FAGOR ELECTRODOMESTICOS manufactures a wide variety of household appliances which, in combination with the developments in home automation that have occurred in recent years, have led to the need for a technical solution in order to join both worlds. In collaboration with IKERLAN-IK4, a communication bus was developed that permits internal communications between different electronic modules in a household appliance and providing home automation with communications capacity.

Solution provided

Based on client specifications, the following tasks were performed:

• Design of additional hardware for home automation connectivity.
• Display and optimization tools.
• Multi-point bus control software.

The system has the following characteristics:

• FAGOR (BMF) multi-point bus with master-slave topology.
• Communications gateway for home automation (KDU)

Advantages

• Provides communications capacity without making changes in FAGOR appliances.
• Modular communications.
• The creation of a multi-point proprietary bus for different solutions.
• SAT tool