Why Home Automation?

Home Automation provides added comfort, convenience, enhances your security and produces enviromental savings in all your home systems which you automate. Home automation can control all aspects of your life but with you in total control of how much.

Why choose MB Electrical as your automation provider?

• MB Electrical, combined with Clipsal C-BUS supply the very best in home automation packages. We understand that Home Automation systems should never be seen but should work seamlessly in the background. All our Home Automation packages are designed to intergrate together and will work today

What is Clipsal C-Bus?

Introduction

C-Bus is a microprocessor-based control and management system for Buildings and Homes.  It is used to control lighting and other electrical services such as pumps, Audio Visual Devices, Motors, etc. Whether simple ON/OFF control of a lighting circuit, or variable (analogue) type control, such as electronic dimmable fluorescent ballasts, C-Bus can be used to easily control virtually any type of electrical load.

To ensure fast and reliable operation, each C-Bus device has its own in-built microprocessor and “intelligence”, allowing units to be individually programmed.

C-Bus uses a patented method for updating the status of units.  This method does not require a central computer or central controller to handle databases or lookup tables to operate.  The status of each C-Bus unit is initiated at specific time intervals, without the need of a central controller.  Each device is allocated a specific time frame to broadcast its status, synchronised by a self-generated system clock pulse.  This allows large amounts of data to be transmitted in a very small time frame, effectively and reliably on the network, leading to low processing overheads and low bandwidth requirements. 

Why C-Bus?

The primary reasons to use C-Bus are:

• Highly robust and reliable control system, but low cost per node.
• Wide range of tools available to allow 3rd party companies to interface to both PC based and embedded systems.
• A single C-Bus cable connection can control an unlimited number of devices.
• Ultimate flexibility in switching and control – functions can be changed, added, removed, moved, reprogrammed, at any position on the network, at any time - without any cumbersome hard-wiring.
• C-Bus is simple to install and commission.
• C-Bus can control any type of load, digital and analogue.

Simple Control

Each C-Bus device is programmed to issue and respond to the certain commands.  A virtually unlimited number of commands can be programmed into the C-Bus system.  Generally, Input Devices are programmed to issue commands, and Output Devices are programmed to execute those commands.

When a C-Bus Group Address command is issued by a C-Bus Device, any other Devices that have been programmed with that Group Address will be activated, wherever they are on the C-Bus Network. There is no need for any direct 240V connection between any C-Bus units.

Multiple Events

Single Devices can also produce multiple events.  For example, you may program an Input Switch so that the length of time the key is pressed determines what Command is issued - a short press issues an on/off command and a long press controls a dimming command.

Multiple commands do not have to control the same Output Device(s), so complex scenarios can be easily created, for example a single push button switch controlling a whole floor of a building.

Multiple Input devices can conditionally control a single Output Device, dependant on specific circumstances.  This allows multiple levels of over-ride switching and other complex control systems to be created easily.

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