It sounds rather mysterious: a switch that is controlled by its ambient temperature. All without the touch of a human hand, except for when you’re building this sort of electronic thermostat. There ...

Get our weekly Home and Garden email for tips, and interior inspiration Most of us don’t think too hard about making a brew. Flick the kettle switch, wait for the rumble and pour boiling water over ...

A temperature controller is an instrument that controls temperatures, often without extensive operator involvement. In a temperature controller system, the controller accepts a temperature sensor as ...

Starting with the sensor, measuring and controlling temperature is an essential building block of process industries. Automatic control in continuous processes uses industrial control systems to ...

Last month’s column introduced the concept of giving “too much control” to the building operators through the BAS graphic. I used a simple and fairly obvious example of an air handler with dual ...