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Building Automation Foundations (Basic)

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About Course

Ever wish your home could just… know what you need? That it could prepare for your arrival, manage itself while you’re away, and handle the little daily tasks that add up?

In this free foundational course, we’ll take you on a fun, relatable journey into the world of smart home automation. We’ll ditch the confusing jargon and dive into the fascinating history of how we taught our homes to think. We will explore the simple but powerful core concepts that make everything work, and then get hands-on with a practical, step-by-step guide to transforming a single room into a truly smart space.

By the end, you’ll have the knowledge and confidence to make your home work for you—not the other way around!

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What Will You Learn?

  • The real-life motivation behind home automation
  • A brief history of automation from ancient Greece to modern smart homes
  • The three levels of smartness: Remote Control, Scheduling, and Triggers & Conditions
  • How smart devices communicate and respond to your needs
  • The role of sensors, controllers, and actuators in a smart home
  • How to build your first simple automation using a smart plug
  • How to use voice assistants like Alexa or Google Assistant
  • How routines and triggers make your home “think”
  • The basics of smart home protocols like Wi-Fi and Bluetooth
  • How to choose the right starter devices for your lifestyle

Course Content

Course Instructions
Set of instructions to help you as you start the course

  • Take note of these instructions through out the entire course

Welcome to this course

The Automation Journey – From a Simple Wish to a Smart Reality

The Building Blocks of a Smart Building

Safety First!

Your First Automation Project (Mini-Project)

Final Examination
Instructions: Please answer all questions. The questions are a mix of multiple choice, true or false, and multiple-selection.

You have done it!

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DO
2 months ago
The course is very instructive and detailed.
OO
2 months ago
The experience was really fantastic, awesome and totally excellent. I give much thankful and appreciation to smart city mall African for bringing this training together, it was a great and impactful learning, because from the training I was exposed to basic of home automations. Now, I understand what home automation is all about, the starter kits devices, applications designed for use in home automation and the importance of Internet network access, such as Wi-Fi., and how we can apply it to solve our daily worries and annoyance in our homes. I also acknowledge the the author of the material design for this training for been simple and excellent expression of the material, the delivery was written in a well understandable manner, This alone make the course very interesting, clear and understandable.
I appreciate everyone at smart city mall African for the knowledge you have impacted to us all.
Thanks you and God bless you all!

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