Ubiquitous Monitoring of Electrical Household Appliances

Ubiquitous Monitoring of Electrical Household Appliances

The number of appliances at home is increasing continuously, mainly because they make our lives easier. Currently, technology is integrated in all objects of our daily life. TCP/IP let us monitor our home in real time and check ubiquitously if something is happening at home. Bearing in mind this idea, we have developed a low-cost system, which can be used in any type of electrical household app...

Consumers ’ perception of the functional and symbolic performance failure of major electrical household appliances

In hierdie studie word verbruikers se persepsies van die onklaarraak of defekte werkverrigting (produkmislukking, product failure) van bepaalde groot elektriese huishoudelike toerusting verken en beskryf. Die konfirmasie/diskonfirmasie-paradigma (Bearden & Teel, 1983) dien as teoretiese agtergrond vir die studie. ’n Gerieflikheidsteekproef is gebruik om vraelyste, wat respondente self voltooi h...

Research on Multi Human-Computer Interface Design of Household Electrical Appliances

Household Appliances Control Device for the Elderly

An evaluation of musical earcons was carried out to see whether they are an effective and efficient method of delivering information about household appliances to elderly people. A test was carried out to explore the ability of the elderly subjects in remembering and learning the musical earcons. This test indicated a poor rate of recognition of the earcons. A second test that included the pres...

Energy Management System for Domestic Electrical Appliances

A variety of energy management systems are currently available for domestic domain, and many are concerned with real-time energy consumption monitoring and display of statistical and real time data of energy consumption. Although these systems play a crucial role in providing a detailed picture of energy consumption in home environment and contribute to influencing energy consumption behavior, ...