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...

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This paper focuses on identifying which appliance is currently operating by analyzing electrical load signature for home energy monitoring system. The identification framework is comprised of three steps. Firstly, specific appliance features, or signatures, were chosen, which are DC (Duty Cycle), SO (Slope of On-state), VO (Variance of On-state), and ZC (Zero Crossing) by reviewing observations...

The objective of this paper is proposing a developed balanced scorecard approach to measure supply chain performance with the aim of creating more value in manufacturing and business operations. The most important metrics have been selected based on experts’ opinion acquired by in-depth interviews focused on creating more value for stakeholders. Using factor analysis method, a survey research h...

Load monitoring is the practice of measuring electrical signals in a domestic environment in order to identify which electrical appliances are consuming power. One reason for developing a load monitoring system is to reduce power consumption by increasing consumers’ awareness of which appliances consume the most energy. Another example of an application of load monitoring is activity sensing in...

In Sub-Saharan Africa, there are active debates about whether increases in energy access should be driven by investments in electric grid infrastructure or small-scale “home solar” systems (e.g., solar lanterns and solar home systems). We summarize the results of a household electrical appliance survey and describe how households in rural Kenya differ in terms of appliance ownership and aspirat...

One third of accidents occur in the home, and the age group most at risk is the under 5s. Home appliances play a part in many of these accidents. In 1986, 27 accidents in which a tumble drier was involved were reported to the home accident surveillance system. Most of these injuries resulted from falls off or against the appliance, and only one burn, to a person leaning against the door, was re...

Energy consumption feedback with an appliance-level system can reduce by a maximum of 12%. In this study, we proposed data acquisition and training framework for configuring deep learning based on Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring (NILM) personalized energy system. To construct dataset, aggregation active power from four types home appliances (refrigerator, induction, TV, washing machine) was perfo...

Interest in a home network is increasing in accordance with enhancing functionalities of household-electric-appliances. A wireless communication standard, IEEE 802.15.4 attracts attention as a communication media of the home network. This paper proposes a network protocol based on IEEE 802.15.4, which is designed in consideration of requirements and features of the home network. This protocol p...