HOME AUTOMATION:
 
 

Overview:
 

Blaze home automation simplifies all the technology in your home offering the ultimate lifestyle of comfort and convenience. Eliminates the need to walk from room to room to adjust drapes, lights, temperature, and audio/video components. Whether from an easy-to-use color touch panel, remote or a customized keypad, total control is always at your fingertips. Lets you indulge in luxury with a single touch of a button. Imagine with just a single touch the lights dim, the shades close, the plasma TV turns on and your favorite movie begins. Imagine your window treatments are programmed to adjust at pre-set times to reduce glare and protect delicate fabrics and fine art from harmful direct sunlight. Imagine at night the hallway lights automatically illuminate as you walk by.
This system is responsible for the following activities in the Home:
  1. Controls Lighting, Fans, Air-conditioning, Motorized Window blinders, Appliances, lawn Irrigation control, Audio-Video system etc…
  2. Generation of Scenario / Mood Lighting, control of Window blinders and other appliances as per the predefined schedules or Real Time control of the same etc…
  3. PIR motion sensor based Lighting control with field configurable timeout.
  4. Controlling the Diesel Generator if there is no Grid Power and under solar power drain out.
Blaze’s Security Solution combined with Home Automation:


Security system is a specialized field dealing with specified requirements of homes in the usage of easy-to-use technologies for the security of residents. Home security is top priority of all concerned. Today there are plenty of home security products to ensure your family’s security completely. Home security is the most significant one for every homeowner either in an individual house or an apartment.


The basic form of a security system starts with a control panel operated by a keypad / remote key fob and various sensors connected to the Control Panel from different locations throughout the home. Depending on the application, the alarm output may be local or remote or a combination

The local alarm systems sound sirens and / or alarms to alert nearby residents or people about intrusion. While remote alarm systems calls the owner and / or Police department through public communication systems. Some systems have a redundant feature which enables them to communicate in case any one of the channels of communication is blocked or destroyed. 


In this touch panel, we provide various components like; it can support both hardwired and wireless technologies. It has buttons like arm, disarm, in-house, vacation, away, medical emergency and panic. Below is the very brief description of all the buttons.

Arm Mode:

This enables the security system to the entire home. When the home is in arm state then the sensors will trigger when someone enters the home without the knowledge of the owner. It also intimates the user by switching on the hooter and it has the facility of autodialing to eight different numbers at the time of emergency alerting everyone around.

Disarm Mode:

This disables the security system in the home. This is set when the user is in ideal state.

In House Mode:

When the house is set to in-house mode, the user can change the status of different floors to arm, disarm or in-house mode. If  the particular floor is set to arm state then all the sensors will trigger and alerts the user in case of emergency in that floor. When the floor is set to disarm state then the security system in that floor will be disabled.
When the floor is in in-house mode, only few sensors like gas leak, glass break, etc., will be triggered and alerts the user.

Vacation Mode:

The total home will be in arm state when the user enables this mode.

Away Mode:

The user can set this mode when he is away from home. This will enable all the sensors present in the home and the total home is in arm state.

Medical Emergency:

In this mode, the system autodials to the nearest hospitals and to relatives in case of any medical emergency alerting the people.

Panic Mode:

When the panic mode is set, the entire home will be under emergency state and the user can operate this with the help of touch panel or keyfobe.

Block Diagram for Home Automation:



Lighting Control:
 


Lighting controls provide an aesthetic and highly flexible enhancement to your home’s decor and also offer the potential for significant energy savings.
 
The ability to control the amount of light in a room can reflect your style and allow you to enjoy your home to its fullest potential. Varying the amount of light can add beauty and make a small room look open and spacious or a large room appears more intimate and inviting. When considering the lighting options for your home, you have to take into account the types of activities that will occur in each room and the sort of atmosphere that you wish to create for the perfect ambiance.


Blaze works with number of lighting control systems which operate either as stand alone or as part of a main Home Control System. Lighting control systems can replace multiple traditional dimmer switches to provide a simplified single button control to access to pre-programmed scenes for a number of uses for a room, whether it is relaxing, entertaining, watching TV or reading.
Our innovative technology represents effortless control of your home’s indoor and outdoor lighting and other powered features. The smart timer adjusts automatically to illuminate selected lights extending your control to both indoor and outdoor lights and more. 



