Control

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Control

• Lesson 1

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Control and Monitoring

• How computers are used to control and monitor
  events
• Hardware and software
• Examples
• Robots, car park barriers, theme park rides, room
  windows
• Lots of uses in everyday life think of some

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Example usage at theme park

• Theme parks use control in many ways
• Fast pass tickets
• Control of rides
• Taking photographs
• Emergency procedures
• Models
• Legoland example

4
Your task

• There are three animations on the website
• For each animation
• Create a Word document
• List all the steps that take place e.g. bridge
  opens, ship goes under, bridge closes
• Include timings
• Identify possible missing steps

5
Present findings

• Control _at_ Home
• Autodoor
• Traffic Lights

6
Manual v Automatic control

• Differences
• Supervision
• Labour saving
• Examples

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Homework

• Complete work sheet on website and bring to next
  lesson