Building Automation EcosystemDIEM-BA

Tivit Business Seminar12.4.2011

Mikael Latvala

CTO

There Corporation

Problems in Current Home Automation Systems

1. Home control systems are too complicated and/or cumbersome

– High learning curve products made to engineers by engineers

– Small displays and buttons

– Bad documentation

2. Too many communication technologies

– Zwave, X-10, LonWorks, CEBus, ZigBee, M-bus, BACnet, I-wire, KNX, Bluetooth, etc.

– No interoperability between technologies

3. Too many brains to control single house

– How many different control nodes one needs or can learn to use

4. One-size-fits-all solution

– Home owner must pay for features that he is not going to use

– Very expensive solution

5. Too many industry consortiums to define the semantics

– UPnP, IGRS, DLNA, SPIA, Home Gateway Initiative, NMRP, etc.

6. No inexpensive solution to add intelligence to devices

– BOM is critical when targeting mass market

Solution = New Ecosystem

MotionDetector Door

Sensor

Devices(sensors, actuators)

Device control, data processing,

validation, storage,notifications,

ThereGate

Presence Monitor

Intelligent Building Automation Services

Device utilization,and value addition

BinarySwitch

Temperature Sensor

HomeSecurity

EnergyWatch

MeterReader

Scenes

TechnologyAdapters

Web browser

Web browser

Web browser

Control application

Control Nodes

Device management and control

There Services

Software updates , alarms and remote access

Under the hood of ThereGate

Hardware (TG800Z, TG800GZ)

Base Platform

ThereCore® RemoteAccess

ThereWare ®

ThereSDK

ThereCore API

Linux POSIX API

Firmware (CFE, Z-Wave, PIC)

SoftwareManagement

ThereGatePlatform

MeterReader

Switch

ThereCore Framework

Home Energy Management Demo

Partners-Mr Electrix-VTT-There Corporation

Building Monitoring and Reporting Service Demo

Partners-YIT- Mr Electrix-There Corporation

Thank You!mikael.latvala@therecorporation.com