Recent advances in sensing techniques enabled the possibility to gain precise information about switched-on devices in smart home environments. One is particularly interested in exploring different patterns of electrical usage of indoor appliances and using them to predict activities. This in turns results with many useful applications like inferring effective energy saving procedures. The nece...

In this paper, for efficient energy consumption through the residential demand response in the smart grid, an optimization algorithm, which can provide a schedule plan for the home appliance usages, is proposed. In order to minimize the average electricity price based on the time-varying electricity price in conjunction with the peak hourly load, which decides the capacity of the electric suppl...

Waste home appliances have become new urban polluters because of the replacement appliances; however, they are also recyclable resources. To regulate recycling appliances, Japanese government has issued ‘Household Appliances Recycling Law’, which clearly defines responsibilities manufacturers, retailers, consumers, governments and other entities involved in process waste hou...

A low cost Short Message System (SMS) based Home security system equipped with motion, smoke, temperature, humidity and light sensors has been studied and tested. The sensors are controlled by a microprocessor PIC 18F4520 through the SMS having password protection code for the secure operation. The user is able to switch light and the appliances and get instant feedback. Also in cases of emerge...

The project discussed here is designed to control and monitor the home appliances via smart phone using (ESP-32) Wi-Fi. All sensor are connected internet ESP-32 microcontroller. core system of this work embraced from blynk framework. Smart automation (or) process having over domestic like fan, light. Home through Internet Things (IoT) plays an important role by reducing energy consumed applianc...

This paper describes the deployment of speech technologies in STARHome, a fully functional smart home prototype. We make use of speech and speaker recognition technologies to provide three voice services, namely, voice command for controlling home appliances, voice biometric for entrancedoor access control, and service customization (speaker-loaded command control). Several ergonomic constraint...

In this paper, we present some aspects of the project “Intelligent Sweet Home” that is focused on development of human-machine interaction in the smart house for assisting the elderly and the handicapped. In this study, we propose a conception and a strategy to give active services for a convenient daily life and to control the robot and home appliances human-friendly.

Although there exist many middlewares such as Havi, Jini, LonWorks, UPnP, and SLP, new middlewares specialized for diverse information appliances are expected to appear continuously as home networks evolve. In this paper, we first investigate an integrated architecture for supporting interoperability among heterogeneous middlewares on home networks. We then propose and implement a user-oriented...

A home network system consists of multiple networked appliances, intended to provide more convenient and comfortable living for home users. Before being deployed, one has to guarantee the correctness, the safety and the security of the system. Here, we present the approach chosen to validate the Java implementation of one home network system. We relies on the Java Modeling Language (JML), to fo...

Users will be able to access ubiquitously present appliances anywhere and anytime through home network. For this, we need middleware that provides a highlevel abstraction, self-configuration, and guarantees the interoperability among middleware. However, most home network middleware does not ensure interoperability with different middleware. This paper presents the UHNM architecture, which guar...