Appliance control:

You have remotes to control TV, DVD player, car alarm etc...  But what about other appliances at home? Wouldn’t it be great if you had a wireless remote to control all of the appliances in your home? With the Appliance Control, you can! With the touch of a button, turn on and off lamps without moving an inch, start your popcorn popper on movie night or coffee pot in the morning without even getting out of bed and more..

The motivation is to facilitate the users to automate their homes having ubiquitous access. Blaze has developed a panel of ICs that address the appliance control market for all of today’s major and small appliances. By combining our high efficiency solutions with our large product portfolio, designers can implement any of their new ideas... The system provides availability due to development of a low cost system. 

Home Appliance Control System can be accessed by a remote device such as mobile phone or a palm-top to allow home owner to control, monitor and coordinate home appliances from up to 100 feet away, through walls, doors, floors and windows. Essentially, you can control any appliance in your home from anywhere in the house with the touch of a button. It has many advantages such as remote controlling of home appliances, availability and ease of users. 
  1. Saves time
  2. Save money (Long run)
  3. Self Maintenance
  4. Security
  5. Makes life easy
  6. It is a system which is controlled by a remote system such as a cell phone, and controls home appliances such as VCR
  7. In case of emergency such as fire, the user or an organization such as Fire Department should be notified.
  8. Also, Appliance Control System has a database of information about the users and appliances.
 


Irrigation control system:
 


An irrigation control system which provides a watering cycle for a number of individual watering zones under the control of a timing device, and according to which the time interval assigned to the individual watering zones may be programmed, that is to say, the on and off times for fluid flow in each of the zones may be independently and flexibly varied over the widest possible range. Apart from controlling the water flow, your irrigation control system can also be programmed to water your garden during specific times in the day or night.

The unpredictable climatic changes make it difficult and time-consuming to maintain the beautiful, colorful garden you love so much. Nevertheless, don’t dismay because Blaze provides solution consisting of innovation technology, commonly known as irrigation control system that allows accurate control of water, energy and chemicals while responding to the environmental changes and development stages of the crop.


Drape Control:
 

Drape controls gives you total control on your environment at your fingertips. Conveniently, you can adjust all the drapes and blinds in the house or around the conference room with the press of a button. Close the drapes at night or adjust the screen during the day to protect furniture and artwork from harmful direct sunlight. Block direct sunlight during the summer and allow natural light in during the winter to keep rooms comfortable and reduce energy costs throughout the year.

Blaze Automation has designed stand-alone drapes control system that can conveniently adjust all the lighting and drapes in your home with the press of a button or even without a press by touch less mode, in addition to other automation devices and create the desired ambience for any occasion. This system is perfect for residential, commercial and hotel applications which put total control of your environment at your fingertips. 


Utility Metering:



"If you cannot measure it, you cannot improve it." — Lord Kelvin



How much does it cost to leave your TV on all day? What about turning your air conditioning 1 degree cooler? Which uses more power every month — your dishwasher or your washing machine? Is your household more or less energy efficient than similar homes in your neighborhood?

 It’s nearly impossible to make informed choices about electricity. This is a problem but also a huge opportunity for us all to save money and helps the environment by reducing our power usage. Studies show that access to your household's personal energy information is likely to save you 5–15% on your monthly bill.

At Blaze we're helping enable a future where access to personal electricity information helps everyone make smarter energy choices. This is far better than having paper bills that reveal nothing but how much we have used and what we need to pay for that.


Home Surveillance and Security System

Now a day’s home security and surveillance systems have become a crucial appliances in securing home. These systems are capable of monitoring the entire house even though how large it may be. It can even give minute details like who is present in which part of the house. This system is responsible for monitoring, recording and alerting the users in case of the any potential emergency.
The following are the responsibilities of this system.

  • Perimeter security through Solar Power Fencing, Home Security through Burglar Alarm System.
  • Real Time door/ window status indicator.
  • CCTV based surveillance system through out the perimeter of the Home.
  • Smoke and Gas leak Alarm systems with Automatic gas Valve cutoff.

