Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Automation Systems

With the advancement in technology, the automation has played an important role in making our daily lives easier and our routine work convenient. In general terms, automation is the use of control systems and information technology to make the human work easier or reducing the human working effort in the production of goods and services. Medical processes such as electrocardiography or radiography and laboratory analysis of human genes, cells or tissues are carried out at much greater speed and accuracy by Automation systems . Automation has a big impact on a number of industries where it not only speed up the process of production but it also helps in maintaining accuracy during manufacturing . Communication has become easier with automation. With just a click of a button, you can instantly send and receive messages to your friends, family or other known people via e-mail. We can send and receive instant messages using different communication devices. The main advantages of automation are replacement of human operators in tasks that involve hard physical or monotonous work, performing the tasks that are beyond human capabilities of size, weight, speed, endurance, etc and replacment of humans for dangerous tasks (space, fire, volcanoes, nuclear facilities, underwater, etc).

Automation systems are also meant for security and surveillance purposes. These systems make sure that the installed security system is strong enough to stop any kind of infringement in the restricted or regulated areas. These automation systems are also used in corporate offices, shopping malls, public places like airports, railway stations, bus terminals, military establishments etc. Apart from surveillance, these systems are also used for attendance recorder, hotel locks, access control systems, fire detection and prevention system. Some of these advanced systems are:

•Smart Card Based Attendance and Access Control Systems
• Face Recognition Systems
•Vehicle Access Control Systems
•Access Control Gates and Locking system
•CCTV Surveillance Cameras
•IP cameras
•IR/ Day Night Cameras
•Conventional Fire Alarm Systems
•Addressable Fire Alarm Systems
•Fence/Perimeter Protection security systems
•Audio/Video-Door Phone security systems
•EAS(Anti Shop Lifting System)
•Smart Key Lock Management Systems for Hotels
•Global Positioning Systems
•Wired and wireless security systems

Home automations mean making appliances and devices to work in an automatic manner by controlling it remotely. The instant connectivity and remote access is availed through internet and all electronic devices in your home can be activated with the help of a secured password protected website. Home automation includes centralized control of lighting, HVAC (heating, ventilation and air conditioning) systems, appliances, integration of electrical devices and other security systems. improved convenience, comfort, energy efficiency and security. Home control automated system integrates electrical devices in a house with each other.The devices are connected through a computer network and controlled by a personal computer or allow remote access from the internet . The integration of information technology with home appliances and devices results in convenience, energy efficiency, and safety benefits. Home automation systems can be accessed over the internet no matter where you are.

Samsung Galaxy

Equipped with a beautiful and conveniently sized 7-inch display screen, the Samsung Galaxy Tab brings you the media you want and keeps you connected with anyone, anytime. Built on advanced Android 2.2 operating system and weighing at around 600 grams, you can keep in touch with people and content through 3G connectivity, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n or Bluetooth Wireless Technology 3.0. Incorporated with Adobe Flash player with a battery life of up to 13 hours and a crisp TFT-LCD display, you’re free to communicate, update, and enjoy.

With an internal storage capacity of 16 or 32 GB and microSD external expandable storage, Samsung Galaxy Tab is preloaded for instant access to a broad selection of movies and TV shows that start playing while they download. On the display screen of 1280×800 pixel (diagonal), you can read all of your favorite books, magazine and newspapers with just a touch of the screen with the pre-loaded Amazon Kindle e-Reader. The display is marginally bigger than its rival LG Optimus Pad/ G-slate screen of 1280×768 pixels. Now you can access all of your important documents as well as create new ones with ThinkFree Office which is compatible with Microsoft Office applications like Word, Excel and PowerPoint. You can also view your adobe acrobat reader (pdf) format files on Adobe pdf viewing application.

The Samsung Galaxy Tab can create and share images and video faster and portable with its two cameras. The rear-facing 3-megapixel camera with LED flash can capture images and video that can be edited and shared. The main camera features include 3x Digital Zoom, Auto Focus, Shot Modes, Smile Shot, Geo-tagging, Editing Modes, Camcorder, Video Share, Online Image Uploading. With its front-facing 2-megapixel camera, you can easily do video calls or chat. Pre-loaded with Qik, users can video-chat or talk with other people over a Wi-Fi connection. The Galaxy Tab has multiple ports for headphones, sim card, microSD (support for up to 32 GB), and a USB dock connector. Armed with the latest Adobe Flash Player, the Samsung Galaxy Tab make the viewing of any web page faster, and provides enhanced video and gaming experience. It has reader hub, store that will allow the user to download e-books to the Galaxy Tab . Samsung claims that around 2 million books, 2,000 newspapers in 49 languages, and 2,300 magazines in 22 languages are featured in this section.You can experience the full HTML internet viewing experience with Adobe Flash for watching videos and animations. You can view 3GP, AAC, AAC+, AMR, AVI, H.263, H.264, MP4, MPEG4, QCIF and WMV video compatible files on the 7-inch display that makes everything from reading to watching videos extremely pleasant. The music player with a custom interface supports compatible files formats like AAC, AMR, imelody, MIDI, MP3 and WAV and can now sort the tracks by album, artist, song, genre, folders, composer or year. For the latest and more advanced versions of Galaxy Tab, Samsung has confirmed to introduce its TwinView technology in which the streaming TVs content can also be viewed on a mobile device, that is Samsung galaxy S2.