
Discover the basics of building automation with KNX, learn to identify components, install the system, and realize energy-saving benefits, with a path to KNX certified partner status.
Define building automation and its central control of HVAC, lighting, and other systems. Highlight building management systems, distributed control, and ISO standards enabling interoperability.
Trace the history of the KNX association from EIB origins to the 1999 merger and its rise as the open world standard for home and building automation.
Explore KNX building functions, enabling lighting, heating, cooling, ventilation, blinds, and other electrical devices with Kate, plus automatic control, measurement, metering, scenarios, and remote monitoring.
Explore KNX system components such as power supply and line couplers, sensors, and actuators, and how telegrams on the bus carry commands to switch, dim, or visualize states.
Learn KNX twisted pair installation, covering bus line data exchange, media options (power line, Ethernet, gateways, wireless KNX, optical fibre), and topology rules with no loops.
Explore KNX topology with twisted pair and Ethernet, using line and area couplers and IP routers to connect lines and up to 64 K and X devices, with ETS5 addressing.
Plan and commission a KNX project by building a tree structure, importing product databases, selecting software, assigning unique physical addresses, defining group addresses, and wiring interconnections.
Learn practical KNX setup: download individual addresses, assign physical and group addresses, load applications via bus, and wire a simple powerline and bus installation.
Explore KNX home automation with centralized control of lights, presence-based settings, alarms, and remote access via Kate, plus intelligent blinds, climate control, and energy savings.
KNX is a green, energy-efficient building automation standard that enhances energy performance and delivers 50 per cent energy savings, with flexible, secure, cost-efficient control of lighting, heating, and shading.
Compare KNX installations to conventional setups and show how higher functionality enables energy savings through intelligent components and automation. KNX remains a profitable investment with savings in the use phase.
Estimate KNX costs during preplanning and execution planning using square-meter based flat-rate models to compare with conventional solutions.
Learn the basic concepts, tools, installation, operation, and configuration of KNX and how you will become a KNX Partner. Create building automation with KNX.
Build a strong foundation in KNX and building automation with this tutorial for beginners.
Recognize KNX components
Install a KNX system
Operate and configure a KNX system
Learn how to become a KNX partner
A Powerful Flexible World Standard for Building Automation
Learning the fundamentals of KNX puts a powerful and very useful, flexible tool at your fingertips. KNX is easy to learn, has excellent documentation from the product manufacturers, and is the Worldwide STANDARD for Home and Building Control.
Projects with KNX is like a lego game. KNX gives you the ability to extend and modify any time your installation.
Content and Overview
Through this course of 29 lectures and 120 minutes of content, you'll learn all of the KNX fundamentals and establish a strong understanding of building automation with the KNX concept. Each chapter sums it up with quizzes, putting your newly learned skills into theoretical use immediately.
We are going to start with a small glimpse of the history of KNX, and then we will go deep into KNX. We will explain what is KNX, KNX components, installation, operation, and configuration.
Later on, we will examine KNX application examples, see its benefits and learn how we can save on energy. Finally, we will show you how someone who is interested can become a KNX Partner and the first exercise in ETS5. You will see the procedure of downloading the individual address and application program into devices of the KNX Live Platform.
By completing the course, you'll be able to understand how a KNX system works and you will decide whether you wish to become a partner in the amazing world of KNX, by taking the exam for KNX certification.