In this paper we propose a learning mechanism to build the behavior of electrical appliances in a smart home context. The aim of that mechanism is to reduce the consumption of appliances whose effect is delayed (for example the heating) while maximizing the inhabitants comfort. Our approach is based on a predictive model of home humans’ activities. That model is built from local information sen...

Home networking has been developing rapidly due to the increase of the internet users and the advent of digital economy. In this context, the quality and service under guarantee for internet intelligence electric home appliances has become quite important. Therefore, to guarantee the performance of the appliances, on-line testing for detecting latency faults should be performed. In this paper, ...

Household appliances have fast changed in the last decades and achieved an important role in the ordinary home daily activity, e.g. in assisting people during cooking, phone calls, house monitoring, etc. Pervasiveness and interoperability are interesting aspects related to domestic devices. The semantic web is here considered to make an infrastructural support for resource interoperability by p...

There are many different home appliances in our home, for example Lamps, Television, DVD player, etc. Moreover, the appliances are usually controlled by different controller using IR (Infra-Red) signal. This brings our life many inconveniences, and many resources are wasted. Therefore, we propose an integrated controller. It can control these various appliances, only a single one. In order to r...

Smart Home is one of emerging application domains of The Internet of Things. It minimizes user’s intervention in monitoring home settings and controlling home appliances. Mobile terminal has become an important part of Smart Home now. This paper presents an effective approach to solve the potential problems when using mobile terminal in Smart Home. In the smart home system, a kind of simple, ea...

Everyday appliances, including telephones, ovens, and home stereos, increasingly contain embedded computers to provide greater functionality. Unfortunately, as these appliances become more complex, their interfaces are becoming harder to use. At the same time, more people than ever are carrying computerized devices that can communicate, such as cellular telephones, personal digital assistants, ...

Many of the systems developed to date for controlling home appliances remotely from outside have used a web server as the interface between the home network and the users. Although the user interface (UI) that uses a web server offers many advantages, this approach requires a fixed IP (Internet Protocol) address, and does not have a push function. Moreover, until the user gets reconnected to th...

A different usability design approach is needed for the emerging class of home infotainment appliances, collectively referred to as the home media station (HMS). Mass-media theory, consumer electronics engineering, content creation and content distribution play a major role towards the human-centered design of home media appliances. Different audience behavior factors, such as the attention spa...

The proliferation of nonlinear electronic loads is increasing day by day, and it can anticipate an influx of newer technologies in this domain in the future. This article focuses on the impacts of various home nonlinear electric equipment on the power quality of electrical distribution system. It was studied the influence of operating mode on the harmonic pollution generated by nonlinear home a...

We are developing a novel home network system based upon the integration of information and energy. The system aims to analyze user behavior with a power-sensing network and provide various lifesupport services to manage power and electric appliances according to user behavior and preferences. This paper describes an electric appliance recognition method using power-sensing data measured by CEC...