I needed to create 10 questions to this text) But it seems that did that bad...) Domotics Domotics, from the Latin word domus plus robotics, also know as automation, involves the use of information technology applied to domestic appliances in order to create intelligent systems inside the house. Basic intelligent devices, traditional devices with an embedded processor, have been with us for a while, e.g. microwave ovens and washing machines with computerized controls. Intelligent homes are a wider concert: all the systems and devices are connected in a LAN, local area network, where they communicate with each other and are controlled by a central computer sometimes installed in one of the machines. Control devices and networking Intelligent homes are controlled with different types of interfaces, devices that facilitate communication between the user and the system: physical switches, touch screens, IR (infrared) remote controls, computers either at home or at distance, telephony. The different elements perform one of these two functions : they are command initiators, e.g. a brightness sensor that is programmed to send an instruction when it gets dark, or command receivers, e.g. a light that turns on when it receives an instruction sent by the sensor. Household appliances, sound and video systems, optical and thermal sensors, etc. can be linked with wired and wireless systems. Wired LANs use different types of cables and also electrical wiring. WLANs, wireless, use radio-frequency systems: Bluetooth, a short-range radio systems used to communicate between portable devices (laptops, PDAs, mobile phones, etc.), is now frequently used to design PANs (personal area networks) inside the home. Questions 1. From what language came word <Domotics>? 2. What it`s main functions? 3. What LAN`s main functions? 4. What wireless systems is used to connect portable devices with domotics? 5. By what LAN controlled? 6. LAN created with traditional or improved processor? 7. How many functions can control LAN? 8. What is this functions? 9. LAN could be only wireless? 10. The main computer that control LAN could be separated from all of the machines?