Features:
  1. Deters Intruders from intrusion through perimeter wall.
  2. Intimates the owner about the intruder information through Home Automation console to user through call or sms.
  3. Redundant communication channels in case of telephone lines being cut.

Visitor Management System:
 


In most organizations and homes today, Visitor management consists of visitors scribbling their name in a paper book. Our unique Visitor Management System assists you in professionalizing the manner in which you welcome your visitors. The Visitor Management Module allows you to welcome and manage your incoming and outgoing visitors' whether they are planned or not. This software is a complete Visitor Management service to improve the efficiency, productivity, and customer satisfaction of your businesses. This system helps in keeping track of users visiting the home and also allowing entry access based on pre-fed information.

This system is responsible for the following services:
  1. Video Door phone front panel integration to the Touch panels through the Central Server.
  2. Front Main Door Lock/ Unlock mechanism integration with the Touch panels.
  3. Biometric Finger print based Door Unlocking for the Valid or pre-fed users and control of the Door Strike.


Intelligent HVAC (Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning System):
 


Heating ventilation and air conditioning systems provide great comfort but consume a lot of power. Buildings account for one third of energy consumption in the world most of which is used in HVAC process. Our Intelligent HVAC system can operate economically consuming the least power possible at the same time providing the best ventilation and air conditioning.
Heating ventilation and air conditioning systems provide great comfort but consume a lot of power. Buildings account for one third of energy consumption in the world most of which is used in HVAC process. Our Intelligent HVAC system can operate economically consuming the least power possible at the same time providing the best ventilation and air conditioning.

Blaze provides the following features:

Time Scheduling: The system adjusts ventilation and air conditioning based on pre-fed timing data.

New Energy Efficient Equipment: Heat pump air conditioners, solar energy heaters, and inverter control systems use micro processor based control and significantly reduce energy consumption.

Energy source shutdown: Depending of the season shutdown the energy source to facilitate energy saving.

Economy Cycle outside air control: Use outside air for cooling whenever possible thus minimizing energy consumption during the refrigeration cycle. 



MULTI-ZONE AUDIO:


Would you like to listen to music throughout your home? Imagine listening to different music sources in every room of your house simultaneously, or being able to have the entire house listening to one source for all of your parties and events. With multi-zone audio systems you can listen to different music in different rooms from difference sources and control it with a key pad.  Blaze offers simple multi-zone audio systems with full controllability of CD players, iPods and satellite radio.
Distributed audio systems were developed as a means to improve the quality of life for true music enthusiasts.  In its most simplistic form, distributed audio systems take the input from a single source (like a CD player) and distribute the sound in to multiple rooms (also known as Zones) around the house.  Each zone usually has an independent volume control wired into the wall to give each user the ability to make volume adjustments. 
 
  • The perfect digital music system for bars, restaurants, taverns, hotels, even smart homes! Using multiple inexpensive sound cards or mixers with USB inputs, you can have songs playing to multiple systems in different rooms, all at the same time with ease. Low CPU and memory usage, fully multi-threaded, so no skipping. Switch sound outputs on the fly, and more. 
  • Multi Zone Audio uses a standard Windows interface, so any employee can use and run the system.
  • Multi Zone Audio can also be a very useful tool for Mobile DJs. Those who do not do scratch type mixing will find it an easy to use alternative to dual deck type software mixers, and the ability to have six songs queued at once, makes it even better!



Perimeter Security system / Solar power fencing system:


Imagine how nice it would be to have a Perimeter Security System which can monitor every corner of the perimeter and can alert the user about the location of the breach in real time.
Perimeter Security Systems are now becoming a necessity for monitoring big house hold installations. These act in conjunction with indoor security systems and complement them. Perimeter Security systems are capable of monitoring the entire perimeter of an installation and report any breaches.
Our Perimeter Security system is designed to run efficiently consuming the minimum amount of power possible. It has been designed to make use of solar power where ever possible. Our sensors are capable of monitoring event he smallest corner.
Features:
  • Usage of Solar power whenever possible makes it highly power efficient.
  • Intimates the owner about the intrusion information through Home Automation console.
  • It can also send information regarding the intrusion to user via mobile or alarms.
This System is perfect for
  • Highly sensitive government and military installations.
  • Large buildings and Community monitoring.
 
 
 

 

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