Sensors can also be used to control the heating. If the temperature of the house gets too low or high a computer can instruct the heating or air conditioning to turn on. Computers and sensors can be used to control conditions in lots of different places. You might have sensors in your home to control the lights.

Originally released by BBC Worldwide Learning, 2017. Streaming video file encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on March 22, 2018.

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