Live support chatSmart Home Load Control (Video On Demand)
Credit: 2 PDH
Subject Matter Expert: John-Ross Cromer
In Smart Home Load Control, you'll learn ...
- How smart technology building fundamentals improve residential and commerical buildings
- How cloud services promote safety and welfare while creating other risks
- Local network alternatives to cloud services in order to design the most secure smart home network for a site
- How to design and compile an open-source local energy controller, to shape an electric load profile to best fit a time-of-use or demand electric rate
- How energy control systems complement on-site solar and batteries to promote distributed clean generation
Overview
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Credit: 2 PDH
In this course, you’ll learn how smart technology building fundamentals improve residential and commerical buildings within the context of code, health, safety, and welfare. The focus of the course will be to introduce smart home components and concerns, while later walking through the set up of a low budget smart home with a focus on energy controls.
You’ll learn how to apply the information in this course to design and assemble a local electricity controller to understand how electrical control systems can shape a local electric grid.
Specific Knowledge or Skill Obtained
This course teaches the following specific knowledge and skills:
- Good smart home design principles
- Cloud services vs local services
- Voice commands and facial recognition
- Future-proofing a system
- NEC requirements for light switches and lighting circuits
- Pros and cons of battery-powered devices
- Wireless communication – Wifi vs. Zwave vs. Zigbee
- How to build a local energy controller
- kW demand rate structures
- Benefits of onsite solar and batteries
Video on Demand
This course is a recorded version of a live lecture and will be streamed directly to your computer's media player. Our format is generally compatible with media players included with all computers and mobile devices. After watching the video presentation, you will return to your account to take the online quiz. While this is a recording of a live presentation, please note that this recording will not qualify as a "live" or "interactive" continuing education activity in those jurisdictions where it is required.
Certificate of Completion
You will be able to immediately print a certificate of completion after passing a multiple-choice quiz consisting of 17 questions. PDH credits are not awarded until the course is completed and quiz is passed.
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Preview a portion of the video before you purchase it.
Credit: 2 PDH
