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  2. Home automation - Wikipedia

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    Home automation or domotics [1] is building automation for a home. A home automation system will monitor and/or control home attributes such as lighting, climate, entertainment systems, and appliances. It may also include home security such as access control and alarm systems. The phrase smart home refers to home automation devices that have ...

  3. Lock (water navigation) - Wikipedia

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    The rise is the change in water-level in the lock. The two deepest locks on the English canal system are Bath deep lock [14] [15] on the Kennet and Avon Canal and Tuel Lane Lock on the Rochdale Canal, which both have a rise of nearly 20 feet (6.1 m). Both locks are amalgamations of two separate locks, which were combined when the canals were ...

  4. Tubular pin tumbler lock - Wikipedia

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    A tubular lock and key. A tubular pin tumbler lock, also known as a circle pin tumbler lock, radial lock, or the trademark Ace lock popularized by manufacturer Chicago Lock Company since 1933, is a variety of pin tumbler lock in which a number of pins are arranged in a circular pattern, and the corresponding key is tubular or cylindrical in shape.

  5. Smart lock - Wikipedia

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    Industrial smart locks (passive electronic lock) are a branch of the smart lock field.They are an iterative product of mechanical locks like smart locks. However, the application areas of industrial smart locks are not smart homes, but fields that have extremely high requirements for key management, such as communications, power utilities, water utilities, public safety, transportation, data ...

  6. Hive Connected Home - Wikipedia

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    The year after it was founded, the company launched Hive Active Heating on October 14, 2013, [8] a smart thermostat that allows customers to control heating and hot water in their homes via the company's website or app. [9] The system can be installed in customers' homes by a British Gas engineer. [10]

  7. Pin tumbler lock - Wikipedia

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    The first known example of a tumbler lock was found in the ruins of the Palace of Khorsabad built by king Sargon II (721–705 BC.) in Iraq. [1] Basic principles of the pin tumbler lock may date as far back as 2000 BC in Egypt; the lock consisted of a wooden post affixed to the door and a horizontal bolt that slid into the post.

  8. Electronic lock - Wikipedia

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    The software is used to set and modify the data of each key and lock. [2] Using this type of key and lock control system does not need to change user habits. In addition, compared with the previous mechanical device, its advantage is that only one key can open multiple locks instead of a bunch of keys like the current one.

  9. Water distribution system - Wikipedia

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    An example of a water distribution system: a pumping station, a water tower, water mains, fire hydrants, and service lines [1] [2]. A water distribution system is a part of water supply network with components that carry potable water from a centralized treatment plant or wells to consumers to satisfy residential, commercial, industrial and fire fighting requirements.