What are automated systems, with examples and input/output devices.

Automated systems

Example: Central heating systems that regulate to our own environment and robots that explore the universe.

Automated systems are commonly used in supermarkets, factories, and many other places.

Self service checkout

What? - You scan your own items and you purchase the items yourself at the supermarket.

Input? – Scales (weigh the goods), Scanner (Read barcodes), Payment inputs (card readers, etc.)

Output? – Screen, Speakers, Payment receipt printer.

Production Line

What? – Hardware components like robots and a controlling software combined to create a automatic system in a production line, example: a car factory.

Input? – Optical sensors to locate product components, pressure sensors to feel product components.

Output? – Controlling robots to manufacture components.