In the last decades, home energy consumption has increased significantly due to increasing load demand in the residential sector. This paper presents a home energy management (HEM) algorithm to manage the home appliances in a house during a demand response (DR) event. The developed algorithm considers load appliances according to customer preference setting, priority of appliance, and comfortab...

In this paper, we will discuss the problem how human behavior at home could be detected and how its model could be constructed. Understanding human behavior or action is important to establish a new technology that focuses on individual behaviors. Especially, it is necessary to know human habitual behavior in order to improve life environment. In actual environment, many electric appliances, e....

Household appliances such as dishwashers, televisions and radios are an indispensable part of the modern household. Yet, people who have some form of physical impairment often find that they are unable to make use of these commonly available appliances, to the detriment of their lifestyle. This paper proposes a gesture interface for home appliances that can be used by people with physical impai...

In this paper, for efficient energy consumption through the residential demand response in the smart grid, an optimization algorithm, which can provide a schedule plan for the home appliance usages, is proposed. In order to minimize the average electricity price based on the time-varying electricity price in conjunction with the peak hourly load, which decides the capacity of the electric suppl...

Based on the developing requirement of digitalization, networking, and intellectualization in smart home, an improved scheme of home appliance control system is proposed in this paper. It is focused on the system identification and information security. The software designed for smart phone and PDA based on Android operation system is completed, the website based on architecture of J2EE is also...

We address the problem of recommending an appliance usage schedule to the homeowner which balances between maximising total savings and maintaining sufficient user convenience. An important challenge within this problem is how to elicit the the user preferences with low intrusiveness, in order to identify new schedules with high cost savings, that still lies within the user’s comfort zone. To t...

Various home appliances and personal appliances are expected to be connected to the Internet in the near future, and the number of such appliances will become extremely large. The Internet will provide connectivity between nodes running various services and applications, in order to provide new advanced functionality. However, the conventional IP protocol is not expected to be sufficient for co...