Providing energy conservation services becomes a hot research topic because more and more people attach importance to environmental protection. This research proposes a framework that consists of four process models: appliance recognition, activity-appliances model, unattended appliances detection, and energy conservation service. Appliance recognition model can recognizes the operating states ...

In this paper, we deal with the short term prediction of the domestic electrical appliances power consumption. We go further than the prediction of on/off activities of appliances to the prediction of a bounded interval of consumed power. The short term prediction of appliances consumptions is an unavoidable problem to solve when constructing optimal schedules of appliance consumptions. For rel...

This paper describes the Smart Operation of Networked Appliances (SONA) system which realizes the autonomous and asynchronous operation of networked appliances by using mobile agents. In SONA system, the mobile agents operate networked appliances in place of user’s direct manipulation. Existing appliances operation systems such as remote controllers require users to input their demands synchron...

This paper proposes a quantitative recording system for users’ operation on home appliances. This system records automatically Infraredsignal (Ir-signal) from remote controller of the appliances and pictures of TV Output from the appliances simultaneously. The system acquires the Ir-signal and the pictures without particular interfaces or modification of appliances. Evaluator of appliances is a...

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...

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...