Complete control system and visualization of a luxury family house in Bratislava, Slovakia

At the end of the year 2009, the construction of a new luxury family house in the city of Bratislava, Slovakia was finished. The wiring in the house is based on the iNELS® intelligent electrical installation system. Full scale visualization is based on the Reliance SCADA/HMI system and includes alarms, SMS messages and historical data.

The electronics of the system is housed in three distribution boxes. The main distribution box contains the Tecomat Foxtrot CP-1004 PLC. The two secondary distribution boxes contain the peripheral I/O devices of the iNELS® system. The Reliance 4 runtime software runs on a mini PC together with the CCTV system. The visualization is displayed on the 15" LCD touchscreen located on the wall in the dining room.

The control program running in the Foxtrot PLC was developed using the Mosaic integrated development environment. The Reliance system provides a modern and user friendly graphical interface. The visualization is designed to help the users control and monitor the following features:

illumination of interior and exterior of the house with relation to twilight switch, PIR movement detectors and the security system; centralized control of interior and exterior lights and garden illumination
control of air-conditioning and central heating (radiators and floor heating)
centralized window blinds control with the link to the weather station and the security system
entrance gate control
integration of security and fire protection systems and the CCTV camera system
monitoring of the HVAC system (the Stiebel Eltron air-water heat pump, solar water heating, electric boiler, Stiebel Eltron LWZ air ventilation system and air-conditioning via cooled ceilings)
monitoring of a pump extracting cooling water from a well, wastewater cleaning system and drinking water supply
configuring GSM communicator settings
access to Internet Explorer, Outlook Express and the CCTV surveillance system
program simulating the presence of persons by random switching of house lights
visualization can be accessed over the Internet via Web Client (Reliance 4 Control Server is installed on the server side)