Many of the systems developed to date for controlling home appliances remotely from outside have used a web server as the interface between the home network and the users. Although the user interface (UI) that uses a web server offers many advantages, this approach requires a fixed IP (Internet Protocol) address, and does not have a push function. Moreover, until the user gets reconnected to th...

Electric motors are the largest consumer of world electric energy, consuming more than twice as much as lighting, the next largest consumer. Electric motors account for between 43 and 46% of all global electricity consumption approximately. They give rise to about 6 040 Mt of CO2 emissions. End‐users approximately spend USD 565 billion per year on electricity [1]. In recent years...

This study contributes to the literature on supply chain coordination by coordinating the research and development (R&D) effort, retail price, and inventory decisions. It investigates a real case in the home appliance industry. The main purpose of this study is to examine the optimal values of R&D effort, pricing, and inventory decisions under decentralized and centralized structures. Then, a d...

Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) has been proposed for multimedia services and wide-area connectivity in smart home environments (SHEs). An important issue for SIP deployment in SHEs is network address translator (NAT) traversing. SIP and Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP) packets are delivered between an SHE (i.e., private IP network) and Internet (i.e., a public IP network) through an NAT fu...

We discuss in this paper the problem of simultaneous tracking, which exploits the synergy between location and movement to provide the information necessary for intelligent home appliance control. Our goal is to carry out accurate movement estimation for multiple people in a home environment. We propose an approach that uses information gathered using only passive infrared sensors commonly foun...

One of the striking aspects of world-wide-web is how it has empowered ordinary non-technical people to participate in a digital revolution by transforming the way services such as shopping, education and entertainment are offered and consumed. The proliferation of networked appliances, sensors and actuators, such as those found in digital homes heralds a similar ‘sea change’ in the capabilities...

We present some evidence from the U.S. Census about the market concentration in the home appliances sector (e.g., four-firm concentration ratio and Herfindahl-Hirshman index) which suggests that competition in this sector, rather than being perfect, is better described by an oligopoly structure. We develop a general equilibrium three-sector growth model (home, market, appliances) where the pric...

Refrigerator is one of the home appliance utilizing mechanical vapour compression cycle in it process. Performance of the system becomes main issue and many researches are still ongoing to evaluate and improve efficiency of the system. Therefore, this paper presents the development process of refrigerator test rig and performance analysis of a domestic refrigerator. The experiment platform whic...

Refrigerator is one of the home appliance utilizing mechanical vapour compression cycle in it process. Performance of the system becomes main issue and many researches are still ongoing to evaluate and improve efficiency of the system. Therefore, this paper presents the development process of refrigerator test rig and performance evaluation of a domestic refrigerator that has been used in Malay...

In the electricity sector, energy conservation through technological and behavioral change is estimated to have a savings potential of 123 million metric tons of carbon per year, which represents 20% of US household direct emissions in the United States. In this article, we investigate the effectiveness of nonprice information strategies to motivate conservation behavior. We introduce environme...