A common meeting room must contain several equipments, such as lights, air conditioners, a projector and a projector screen. This case simply implements a “Alice HMI” to integrate these equipments and create several scenarios to simplify operations.

Alice works in an office and always uses a meeting room. Before a meeting, Alice needs to setup the meeting environments including lowering down the projector and its screen, turning on air conditioners and lights. Sometimes, during the meeting, Alice needs to turn on/off the fluorescent lights, or switch the downlights on/off for making a particular atmosphere. Besides, occasionally the customers complain about the temperature and Alice needs to tune the air conditioners. Going through the whole meeting process, frequently turning on/off equipments not only interrupts the meeting but also makes Alice exhausted. Not to say that everything should be restored back to its original positions after meeting.

Yes. Use TouchPAD to integrate all equipments and make all the controls through only TouchPAD. A programmable TouchPAD makes controls more intelligent. With its touch screen, TouchPAD becomes more user-friendly.

The following is the equipment list of Alice’s meeting room:
Fluorescent light          x 2
Downlights                    x 3
Air conditioner              x 3
Projector                        x 1
Projector screen           x 1

Note: we use XP-8747-CE6(Programmable Automation Controller) because of its strong computing power to avoid experiencing delays in turning on/off equipments. (In this case, not a great number of equipments in the meeting room is involved, the powerful XP-8747-CE6 should not have adopted. However, using XP-8747-CE6 in this case is not only for demonstration, but also for integrations with all other office area outside this meeting room for expansion if needed in the future.)

IPC DAS not only provides HMI hardware devices, TouchPAD/ViewPAD, but also offers the free developing tool, HMIWorks, for implementing the projects easily. HMIWorks supports C language and ladder diagram design. It realizes the requirements of fast programming, downloading and deployments. Using HMIWorks to implement this case is quick and reliable.

To download HMIWorks: http://ftp.icpdas.com/pub/cd/touchpad/setup/