This post will show my in depth research into the technology and also the detail of processes. On the Future Life Blog you can see the information about the touch screen technology that was one of my initial ideas for what was going to be included in my panels.
The panels themselves would be on a kind of runner to help them move from side to side. This will have the same effect as sliding wardrobe doors where when pulled the doors will open sideways instead of outwards.
These runners can be added to the floor instead so that they run along the cobbles, but it may be easier to attach it to the roof of the ginnel, as well as the extended roof section that I included in my designs.
The panels will run on the runners, attached to the panels so that they move with ease. Making the panels light weight will help to make it easier for the panels to move. There is also the safety factor. If the panels were to move I need to consider how it will detect people and when it will move and what will alert people to this event.
A timer could be used to activate the movement of the panels, so that to make it into the event that I would like, they could be set on a timer, like some other motion sensors (usually done by the effect of lighting) and then the use of sound, to be discussed shortly, will also alert people of the panels movement.
Passive Infra-red sensors.
These sensors, also known as PIR sensors, are usually seen at shopping centres and supermarkets. A laser beam and a light sensor helps the sensors detect when a person is near, going off the drop in light. It can sometimes emit a tone to alert the person of the entrance, this could be good for my design as I could use the use of sound to alert people of the panels moving.
Optical Sensor.
The automatic sliding doors use optical or motion sensors to activate the opening and closing function. They are typically the same as infra-red sensors that observe motion and are usually situated above the door. The mechanism for this wired to an electrified main drive train. This controls a clutch attached to a type of cog wheel and also attached to the door panels. The auxiliary drive and the doors are connected by internal belts which are usually made of rubber, which carries our the opening and closing of the doors.
Tracks and Rollers.
The doors can be hung or installed in different ways depending on the type of door. Particularly in frame-less doors the doors are hung from above on head tracks and they do not make contact with the floor. These types of doors could also be mounted on one side with rollers and tracks make a connection with the floor plane, usually used with a single sliding door to balance it out. Finally, doors can be mounted in a metal frame with connections tracks and rollers both on overhead and floor planes.
Another safety feature is a pressure sensor. Even though the sound/alarm will alert people in the movement of the panels, pressure sensors would be a good feature to include as if a person does get in the way the panel will stop until that person moves out of the way, then it can carry on moving as it should.
The pressure sensor in the panels uses electricity in most cases to cause a type of serge in the technology to stop the panels from moving. There is also a kind of strain on the technology that lets it detect the presence of pressure, particularly from people.
These pressure sensors can also be included in the use of sound in my design. These sensors could trigger the sounds used in the exhibition, such as when people enter a specific section, they step on these sensors and make the sounds linking to the images around them. There are also lighting sensors that can be used in the space, so when people enter the different spaces in the exhibition, it will light up, this also saves energy.
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