A virtual appliance contains a target application, and the running environment necessary for running that application. Users run an appliance using a virtualization engine, freeing them from the need to make sure that the target application has access to all its dependencies. However, creating and managing a virtual appliance, versus a stand-alone application, requires special considerations. U...

We have been improving our monitoring system, which had been organized with network cameras, an integrated web/mail server, web-based clients and remote control devices. Several kinds of devices can be used as our clients including, for example, high-performance cellular phone, which are equipped with Java virtual machine and web-browsing facilities. Our integrated server is designed to play in...

Knowing about the type of objects that exist in real world is important thing for automation of conveyance or classification task. This paper reports our challenges the purpose of which is to categorize objects that are incorporated into home electric appliances. Our target includes small sized objects, flexible objects, and objects that have various appearances by the difference in view-points...

There is a strong need to automate the retail businesses in the emerging markets. Many PC based solutions exist to address the issues involved in automating retail businesses. However, none of these information and communication technology (ICT) based solutions have been able to provide a simple, user friendly and a cost effective solution. We aim to build a low cost, easy-to-use appliance that...

Since the equipment transmission parts of combination electric appliance in transformer substation are located in the shell, when an internal fault appears, the traditional charged test method only can preliminarily determine the defective position and types, but cannot directly shows the internal defects of the equipment. The Fuxin Company actively introduced X-ray CR imaging test technology a...

The advancement of hybrid energy resources such as solar and wind power leading to the emergence of customer owned grid. It provides an opportunity to regulars to obtain low energy costs as well as enabling the power supplier to regulate the utility grid. There is a need to develop smart systems that will automatically submit energy demand schedule and monitors energy price signals in real-time...

© 2013 Zhuang Zhao et al. 677 In this paper, we first introduce a general architecture of an energy management system in a home area network based on a smart grid. Then, we propose an efficient scheduling method for home power usage. The home gateway (HG) receives the demand response (DR) information indicating the real-time electricity price, which is transferred to an energy management contro...