After having obtained first place in the schools phase and later also in the regional final, the innovative team integrated by a collaborator of the Technological Innovation Park (PIT, Parque de Innovación Tecnológica) of the Autonomous University of Sinaloa (UAS, Universidad Autónoma de Sinaloa) and two engineering students of Industrial Processes (at the Faculty of Engineering belonging to the UAS) had the opportunity to represent the Casa Rosalina (UAS) in the final phase of Siemens Logo! contest.

Moved by the enthusiasm that motivates them to innovate, the young students Javier Eduardo Abitia Camacho (PIT-UAS’ collaborator), Abel Alberto Cervantes and Jesús Manuel Rodríguez Valdez obtained the national second place in the contest that is annually organized by the German company Siemens and revolves around programmable logic controllers (PLC), specifically their new model PLC Logo! V8.

It should be noted that PLC are small computers used in engineering to automate different electromechanical processes, such as production and assembly lines in big industries, or are used in processes such as home automation (domotics), which consists in the use of techniques designed to create not only automated accommodation, but also buildings and urban complexes and includes aspects like security, energy use, communications and, above all, people well-being.

In the national final it was required that the projects were constituted by an electrical, pneumatic or hydraulic control system which brain or central control organ were the programmable logic module Logo! and tended to care and save energy, it could be focused on uses of home automation. Meanwhile, the future industrial engineers demonstrated that domotics, in addition to being applicable for homes, it can be develop in other types of complexes, such as zoos; the students included apps to take care of details like security in case of a fire, access control to animal cages, as well as the order in parking lots.

The national final was held on October 27 of 2016 in Mexico City, in the architectonical complex of the Siemens Company, which stands as the first building in Mexico that has a double certification in Leader of Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) in the category of Commercial Building Interiors, in conjunction with the Core and Enclosure certification.

To sum up, the project was selected in its first stage, among over fifty projects registered throughout the country, of which only 38 managed to be selected to compete in their respective regions, to later reach the final. Students form institutions such as La Salle University, Technological Institute of Sonora, Autonomous University of Baja California as well as technological universities of different zones of the country, participated with their innovative projects which aimed to present solutions to the daily life on automated homes.

Moroni Arellano (Communication and Diffusion, PIT-UAS), translated by Belem Ruiz (Edition and Communication, PIT-UAS).