FAQ

What's LON?

LON - system and design in building automation
What's LON ?

LON (Local Operating Network) is an universally employable and decentral network for automation in buildings, in industry, in traffic, in telecommunications and in many other fields.

Intelligents sensors, actuators and operation devices can flexibly be connected with each other. As transmission medium serves twisted pair, 230 V-power line, radio frequency or IP. They communicate with each other from any point to any point. Changes, extensions and maintenance are possible at any time and also during operation.

Due to powerfull tools and numerous components and products both small and complex automation tasks cannot only be solved fast, but also economically. To these products belong TOUCHLON, SENSOLON, LIMeX, DCFLON,...

As member of the LonMark Germany we support LON as open and interoperable technology by which all systems in one building ca be connected. This is the basis for a room automation with a guaranteed future and thus for the economic operation of real estate.

What's DMX?

DMX 512 is digital control protocol, which are used in the stage and event technology for the control of dimmers, intelligent headlights and light effect devices. The abbreviation DMX stands for digital multiplex.
The DMX 512-Signal is world-wide standardized for the digital control in the lighting engineering range. For transmission a two-cored, shielded line with 3 - or 5-pin XLR connector is used. Channels can be transferred in a dissolution of 8-bit (256 steps per channel) up to 512. For higher dissolutions with certain channels several channels for one function will be used. The transmission is based on the standard EIA RS-485. The protocol were standardized 1990 by the USITT internationally, therefore also DMX 512/1990. An extension of protocoll was decided in 2000 with DMX 512/2000.