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...

A non-intrusive appliances load monitoring system has been developed to ascertain the behavior of each electrical appliance in a household by disaggregating the total household load demand. This system does not need to intrude into a house when metering power consumption of each appliance. Therefore, the system has significant cost advantages and is less troublesome to the customers. This paper...

Non-intrusive load monitoring (NILM) identifies used appliances in a total power load according to their individual load characteristics. In this paper we propose an evolutionary optimization algorithm to identify appliances, which are modeled as on/off appliances. We evaluate our proposed evolutionary optimization by simulation with Matlab, where we use a random total load and randomly generat...

In this paper we concern ourselves with the problem of minimizing the standby power consumption in some of the house hold appliances. Here we propose a remote controlled device through which we could reduce the amount of standby power consumed by the electrical appliances connected to it. This device provides an option of controlling each of the appliances connected to it individually or as a w...

While the conceptual architecture of enterprise information logistics has been stable since the late 1980ies, IT hardware has been subject to radical change recently. Since in-memory appliances as a new technology might address many challenges of information logistics, we discuss its potentials first. Based on a case study of a global automotive company, we then compare potentials with actual a...

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...

The correction of Class II and Class III malocclusions is often hampered by the use of appliances that require the collaboration of the patient (headgear, Delaire mask, elastics or the wearing of a removable appliance). Non-compliance therapy involves the use of appliances which minimize the need for such co-operation and attempt to maximize the predictability of results. The aim of this articl...

Smart electricity meters record the aggregate consumption of an entire building. However, appliance-level information is more useful than aggregate data for a variety of purposes including energy management and load forecasting. Disaggregation aims to decompose an aggregate signal into appliance-by-appliance information. Existing disaggregation systems tend to perform well for single-state appl...

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...

Fifty-two patients (35 female, 17 male) completed questionnaires related to their experiences during the first 7 days of appliance wear (31 fixed, 21 removable) and then after 14 and 90 days. Most problems relating to discomfort and pain resolved within 4-7 days. The problems encountered with fixed appliances were generally more severe than with removable appliances. Swallowing and speech were ...