with the aim of reducing cost of electricity consumption and peak load reduction, tools requirement for better managing electricity consumption have become inevitable in recent years. smart home has some equipment which are controllable and this ability is used for increasing comfort and minimizing electricity cost for residence. as a key component of smart home , electric vehicle(ev) ,increase...

The application scenario for the ubiquitous home environment is proposed in this paper. The scenario is made using smart home appliances and an intelligent agent. The smart home appliances can communicate with each other through sensor networks and share the context via a home server. The intelligent agent autonomously learns preference of the house owner by analyzing the context data, and cont...

This paper focuses on an approach to build ontology for home energy management domain which is compatible with Suggested Upper Merged Ontology (SUMO). Our starting point in doing so was to study general classifications of home electrical appliances provided by various home appliances vendors and manufacturers. Various vendors and manufacturers use their own arbitrary classification instead of u...

In the future, micro processors will be embedded in various appliances such as home appliances, digital AV appliances, and personal appliances. These appliances will be connected to various types of networks, such as Internet, and communicate with each other. The communication of appliances would integrate some services provided by these appliances and make new services. The future home computi...

We present some evidence from the U.S. Census about the market concentration in the home appliances sector (e.g., four-firm concentration ratio and Herfindahl-Hirshman index) which suggests that competition in this sector, rather than being perfect, is better described by an oligopoly structure. We develop a general equilibrium three-sector growth model (home, market, appliances) where the pric...

Nowadays, various kinds of smart home appliances are widely deployed in our daily life. These embedded, networked, and programmable appliances could be accessed through various methods, but may not be integrated together due to the different kinds of home network protocols on which these appliances are deployed. On the other hand, with the penetration of mobile devices, people could leverage th...

Using the price for recycling used home appliances as a variable in the decision-making process, this paper studies the pricing decision-making process of the home appliances enterprises when a wholesale and retail price for the green home appliances have already been determined by other methods. In consideration of the influences of the effective recycle behavior of the used home appliances to...

Using the price for recycling used home appliances as a variable in the decision-making process, this paper studies the pricing decision-making process of the home appliances enterprises when a wholesale and retail price for the green home appliances have already been determined in advance. Considering the influences of the effective recycle behavior of the used home appliances to the whole sup...

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...

All common household devices are infrared compatible and have separate remote to control them. With the advancement of the society and smart home, the demand of home appliances are increasing resulting in the increase in remote controls for them. This paper proposes an approach to completely remove the remote and use our android mobile with infrared port facility to control the home appliances....