As Internet is becoming popular to everyone recently, demands for higher-quality services such as VOD and home networking have been increasing. Especially, home networking system can interconnect and control home appliances which use different protocols via Internet. This means that a common protocol to communicate with each other and a new system architecture to implement the common protocol a...

Smart switching system is designed for smart home control applications. The system uses real time programmable logic controller (PLC) for switching the electrical appliances. Electrical appliance is a part of our daily needs for mankind. When such needs are in a very high demand, the user’s requirement is also increasing to access their electrical appliances in a more flexible way and also safe...

Non Intrusive Load Monitoring (NILM) is the method of obtaining information about appliance-level power consumption inside a building from voltage and/or current measurements made at a central location in the electrical system. The system that does this kind of power disaggregation typically relies on some sort of training step to help it recognize what types of changes in the observed signal c...

The authors investigated the association of early-life exposure to indoor air pollution with neuropsychological development in preschoolers and assessed whether this association differs by glutathione-S-transferase gene (GSTP1) polymorphisms. A prospective, population-based birth cohort was set up in Menorca, Spain, in 1997– 1999 (n 1⁄4 482). Children were assessed for cognitive functioning (Mc...

Behind such automation, there is a lot of software controlling the appliances. This software, which is often referred to as services, applications, or bundles is supplied by a range of service provider businesses. Hence in a single home, appliances may be controlled by a multitude of services, which are offered by a wide variety of different providers. Moreover, some services may require the us...