The design and development of a smart monitoring and controlling system for household electrical appliances in real time has been reported in this paper. The system principally monitors electrical parameters of household appliances such as voltage and current and subsequently calculates the power consumed. The novelty of this system is the implementation of the controlling mechanism of applianc...

This paper describes an XML-based language for describing the functions of appliances, such as televisions, VCRs, copiers, microwave ovens, and even manufacturing equipment. Our description language is designed to be concise, easy to use, and contain no presentation information. It has been used to describe more than twenty diverse appliances. The functional descriptions written in our language...

When it comes to conserving electricity, it is crucial for users to know how much energy is consumed by individual appliances. However, the technical feedback provided by existing energy consumption feedback systems in the form of dry numbers and intangible units is not appropriate for most users. To address this shortcoming we developed PowerPedia, a system that provides behavior-influencing f...

Moses describes an appliance termed a "passivator" which supports the mandible in an anterior and slightly open bite yet neither allows nor causes undesirable orthodontic tooth movements. This appliance is reported to support the patient’s mandible during sleep, prevent collapse of the pharyngeal musculature, allow greater volume of space for tongue activity and prevent incorrect swallowing and...

An intelligent agent which is a software component for the efficient home network system is proposed in this paper. The agent consists of six modules such as the Agent Manager, the Data Collector, the Execution Controller, the Data Storage, the Data Queue and the User Interface. The Agent Manager manages the tasks of modules, and the Data Collector collects the data from home appliances through...

Today’s Internet appliances feature user interface technologies almost unknown a few years ago: touch screens, styli, handwriting and voice recognition, speech synthesis, tiny screens, and more. This richness creates problems. First, different appliances use different languages: WML for cell phones; SpeechML, JSML, and VoxML for voice enabled devices such as phones; HTML and XUL for desktop com...

In this paper we propose an approach by which the energy efficiency of individual appliances can be estimated from an aggregate load. To date, energy disaggregation research has presented results for small data sets of 7 households or less, and as a result the generality of results are often unknown. In contrast, we have deployed household electricity sensors to 117 households and evaluated the...

INTRODUCTION In this study, we evaluated the effects of orthodontic appliances and an extracted maxillary first premolar on the esthetic evaluation of a smiling face according to the perceptions of orthodontists and laypeople. METHODS Standardized oblique photographs of a young woman with a pleasing smile were taken. The photos were edited by using digital imaging software to produce 10 combi...

There are many different home appliances in our home, for example Lamps, Television, DVD player, etc. Moreover, the appliances are usually controlled by different controller using IR (Infra-Red) signal. This brings our life many inconveniences, and many resources are wasted. Therefore, we propose an integrated controller. It can control these various appliances, only a single one. In order to r...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to assess the microbial changes in children with fixed orthodontic appliances compared with a control group of children without orthodontic treatment. MATERIAL AND METHODS Ninety-five children, aged between 12 and 16 years, participated in this study. Forty-eight subjects were fitted with fixed orthodontic appliances and forty-seven were free of any such ap...