With the aim of reducing cost of electricity consumption and peak load reduction, tools requirement for better managing electricity consumption have become inevitable in recent years. Smart home has some equipment which are controllable and this ability is used for increasing comfort and minimizing electricity cost for residence. As a key component of smart home , Electric Vehicle(EV) ,increase...

We present a location detection system for tracking multimedia appliances and users within a wireless local area network (WLAN) enabled home environment. Multimedia appliances communicate with a central gateway via low cost network interface devices called Buddies. The gateway can locate the users and appliances within the accuracy of a room and use the location information to automatically red...

Peripheral is the electronic equipment connected by cable to the CPU of a computer. Today the art of computer science lies in connecting computers with peripherals. In many circumstances, it looks more like magic than art. Due to the rapid technological development in computer, the speed and capacity of computer system have increased very much. So, it is possible to connect many peripherals wit...

Smart home automation system is increasingly used due to the wide manufacturer brands and various available technologies. From a social point of view, residents are admitted to smart homes for comfort, luxury, improving quality of live, and for providing security against intrusion and burglars. Secondly, home automation is achieved using a single controller, monitoring and the controlling many ...

The global dwelling energy management problem can be formalized as an optimization problem of energy consumption/production. An optimal solution for the home energy management problem is usually solved by centralized solvers. The solver gets the totality of the thermal model of the dwelling but also each appliance composing the system. Nevertheless, this centralized resolution has some limits d...

Home automation commercial technologies have been deployed as smart grids have extensively grown. Home automation raises the fact that home security needs an abundant amount of attention. In fact, with home automation, all connected appliances are in a critical condition since they are connected to the Internet. The term of cyber security can become an optimal explanation of the most concerned ...

The recent ubiquitous/pervasive technologies allow general household appliances to be connected within the network at home. The home network system (HNS, for short) is comprised of such networked appliances to provide various services and applications for home users. The great advantage of HNS lies in integrating (or orchestrating) features of multiple appliances, which yields more value-added ...

The expansion of renewable energies triggers problems in today’s energy system, which cause increasing demand for flexibility. Demand Side Management (DSM) supports the integration of renewable energy sources into the energy system. To examine the DSM potential for relevant household appliances (here: dishwasher, washing machine, dryer) precisely, their characteristics, i. e. load profile, time...

This paper proposes a universal device controller which enables people to control day to day devices and appliances around them with a vastly reduced complexity and effort. This paper details the implementation of a unified hardware platform for monitoring, controlling and automating everyday electronic appliances and devices. The proposed solution is flexible and capable of expansion. The univ...

This paper presents real time information based energy management algorithms to reduce electricity cost and peak to average ratio (PAR) while preserving user comfort in a smart home. We categorize household appliances into thermostatically controlled (tc), user aware (ua), elastic (el), inelastic (iel) and regular (r) appliances/loads. An optimization problem is formulated to reduce electricity...