Embedded network devices have become an ubiquitous fixture in the modern home, office as well as in the global communication infrastructure. Devices like routers, NAS appliances, home entertainment appliances, wifi access points, web cams, VoIP appliances, print servers and video conferencing units reside on the same networks as our personal computers and enterprise servers and together form ou...

The feature or service interaction problem within home networks is an established topic for the FI community. Interactions between home appliances, services and their environment have been reported previously. Indeed earlier work by the authors introduced a device centric approach which detects undesirable behaviour between appliances and their effects on the environment. However this previous ...

Despite the profusion of NIALM researches and products using complex algorithms, addressing the market for low cost, compact, real-time and effective NIALM smart meters is still a challenge. This paper talks about the design of a NIALM smart meter for home appliances, with the ability to self-detect and disaggregate most home appliances. In order to satisfy the compact, real-time, low price req...

Ethnographic studies of the home revealed the fundamental roles that physical locations and context play in how household members understand and manage conventional information. Yet we also know that digital information is becoming increasing important to households. The problem is that this digital information is almost always tied to traditional computer displays, which inhibits its incorpora...

The term peer-to-peer refers to the concept that in a network of equals (peers) using appropriate information and communication systems, two or more individuals are able to spontaneously collaborate without centralized coordination. A Network Appliance is defined as a dedicated function consumer device with an embedded processor and a network connection. Security for distributed peer-to-peer de...

The aim of home automation is to control home devices from a central control point. In this paper, we present the design and implementation of a low cost but yet flexible and secure internet based home automation system. The communication between the devices is wireless. The protocol between the units in the design is enhanced to be suitable for most of the appliances. The system is designed to...

Keywords: 3C Intelligent home appliance CCD a b s t r a c t This study is a creative and initial work focused on designing an intelligently automatic detecting and sensor system for home appliances being smartly interactive with mankind with speech in the living space. Since the tide of automation flowed over the industry, manufacturing business, even the living space of mankind resulting from ...

This paper presents design and implementation concepts for a wireless real-time home automation system based on Arduino Uno microcontroller as central controllers. The proposed system has two operational modes. The first one is denoted as a manually–automated mode in which the user can monitor and control the home appliances from anywhere over the world using the cellular phone through Wi-Fi co...

This paper describes a human-friendly interface based on hand gesture. Using two USB pan-tilt cameras, this system enables the user to operate home appliances with hand pointing and ten hand motions free from the user’s position. The main contribution of the system lies in its user-friendly initialization methods including interaction between the user and the system. The user can initialize or ...

Recent advances in pervasive computing foster automated systems to support household energy management. Smart devices can be used to monitor both the consumption of household appliances and the presence and activity of people in the household. Based on monitoring results, intelligent feedback to residents and intelligent control of appliances is possible. In this paper we present a service-orie...