The nation’s nearly 80 million baby boomers are about to enter their peak years of chronic disease and are set to become an unprecedented driver of health care costs. New technology, however, promises to enable a transformation in the delivery of care, putting patients at the center of care systems that engage and empower them and their families, directly connecting patients to caregivers, and ...

This paper concerns a home automation system of energy management. Such a system aims at keeping under control the energy consumption in housing. The expected energy consumption is scheduled over one day. Each hour a total amount of energy is available that is a resource constraint for the expected energy plan. The expected consumption is totally derived from users behavior which are quite diff...

The increasing demand for electricity has necessitated the introduction of information and communication technologies (ICT) in the development of the smart grid. Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) and Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are contributing technologies. In this paper, a review on AMI and WSN in the smart grid is carried out. Also, the introduction of WSNs with AMI in the in-home e...

Demand-side energy management systems (EMSs) are expected to be used as a method for further balancing the supply and demand of power systems with high levels of renewable energy generation, such as photovoltaic (PV) power. Energy demand and solar radiation must be predicted to realize the optimal operation scheduling of demand-side appliances by a home energy management system (HEMS), includin...

This paper proposes a stochastic dynamic programming framework for the optimal energy management of a smart home with plug-in electric vehicle (PEV) energy storage. This work is motivated by the challenges associated with intermittent renewable energy supplies and the local energy storage opportunity presented by vehicle electrification. This paper seeks to minimize electricity ratepayer cost, ...

Energy management in smart home environment is nowadays a crucial aspect on which technologies have been focusing on in order to save costs and minimize energy waste. This goal can be reached by means of an energy resource scheduling strategy provided by a suitable optimization technique. To improve the efficacy of the home appliance for energy management lot of study have been made. For smart ...