abstract background and aim: the aim of the present study was to evaluate the cephalometric changes in class ii division 1 mandibular deficient patients treated with farmand functional appliance.  methods and materials: twenty-seven subjects (17 girls and 10 boys) with the mean age of 11.1±1.4 years were involved in the present study. all the subjects were treated with farmand functional applia...

In order to fully exploit the concept of the Smart Home, challenges associated with multiple device management in consumer facing applications have to be addressed. Specific to this is the management of resource usage in the home via the improved utilisation of devices, this is achieved by integration with the wider environment they operate in. The traditional model of the isolated device no lo...

• Investigates how the choice of information visualization influences people in making sense data for domestic electricity consumption. Results experiment suggest that by using an area-based visualization, can gain a more accurate understanding much different appliances use. These results are important because display current smart meters tend to use time-series which we show be less effective ...

Home absence detection is an emerging field on smart home installations. Identifying whether or not the residents of house are present, important in numerous scenarios. Possible scenarios include but limited to: elderly people living alone, suffering from dementia, quarantine. The majority published papers focus either pressure/door sensors cameras order to detect outing events. Although aforem...

This paper describes the design, implementation, and testing of a wireless sensor and actuator network for monitoring the energy use of electric appliances in a home environment. The network includes energy measurement nodes and a central server, where the nodes read the energy use of connected appliance, and wirelessly report their readings to the central server for processing. The server disp...

This paper presents a knowledge modeling approach to improve domain-independency in Spoken Dialogue Systems (SDS) architectures. We aim to support task oriented dialogue management strategies via an easy to use interface provided by an adaptive Domain Knowledge Manager (DKM). DKM is a broker that centralizes the knowledge of the domain using a Knowledge Integration Process (KIP) that merges on-...

The integration of Photovoltaic (PV) system into home increasing the complexity of energy scheduling in smart home. But most of current papers concentrate on reducing the payment of the customer. There are few papers studying improve the consumption of PV energy to lead to environment advantages. This paper presents a new method for household energy management with PV system. This work address ...