The main objective of this work is to design and construct a microcomputer based system: to control electric appliances such as light, fan, heater, washing machine, motor, TV, etc. The paper discusses two major approaches to control home appliances. The first involves controlling home appliances using timer option. The second approach is to control home appliances using voice command. Moreover,...

-Today we are living in 21 century where automation is playing important role in human life. Home automation allows us to control household appliances like light, door, fan, AC etc. It also provides home security and emergency system to be activated. Home automation not only refers to reduce human efforts but also energy saving and time efficiency. The main objective of home automation and secu...

Controlling appliances is a main part of automation. The main object of Home automation is to provide a wireless communication link of home appliances to the remote user. The main objective of this work is to make such a system which controls the home appliances remotely. This paper discusses two methods of controlling home appliances one is via voice to text SMS and other is to use the mobile ...

—The Internet of things (IoT) applications are becoming one of the emerging smart grid enabling technologies. Smart home appliances are one the beneficiary of such applications. Machine-to-Machine and Man-to-Machine are the basic IoT communication platforms that enable home appliances to communicate with each other to be more efficiently operated. In a recent search for the IoT communication p...

A Robotic User Interface (RUI) is a concept wherein robots are used as interfaces for human behavior. We have developed a RUI system for communications and given it the appearance of a teddy bear. This system allows interpersonal communications using robots as physical avatars. In this paper, we propose a new use of the RUI as a physical agent for control of home appliances. This use of a RUI e...

In this paper the use of robots as intelligent appliances is discussed. A number of advertised systems are reviewed and their basic characteristics analyzed. Open issues in terms of navigation, user interfaces, robustness, price are discussed as a basis for issues for future research to enable commercial delivery of such systems.

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...

This paper presents the recent results achieved by AIM consortium [AIM, 2008] in developing and demonstrating a new information and communication technologies (ICT) architecture for modelling, virtualising and managing the energy consumption of home appliances. The architecture aims at fostering a harmonised technological frame for profiling and optimizing the energy consumption patterns of hom...