ICS Technologies are able to plan, configure and install Clipsal’s C-Bus system for your home or commercial building.
What is C-Bus?
The Clipsal C-Bus system is a microprocessor based wiring system to control lighting and other electrical services.
C-Bus makes it easy to control all kinds of electrical services within homes and commercial buildings. From simple to sophisticated control, the advantages of C-Bus are many and the possibilities are almost endless.
For example, lights, security, air conditioning and even watering the lawn from your own tanks can be programmed to suit you.
Best of all, the modular design lets you start with a basic system and add new services to it whenever you want. C-Bus is usually programmed with a computer but you can program it manually too.
How C-Bus Works
The C-Bus Network Bus is the system’s communications network. Standard Category 5 data cable allows communication between units and provides the small amount of power needed to operate the circuitry that C-Bus units have.
C-Bus relay units and dimmer units are the links between the mains power supply and the various switches and sensors used to control a building’s electrical services. The C-Bus network is electrically isolated from the mains power and operates at a safe extra low voltage level (36V DC).
The size of a C-Bus system is practically unlimited. Larger installations are typically divided into networks of 100 units allowing the system to be set up in manageable sections and up to 1000 metres of cable can be installed per network.
So you see, the system can be as small or as large as you need. And C-Bus not only simplifies the design of your automation needs, it also limits potential faults and makes troubleshooting easier.
C-Bus can respond to any or all of the following:
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Home entertainment – Integrated audio visual, lighting control and other electrical services
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Security – Integrated security, lighting and other electrical services
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Comfort – Dimming, scene setting
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Convenience – Multiple point control, central point control from touch screens, automated time based control, automated ‘Goodbye’ and ‘Welcome Home’ moods.
C-Bus is suitable for a wide range of applications, for example:
Residential Automation
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Home entertainment – Integrated audio visual, lighting control and other electrical services
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Security – Integrated security, lighting and other electrical services
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Comfort – Dimming, scene setting
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Convenience – Multiple point control, central point control from touch screens, automated time based control, automated ‘Goodbye’ and ‘Welcome Home’ moods.
Standalone Room Lighting Control
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Integrated automation via touch screen user interfaces for conference rooms and home theatres
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Multiple scene/mood setting.
Commercial Lighting Control
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Fluorescent lighting control for energy cost saving in high-rise buildings
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High-bay control in warehouses for energy cost saving
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Mood lighting in restaurants and retail outlets
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Flexible and integrated control of lighting and Audio Visual equipment in boardrooms
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Architectural lighting control for hotel foyers, ballrooms, art galleries and museums.
C-Bus also supports Multi Room Audio with a full range of amplifiers and wall or ceiling speakers which can all be controlled from switches or touch screens.
Since all electrical loads need to come back to a central panel, it would be prohibitively expensive to convert an existing house to utilise C-Bus unless extensive renovations are being carried out where the Gyprock is removed to reveal the existing electrical wiring, allowing it’s reconfiguration.
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Cabling services
Most new home builders only allow one TV point and one or two telephone points so this is where we can come in to design a system that will work for you to allow distribution of content from your media server around the house or print from your laptop to your main printer.
More and more houses are having structured cabling installed which can carry services such as telephone, data, television, etc to all points of the house. Even if you are not sure what you need in a room, it’s worth running the cable to the room and hiding it in the wall for future use.
Wireless is another option but one which complements rather than replaces the wired network both from a security and speed perspective.
With the rapid advancement in cabling technology, a Category 6A network installed in your home today will will have superior performance to most commercial systems - even those installed only recently and more importantly will be futureproof for the new technologies of tomorrow.
We can also design the cabling and provide equipment and advice for your multi-media room.
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