In this paper, we address the problem of predicting the usage of home appliances where a key challenge is to model the everyday routine of homeowners and the inter–dependency between the use of different appliances. In particular, given an efficient day–ahead prediction of electrical usage, home energy management systems can suggest homeowners when is the best time to run appliances in order to...

n appliance is a tool or machine adapted for a special purpose. Our retail stores are full of traditional appliances that attempt to improve our lives by making an activity less unpleasant. Appliances may provide an increase in efficiency that liberates personal time, such as a washing machine or dishwasher. Or they may perform a task that users couldn't carry out to a high standard by hand alo...

A Robotic User Interface (RUI) is a concept wherein robots are used as interfaces for human behavior. We have developed a RUI system for communications and given it the appearance of a teddy bear. This system allows interpersonal communications using robots as physical avatars. In this paper, we propose a new use of the RUI as a physical agent for control of home appliances. This use of a RUI e...

Objective: The objective of this present study was to understand how children and adolescents perceive esthetic attractiveness of a variety of orthodontic appliances. It also analyzed preferences according to patients' age, sex and socioeconomic status. Methods: A photograph album consisting of eight photographs of different orthodontic appliances and clear tray aligners placed in a consentin...

We assess the feasibility of unseen appliance recognition through the analysis of their electrical signatures recorded using lowcost smart plugs. By unseen, we stress that our approach focuses on the identification of appliances that are of different brands or models than the one in training phase. We follow a strictly defined protocol in order to provide comparable results to the scientific co...

In this paper the use of robots as intelligent appliances is discussed. A number of advertised systems are reviewed and their basic characteristics analyzed. Open issues in terms of navigation, user interfaces, robustness, price are discussed as a basis for issues for future research to enable commercial delivery of such systems.

In this paper, we have reported an effective implementation for Internet of Things used for monitoring home appliances. we presents wireless sensor networks based real time power management system to control and monitor the power consumption of electrical appliances in a home. Current sensor and voltage sensor is placed at electrical load to sense the current and voltage , it calculates the pow...

AIM Removable appliances are a dependable choice for many patients but like all orthodontic appliances, they have some limitations in use. Patient selection and appropriate appliance design are two key factors for success. Many patients, especially adults, prefer intra-oral appliances to extra-oral devices. Sometimes a removable intra-oral appliance can solve a dental problem in a shorter perio...

The human interface design for household appliances is becoming far more difficult than that in the past, because they have so many functions that the users could not remember all of their operations as well as the size is so compact that enough buttons, switches, and/or displays could not be placed on the control panel. The paper proposes a novel idea of human interface named Push like talking...

Implementing and maintaining file systems is painful. OS functionality is notoriously difficult to develop and debug, and file systems are more so than most because of their size and interactions with other OS components. In-kernel file systems must adhere to a large number of internal OS interfaces. Though difficult during initial file system development, these dependencies particularly compli...