2007-09-11
'SmartHouse Code of Practice' from CENELEC examines all aspects of 'smart home' design - standards are not omitted:
CENELEC's 'SmartHouse Code of Practice' .PDF document in this VoltiBULLETIN looks at all aspects of so-called 'smart home' design and installation from the electrical/electronic and cabling points of view, including relevant standards.
Abstract of the Preface
This Code of Practice is intended to provide a valuable reference for anyone involved in creating a SmartHouse, a house that has intelligent systems, intelligent equipment and networks and has services and applications that use the SmartHouse intelligence.
It has been put together from the efforts of a large number of industry experts. In order to cope with the very broad scope of the Code of Practice and the many stakeholders that were involved, it was seen as desirable that the document should be subdivided into Sections each of which covers a particular market segment in the service supply chain of services and applications to and within the SmartHouse.
Each Section has been constructed by a Section Editor who is an expert in the area of the section and overall editing and management of the project has been the task of an overall Managing Editor. Each Section Editor has had the assistance of a dedicated group of experts and around 160 experts have been involved in these working groups. Overall, there have been 4 Open Forums/Workshops attended by an average of 65 Experts for the first 3. Some 325 experts have been involved in the review process. The 10 section editors have worked incredibly hard with their experts to deliver the current text. The time recorded by the experts now adds up to more than 600 man days.
There have been numerous disagreements as to what should be in the text and what left out. These have been resolved although some hard decisions have had to be made. There is now agreement on the text and all the comments received have been resolved and put into the document Because there is significant variability in the scope of the sections, some sections deal with hard physical facts whereas some deal with the objectives and needs of stakeholders such as the consumer and the service provider. Other sections deal with entities where the market is still evolving and therefore the hard physical facts are not readily available. Therefore, while there has been considerable attention to ensuring consistency, there are areas where there is overlap, because the sections lie side by side on the service supply chain, and some sections look at similar issues from different perspectives.
An example of this is the way in which we have used the term "cluster". In each section where it is used it describes a broadly market segment grouping but is used in a slightly different way and although the market segments are broadly similar, in some sections the market segments are sliced more thinly.
Overall, it is considered that this document will provide a most helpful document for the stakeholder of the SmartHouse market. It is hoped that the Code of Practice will bring understanding of the issues and in particular allow the system designer of the SmartHouse to work more effectively and with more understanding of the wider issues.
For a preview of the document please see slideshow below.
Please click on the link below to see all of this comprehensive document. Please note that it is a large file - over 6MB!
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