Liquid crystal displays (LCDs) with highly interactive graphical user interfaces (GUIs) are replacing the traditional “mechanical” human-machine interfaces (HMIs) currently found on most home appliances. This paper explores these technologies, as well as Altera, Altia, and Echelon’s innovative, total-solution architecture for delivering low-cost, high-performance HMIs on virtually any home appl...

Attracting foreign investment is one of the most important policies of the Iranian government for improving economic conditions. Nevertheless, despite the government and the Ministry of Industry's emphasis as well as the efforts of Iranian companies to attract foreign partners, this is less common in Iranian home appliance industry, which indicates the risks for foreign investors. Accordingly, ...

Home Network System(HNS), which connects home appliances and sensors to networks, has been researched actively. HNS makes it possible to remote-control and monitor home appliances. However, use of these services has been limited to home appliances and sensors in HNS.In this paper, we present integrated services combining RSS documents and HNS with our RSS conversion service. In our service, the...

In modern days, we must use various high-tech machineries and equipments to get our jobs done and make the life easier. These machineries should be controlled by the homeowner from any location as the homeowner might be away from home at workplace or traveling in a different place in the weekend. Thus a system of remote monitoring and controlling are very much necessary. Smart home is one of th...

In coming years residential consumers will face real-time electricity tariffs with energy prices varying day to day, and effective energy saving will require automation – a recommender system, which learns consumer’s preferences from her actions. A consumer chooses a scenario of home appliance use to balance her comfort level and the energy bill. We propose a Bayesian learning algorithm to esti...

In this work, we propose a Realistic Scheduling Mechanism (RSM) to reduce user frustration and enhance appliance utility by classifying appliances with respective constraints and their time of use effectively. Algorithms are proposed regarding functioning of home appliances. A 24 hour time slot is divided into four logical sub-time slots, each composed of 360 min or 6 h. In these sub-time slots...

Several academic and industrial research groups are working to deploy home-automation systems and to improve their user interfaces. Based on user studies and prototype implementation, this paper presents the development of an innovating appliance that incorporates interactive services of leisure and information, offered through a high-quality user interface on the surface of a mirror. This appl...