We propose a model of the household where the transmission mechanism between home appliances and women’s labor supply is identical to the one in Greenwood, Seshadri, and Yorukoglu (2005) with one important exception. We explicitly model firms’ pricing and output choices in the appliances sector and thus, the price of home appliances is determined endogenously by the laws of supply and demand ra...

Home automation is a wide and varied field that involves devices as small as temperature, light and motion sensor, and as powerful as modern home appliances. In today’s world technology is available for home automation but these technologies are incompatible with each other and addresses only communication and physical media, the main objective of this work is to facilitate the user to control ...

In this paper, we address the problem of predicting the usage of home appliances where a key challenge is to model the everyday routine of homeowners and the inter–dependency between the use of different appliances. In particular, given an efficient day–ahead prediction of electrical usage, home energy management systems can suggest homeowners when is the best time to run appliances in order to...

The idea of the Internet of Things (IoT) has turned out to be increasingly prominent in the cuttingedge period of innovation than at any other time. From little family unit gadgets to extensive modernmachines, the vision of IoT has made it conceivable to interface the gadgets with the physical worldaround them. This expanding prominence has likewise made the IoT gadgets and ap...

Home automation refers to control appliances and their parameters like ON and OFF, speed, volume and dimming in a home. ICT (Information Communication Technology) have been increasingly visible into our surroundings in the past few years. Home automation is judged on the basis of simplicity, protection and power consumption effectiveness. Pattern password based protection is being implemented t...