A simple reliable wireless bus design for home automation systems

Abstract

This paper presents the design and development of a simple wireless bus for domotics (WBD). The architecture of the bus is based on a classical master/multi-slave configuration, where the beginning of any task in the network is initiated by the master unit. The proposed domotic bus shows a reliable performance thanks to the cyclic redundancy check (CRC) algorithm configured in a modified Modbus frame. The commands’ speed response of the proposed bus is increased in comparison with other domotic standards, such as X10, ZigBee, and LonWorks, which offers an affordable, yet reliable self-configurable network solution for home automation solutions (HAS).