====== HIQ Technology ======

**Design**

Cybrotech originate from industry control and automation, all devices are designed and build up to a much higher standards then usually expected in home automation.

**Features**

  * hardware watch-dog
  * transient supression
  * short circuit tolerant outputs
  * reverse polarity tolerant supply
  * wide temperature range

**Addressing**

Devices are addressed automatically, not a single address is set by user.

**Firmware**

All devices are build to implement firmware upgrade, so the future for your investment is assured.

**Responsive**

From key-press to action, typical reaction time is 10 milliseconds.

**Power consumption**

HIQ take a great care to use as little electricity as possible.

**Autorange** 

Inputs always ensure a full scale motion.

**No batteries**

The whole system is operated from a single 24V power supply.

**No hidden costs** at any level - everything is simple and elegant (and beautiful, too).

**Programming tools** are free, everybody is welcome to give it a try. Only a basic programming skills are needed. Join our group and discover how fun and simple house automation can be.

===== Wired vs. Wireless =====

  * no batteries
  * more reliable
  * faster response
  * less EMI pollution
  * simpler setup
  * lower price

===== IEX2 bus =====

IEX2 bus used to interconnect HIQ-DC is based on CAN bus. CAN bus is a multi-master, deterministic bus which offer optimum between performance, network architecture and cost.

It is widely used in automobiles, trucks, motorcycles, snowmobiles, trains, buses, airplanes, agriculture, construction, mining and marine vehicles.

> CAN is ideally suited in applications requiring a large number of short messages with high reliability in rugged operating environments. Because CAN is message based and not address based, it is especially
>well suited when data is needed by more than one location and system-wide data consistency is mandatory.
>
> Fault confinement is also a major benefit of CAN. Faulty nodes are automatically dropped from the bus, which prevents any single node from bringing a network down, and ensures that bandwidth is always
>available for critical message transmission. This error containment also allows nodes to be added to a bus while the system is in operation, otherwise known as hot-plugging. ((Texas Instruments, Introduction to the Controller Area Network (CAN) ))