Category Meetings and workshops

The Smart Home Open Day

The Smart Home Open Day was held on September 27, 2024 from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. During the Open day, several different activities were carried out for students and teachers, as well as project partners. Part of the activities were conducted live and part online. The activities that were carried out during the open day were: Demonstration of the ELPROS model, Smart Touch company from Osijek participation, Virtual walk through a smart home, Novelties and technologies on smart homes from the company IKNX Cordoba, Information about the Erasmus + programme. Also, sustainability goals were discussed with students, they watched the animated film “Home Smart Home” and videos of all smart home models made within the partnership. Three members of the Hungarian team from  the BMSC Zipernowsky Károly Technical School  came to the event to see the smart home model in ELPROS, now fully developed and in use. They were explained its elaborate structure, electrical installation and automation at a workshop with hosts. The way the model is used in class was demonstrated during the activities with students. The company IKNX from Córdoba, Spain, had an online presentation at the Open Day in Osijek devoted to smart home technology, Julio Fernández talked about a big project carried out by three programmers and 10 technicians. They worked for five months to equip a facility with warehouses with up‐to‐date systems that save energy and water consumption, control CO2 levels, heating and cooling of the space and all other functions required by its owner, ALDI Real Estate that has specialized in renting industrial, commercial and health care buildings.   When asked what qualities should students intending to learn and practice in IKNX possess, Mr. Fernández answered in one word – passion. Knowledge can be acquired, skills developed, but the element of passion makes people advance. Considering the business success of his company, he concluded that for those interested in working in the field there is both presence and future. This field has a strong governmental support as it is necessary to  save energy on one side and preserve the environment on the other.

Author: Branka Petrović

Active spring holidays with Smart Home

Several Smart home events took place during the spring holiday in ELPROS.

Two of the student groups participated in the activities regarding Smart home animated video and Small-scale smart home model as well as the group of VET teachers participating in the Smart home National webinar.

On 3rd of April students who were working on the small scale model with the teacher Kristijan Čvek developed model using Arduino components and tested it out. Other student group with their teacher Danijela Ivanović-Ižaković have added new functionalities to the Home Smart Home vied with VR tools.

On April 5th VET teachers had the opportunity to hear about the project and Erasmus+ funding scheme, see the smart home model ELPROS team has developed and it’s demonstration by the ELPROS team teacher Alen Hmelina

Hybrid team meeting Novi Sad-Panevėžys

Another hybrid team meeting was held from March 18 to 20. Some important topics were discussed during the meeting. The project teams worked on finding the best possible way of sharing the results of the project with all those interested in smart technology, the way of teaching students and adult learners. Smart technology is the way to create our sustainable future. The meeting included topics such as: Creating animated content about smart homes for project dissemination and other school activities, organization of National webinars, Smart home open days and Smart home VET net formation.

Hybrid team meeting

18. 10. 2023. was the last day of the hybrid team meeting!  Three eventful days with a lot of the project activities discussed in two locations simultaneously over the Internet: Osijek Croatia and Panevėžys Lithuania ended with two very interesting presentations. First, we had a chance to see a presentation on recent and innovative Smart Touch projects  which is always great way to check out what is new in the industry.  Other presentation is ELPROS pride and joy; Leon Glogoški and Tomislav Viduman showing off their mobility project results! Students had great support of their mentors at IKNX Ingeneria in Cordoba Spain which helped them to learn valuable skills and share it with us.

Smart home models in VET – Project team meeting in Pecs

Last week from 3rd of April till 5th of April teams from Serbia and Croatia were hosted by Baranya Megyei Szakképzési Centrum Zipernowsky Károly in the wonderful Pécs. During the meeting, teams have presented their smart home model ideas and the progress of the model so far. Especially interesting approach of our Hungarian partners inspired new ideas for application in other VET programs as well since their model offers students hands on approach to learning about home electrical installation and smart homes. Partners from Serbia have presented progress on short education programs. Among other project management topics like budget reporting, newsletter development etc. teams had the opportunity to discuss opportunities and problems in developing cooperation with the smart home industry with  Gergely Kalman, representative of the company Okosotthonlabor. Mr. Gergely Kalman presented his company, smart home technology options they are implementing and discussed possible ways of developing cooperation between schools and the companies.  

More on the company Okosotthonlabor: https://okosotthonlabor.hu/ 

Workshop on Smart home technologies

Interactive workshop on Smart home technologies with Smart Touch! This Monday we hosted representatives of company Smart Touch who prepared a workshop for ELPROS students and teachers. SInce some of our students are going to be working with KNX during their mobilities this was the perfect opportunity to try KNX and Control4 with some hands on activities. Students and teachers learned about the software that can be used, how to create different scenes, how to integrate the systems and tested out the programed functionalities.

More on the company: https://www.facebook.com/smarttouch.hr