【 Weak current College 】 how to DIY smart home

Step one: determine demand

Smart home not only intelligent system design and installation of the product, also is the embodiment of personal style, in the smart home design before you have to understand your preferences and styles; and took note of the actual situation with residential and family in intelligent input of funds available.

We stress again that domestic intelligence is also a process that is not possible in one step, depending on your situation system design, choose the installation step by step.

Have the energy of the readers can make use of this article and other specialty media, professional guidance, hands-on Web site design and install your own intelligent home system, not only can choose their favorite products, can also be familiar with some intelligent system, easy to use and maintain in the future, at the same time as the need to install the appropriate vendor pays the cost of installation, or you can save a lot of money.

Due to the intelligent home involves many industries: Electronics, computer, communication, automation, building decoration, etc., the ordinary users are not likely to learn professional knowledge in these areas, therefore, with the exception of a few enthusiasts to own from the agreement, software, system design point of doing smart home, most users are designated under the finished module parts to assemble, and PC DIY some similar-most people are choosing products with the motherboard, CPU, hard drive, monitor, video card, sound card, keyboard, mouse, very few people able (or willing) to assemble complete monitor or mouse. So we will not be difficult to analysis out smart DIY core--in accordance with the General design requirements, select the appropriate modular components for integration.

Determine the needs of the most important thing is not how advanced, intelligent products to luxurious, but rather how the intelligent home system and your home environment organic blends from the home environment of domestic intelligence system is just a pile of cables and module connectors, terminals and accessories, controllers, and other "junk". Smart home must have a personality, but also to embody every home owner's style.

Intelligence is not an isolated part of the it needs and home decoration of other part, to coordinate and effectively. We hope everyone in the home renovations, taking into account every detail, from home intelligent perspective, rather than vice versa, to intelligent system and to change the room structure layout, family living, intelligent services for modern life, not to dominate your life.

Well, there is an objective psychological preparation, we can go.

Step 2: background information prepared

In the smart home decoration, learn some relevant getting started knowledge is necessary, you can use the following channels for a more comprehensive study and master:

Newspapers and magazines. Abroad, there are many professional smart home magazines such as "electronichouse homeautomation," "," "TecHomeBuilder" but it also does not have a country the smart home magazine, but you can choose the closest security, networking, audio, home of professional magazines, because it includes a smart home security and Automation control of main products, compare good the security & automation, HC — the security technology market "," computer network world.

Industry information. Want to involve an understanding of related standards, including the home wiring standards, security standards, standard specification for electrical facilities, family house decoration quality approval standard, etc.

The Exchange Web site. And professional company technicians or have special interest friends exchanges, understanding smart home products performance, stability, and other factors. Especially recommended is the smart home portal site---China smart home network www.smarthomecn.com and China intelligent network http://www.cnsmart.net, comprehensive overview of the smart home technologies, products and DIY approach, and has the online Exchange Forum sections, is a family of DIY.

Step 3: understanding the product market

In fact, in many construction materials, home decoration, hardware, electrical appliances, electrical audio market, computer network market has some smart home products sales. The opportunity you can to the market to change might also be able to find some system products and accessories.

Without a centralized purchasing locations this to DIY users make more demands, needs its own initiative to understand more product information and make a comparative analysis, in order to configure the high cost performance, suitable for the home environment, in line with the individual features of intelligent home system.

The second step of preparation there is a product market understanding of the process, in addition to this, some smart buildings, security, digital communities of the exhibition and seminar are also not to miss, here are the latest products and solutions, and you are lucky, you can spot buy some good system accessories.

Understanding product should also be concerned about the price, unless you only care about features and don't care about the price. Stages in product selection, find out the required system products generally price range, in particular at the time of purchase, would give priority to select factory, shop, second smart home products professional agent vendors.

Step 4: prepare design information

These materials include:

Residential floor plan (including detailed dimensions and functions);

Decoration design (including the placing of electrical equipment);

Light, strong electric system diagram;

Most concerned with special requirements;

Step 5: Learn about supporting environment (where the intelligent Community system for the design and use)

When you full set out to design intelligent home, you must fully understand the community'sIntelligent design and installation, unless you are a sole of a Villa, otherwise do not save or delay the work. Because if you do not understand the community use of systems and products, the system repeats the installation, the product does not fit, community management for smart home products have other special requirements which led to the final installation difficulties, if you know well in advance and obtain their help to make your design can make the best use of resources.
Step six: System design and product selection

OK, now the confidence up, and you can begin to design their own smart home. We will use several examples to show you how to design intelligent domestic environment.

For a large number of intelligent home system products, whether it better to choose which is also home to many deserves careful consideration.

In the entire selection of intelligent home system, you will often hear "family control of the host". The exact terms, a complete intelligent home system does need a whole system for control of the host family "home control". But for many DIY a family, but do not have to start buying. Two reasons:

① currently on the market and do not have a leading home control host, so the product mix will have many difficulties in the host system and other systems required for common operations on the various systems. For new intelligent home system of the DIY user is indeed some difficulty.

② domestic control host costs relatively expensive, at the start of the design and installation of intelligent home system should be cautious, so as not to spend money to buy things you don't need.

We recommended practice is to start on some subsystem products in use for some time according to own actual situation and then select the "home control host" system because I recommended each subsystem are self-contained and can be connected, when the conditions are ripe for control of the host system will connect them effective, unified interface. So the final installation of the system to try to meet your needs.

Planning steps include:

① first design configuration the following subsystems: home wiring system, home local area networks and broadband networks, telephone communication systems, home office systems, video intercom (Bell) system, intelligent lighting control, home security systems, home entertainment system.

② design configuration and installation in conjunction with the community of intelligent subsystems: community alarm (alarm points, or interface), third table CC system, community property management system, community broadband value-added services (online education, online games, VOD, online shopping, etc.).

③ conditional user or product comparison on the various subsystems to understand the user can select the home control hosts.

④ can choose to install other family of intelligent devices and products: the whole family central air-conditioning, kitchen and bathroom products, environmental control products.

Step 7: install, configure, and maintain

Well, the whole system design, product selection is complete, the product and accessories also purchased. Necessary to remind that we should pay special attention to your product contains installation and maintenance services, if manufacturers or distributors with installation and commissioning services of course the best, if not should get as much information — technical manuals, user manuals.