtual machine, it can use a certified box, or in the next future it will be available also on raspberry.
Everything can be controlled using Iphone, Ipad, Android, Linux, Windows, OSX.
You can check a wonderful demo here
LEAF
Ilevia also made a system the can be attached to a photovoltaic system to check the power generated, detect problems, report the production during the day, month, years. We can connect our logic to this system, LEAF, to define when and where the produced energy must be used in our home.
If you like this project and you need more information, or you are a manufacturer of devices and you like the idea to let them to be controlled by our logic system, feel free to contact us to info@rasplogic.com