Build Your Own Smart Home with Ecava IGX
用Ecava IGX构建自己的智能家居
How It Started
Home automation has grown rapidly in these days, as well as plenty of smart home installation service providers popping out to meet the market demand. Nevertheless, there are still some people who preferred to do-it-themselves. Since more people have been exposed to automation knowledge, self developing is definitely possible. Thus, for those who are able to DIY, most probably they wouldn’t want to spend more to hire others to install for them.
如今，家庭自动化发展迅速，大量智能家居安装服务供应商纷纷涌现，以满足市场需求。尽管如此，还是有一些人更喜欢自己动手。由于越来越多的人接触到自动化知识，自我发展是绝对可能的。因此，对于那些能够自己动手的人来说，他们很可能不想花更多的钱去雇佣别人来为他们安装。
Mr. JA from Poland has been contacting Ecava to express his interest in building his own smart home. He works for the construction industry, but had a computer science background from study. The idea of turning his house into a smart home was planned as a hobby. What he was actually looking for was a SCADA software which he will install on his home computer, and from there it can connect to a PLC and perform some simple home automation processes. According to him, the starting intention was to monitor temperatures and garden watering.
来自波兰的JA先生一直在与Ecava联系，以表达他对建造自己的智能家居的兴趣。他在建筑业工作，但有计算机专业背景。把他的房子改造成智能住宅的想法是作为一种爱好来计划的。他实际上正在寻找一个SCADA软件，他将安装在他的家用计算机上，从那里它可以连接到一个PLC，并执行一些简单的家庭自动化过程。据他说，最初的目的是监测温度和花园浇水。
Smart Home DIY with Ecava IGX
Among all the well known automation software, he picked Ecava IGX SCADA. He stated the below as reasons:
在所有著名的自动化软件中，他选择了Ecava IGX SCADA。他列举了以下理由：
非常好的配置界面，易于设计
人机界面以网页形式(可通过web浏览器访问)
同时通过Modbus和SNMP进行通信
简单的数据库配置附带图形和警报
采用SVG作为人机界面图形
Other than the main workstation (a.k.a. the home computer), Mr. JA also wished to control and monitor his home on both his and his family’s mobile phones, tablets and PCs. His basic smart home idea can be referred in an example of illustration diagram as shown below.
除了主工作站(又称家用电脑)，JA先生还希望通过他和他家人的移动电话、平板电脑和个人电脑来控制和监控他的家。他的基本智能家居理念可以参考一个例子说明，如下图所示。
Basically, the control/monitor shall include:
lights,
roller-blinds,
fans,
- temperatures in the rooms,
- windows’ open/close states,
基本上，控制/监视器应包括：
Mr. JA also expressed his wish for IGX SCADA to have the ability to minimize to system tray. The good news for him is that Ecava technical team has developed and released the service module in past year. This module allows him to turn his SCADA project into a Windows service, which can still run in background even after closing the IGX server window.
JA先生还表示希望IGX SCADA能够将系统托盘最小化。对他来说，好消息是Ecava技术团队在过去的一年中已经开发并发布了服务模块。该模块允许他将SCADA项目转换为Windows服务，即使在关闭IGX服务器窗口之后，该服务仍然可以在后台运行。
The Hardware / Software:
PLC (Programmable Logic Controllers): Fatek PLC
Protocol: Modbus TCP/IP and SNMP
SCADA: Ecava IGX
IO tags: 512 tags
Remote client: 2 clients
Service module: Yes
