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Just four years ago, the company's most promising technology, C-Bus, was confident in the markets of lighting control, home automation and building management systems, while climate control was far from the developers' top priority. However, after the acquisition by the electrical engineering giant Schneider Electric, the technology's prospects were recognized, and a steady trend towards comprehensive growth emerged. At first, devices for working with analog sensors and drives, IR transmitters, a multi-room audio system, and other devices that went beyond the previous functionality were released.
The latest interesting new product is the freely programmable Pascal Automation Controller, which occupies four modules on a DIN rail and offers an astronomical clock and two fully configurable RS232 ports for control. It is programmed using the free PICED (Programming Interface for C-Bus Enabled Devices) software, which has functionality comparable to expensive software products. According to many, this program currently has no equal in terms of ease of settings and programming speed, for example, climate modes. The last weak point in the C-Bus climate line turned out to be somewhat outdated thermostats, which, despite the ease of settings, are much inferior to LON devices in flexibility.
The new C-Bus thermostats have five relay outputs on board and the ability to use the entire address space of the bus control devices (including any number of RS232 outputs of PAC controllers or IR transmitters mentioned above).
5070THB controls the climate in one zone, allows you to change the temperature mode «on the fly», including remotely, i.e. from other C-Bus devices.
The 5070THP has four climate zones (plus a “common zone”), each of which can be controlled locally or remotely, or the temperature can be monitored via a bright LCD screen. Remote control of the thermostats is best achieved via DLT wall switches with screens or C-Bus LCD touch panels.
At least three new Clipsal Integrated Systems announcements are expected before the end of the year.
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Clipsal C-Bus is an “intelligent” bus system, wired or wireless, connected by Cat 5e data cable and 36V DC power or radio frequency.
– There is no central processor, distributed intelligence is present in each device.
– Modular system, expandable and backward compatible, allowing new devices and functions to be added without reconnection.
– Communications in the system are two-way, transparent, broadcast.
– There are software and hardware interfaces with leading industry standards.
– Reliable, cost-effective, easy to install and operate system.
– Energy saving solution approved by governments of several countries.
– Clipsal C-Bus – an open standard from Clipsal Integrated Systems
– C-Bus can operate both independently and as part of a higher-level protocol, such as BACnet.
– High reliability of equipment due to the use of “Distributed Intelligence” and completely non-volatile memory in devices
– Infinite expandability – 16 million controlled zones, TCP/IP connection of segments.
– A wide range of equipment with high functionality, including freely programmable controllers
– Free software includes C-Bus Toolkit for programming all devices, C-Gate OPC server with an open protocol, PICED for programming panels and PASCAL controllers.
– This technology differs from traditional connections of engineering systems and from automation systems based on controllers.
– C-Bus allows you to implement “intelligent” building systems with a high degree of interactivity and interaction with building occupants. |
