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1 General features  



1.1  Wiring  





1.2  Communication  





1.3  Functions  





1.4  Configuration  



1.4.1  Addressing details  









2 Certifications  





3 Integration  





4 See also  














Bus SCS






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SCS is an acronym for "Sistema Cablaggio Semplificato" ("Simplified Cable Solution"). It uses a fieldbus network protocol and has applications in the field of home automation and building automation. It is used mainly in bTicino and Legrand installations.

General features

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An SCS bus is based on a sheathed twisted pair formed of two flexible conductors; these are braided and unshielded with isolation 300/500V, SELV as double isolation is required – according to the rules adopted by CEI (International Electrotechnical Committee). The bus is unpolarized, devices are required to support the DC power supply in both polarity.

Wiring

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Two kind of wiring are possible:

Communication

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Across the SCS bus four different types of signals are transmitted in frequency modulation:

The transmission protocol is the CSMA/CA.

Functions

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Through the SCS bus you have the following functions:

All the listed functions share the same technology and the same procedures for configuration / installation.

Configuration

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All devices connected to SCS bus must be manually configured, no autolearn is possible, apart Alarm system and extenders. Configuration assign an address and an operating mode. Two kind of configurations are possible:

Addressing details

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Device addressing use three different 'digits' A|PL|GR. The A mean the room, the PL is the Point of Load in the room, and GR is the group. Group join loads in same or different rooms in a logical manner. Not all devices has group addressing. All devices must answer to room broadcast called AMB. All devices must answer to general broadcast called GEN. Physical and Virtual addressing has different limitations:

digits Physical Virtual note
A 0-9 0-10 11 rooms max in a single SCS domain
PL 1-9 0-15 A=0,PL=0 is forbidden, so 175 loads are addressable in a single SCS domain
GR 1-9 0-255 group

Writing physical addresses use 2 digits. Writing virtual addresses use 4 digits. In big houses and buildings, SCS address extension is possible, were different address domains are connected via some bridges. Only some kind of messages can cross a bridge. Here the values of physical configuration jumpers:

marking color value code description
<empty> --- infinite --- default to virtual
0 green 4659 kOhm 3501/0 digit
1 green 817 kOhm 3501/1 digit
2 green 673 kOhm 3501/2 digit
3 green 556 kOhm 3501/3 digit
4 green 471 kOhm 3501/4 digit
5 green 389 kOhm 3501/5 digit
6 green 329 kOhm 3501/6 digit
7 green 271 kOhm 3501/7 digit
8 green 218 kOhm 3501/8 digit
9 green 179 kOhm 3501/9 digit
GEN blue 100 kOhm 3501/GEN general broadcast
GR blue 68 kOhm 3501/GR group broadcast
AMB blue 33 kOhm 3501/AMB room broadcast
AUX blue 2.2 kOhm 3501/AUX auxiliary channel
ON blue 120 kOhm 3501/ON send ON command
OFF blue 150 kOhm 3501/OFF send OFF command
0/1 blue 180 kOhm 3501/01 send toggle command
PUL blue 2.2 kOhm 3501/PUL button command monostable
SLA blue 120 kOhm 3501/SLA slave of another control
CEN blue 33 kOhm 3501/CEN advanced scenarios mode
↑↓ blue 100 kOhm 3501/T up/down for shutters
↑↓M blue 68 kOhm 3501/TM up/down for shutters monostable

Note: It looks like the values of the configurators are measured, not from any official table. Resistor values are not between short difference. E.g. "4", it is in this table 471 kohm; if resistor is 1%, it is about 470 k ... 479 k. The original table from year 1999/2000 says: 0 = 4,7M, 1 = 825k, 2 = 681k, 3 = 562k, 4 = 475k, 5 = 392k, 6 = 332k, 7 = 274 k, 8 = 221k and 9 = 182k. All these values are found in the standard "E"-resistor value table (EIA E96) but not uniformly spaced (is that correct?). Resistor values in this list are official. However the table values above are useful because all the values fall inside the 1% resistor tolerance area specified by E96 (except value 3501/9 measured at 179k - a second example tested also gave a reading of 179k).

Certifications

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Devices connected to the SCS bus are IMQ-certified and comply with these product standards (International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) EN 50428 - IEC EN 60669-1/A1 - IEC EN 60669-2-1 - IEC EN 50090-2-2 - IEC EN 50090-2-3 ).

Integration

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You can interact with the SCS bus through a gateway and an open high-level protocol called OpenWebNet. Two kind of gateway exist:

These gateways are bidirectional; they translate SCS frames into OpenWebNet frames, and the other way round. The open protocol OpenWebNet shared by MyOpen community, let everybody to build software that interact with SCS devices. SCS protocol is a proprietary bTicino protocol. Interaction with other field bus must happen only writing software that use OpenWebNet.

See also

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