With the continuous evolution of mobile communication systems, 5G technology has become a key driver for a smart home appliance ecosystem. Fifth-generation technology may create opportunities and threats for the home appliance industry in the stock m...
Electricity consumption in homes is on the rise due to the increasing prevalence of home appliances and longer hours spent indoors. Home energy management systems (HEMSs) are emerging as a solution to reduce electricity consumption and efficiently ma...
Brain–computer interfaces (BCIs) allow patients with paralysis to control external devices by mental commands. Recent advances in home automation and the Internet of things may extend the horizon of BCI applications into daily living environmen...
One of the important aspects of realizing smart cities is developing smart homes/buildings and, from the energy perspective, designing and implementing an efficient smart home area energy management system (HAEMS) is vital. To be effective, the HAEMS...
The emergence of smart devices and smart appliances has highly favored the realization of the smart home concept. Modern smart home systems handle a wide range of user requirements. Energy management and energy conservation are in the spotlight when...
Energy consumption is increasing daily, and with that comes a continuous increase in energy costs. Predicting future energy consumption and building an effective energy management system for smart homes has become essential for many industrialists to...
Predicting errors in home appliances is crucial for maintaining the reliability and efficiency of smart homes. However, there is a significant lack of such data on appliance malfunctions that can be used in developing effective anomaly detection mode...
Carbon reduction programs are being introduced for carbon neutrality and energy transition to clean energy sources in various sectors, such as energy, buildings, transportation, and agriculture. In the residential electricity energy of the energy sec...
A mathematical model for nonlinear loads, that contains, in its design, a switching power supply is presented. The model was tested in home appliances operating in a Direct Current Home Nanogrid (DCHN). Compact Fluorescent Lamps (CFLs) and LED lamps...
Home appliances connected to Internet-of-Things (IoT) platforms have been extensively installed in smart homes. In this context, home energy management systems (HEMSs) have emerged as a viable solution for reducing energy costs. Although several stud...
In recent years, the increment of distributed electricity generation based on renewable energy sources and improvement of communication technologies have caused the development of next-generation power grids known as smart grids. The structures of sm...
The surge in e-commerce and the COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically driven the demand for home appliances. However, this surge has also resulted in a proportional increase in electrical accidents. Furthermore, the current product manual does not provi...
This paper presents a hierarchical deep reinforcement learning (DRL) method for the scheduling of energy consumptions of smart home appliances and distributed energy resources (DERs) including an energy storage system (ESS) and an electric vehicle (E...
Within the context of a smart home, detecting the operating status of appliances in the environment plays a pivotal role, estimating power consumption, issuing overuse reminders, and identifying faults. The traditional contact-based approaches requir...
Given the increasing competition among household appliance enterprises, accurately predicting household appliance demand is crucial for enterprise supply chain management and marketing. This paper proposes a combined model integrating deep learning a...
A significant portion of home energy consumption is due to concealed faults and the inefficient usage of home appliances, usually because of user ignorance and a lack of proactive maintenance strategies. In this paper, ENACT, a digital-twin-based sys...
Extensive energy consumption has incurred global environmental problems such as climate change. Home appliances are highly used products and consume large amounts of energy. When widely applied, energy-efficient home appliances promote energy efficie...
This study investigates the factors influencing the buying intention of energy-efficient home appliances in Bangladesh. It also develops a conceptual framework that integrates additional constructs with the theory of planned behavior (TPB) and borrow...
The current transformation of power systems is aiming towards distributed source integration and general decentralization. Renewable energy sources and support of local energy supply create conditions for widespread use of new technologies and smart...
The residential sector is a major contributor to the global energy demand. The energy demand for the residential sector is expected to increase substantially in the next few decades. As the residential sector is responsible for almost 40% of overall...
Knowledge graph technology holds significant importance for efficient fault diagnosis in household appliances. However, the scarcity of public fault diagnosis data and the lack of automated knowledge extraction pose major challenges to knowledge grap...
Rising electricity prices and the greater penetration of electricity consumption in end-uses have prompted efforts to set up data-driven methodologies to optimise energy consumption and foster user engagement in demand-side management strategies. The...
Maintenance of home appliances can be tedious. Maintenance work can be physically demanding and it is not always easy to know the cause of a malfunctioning appliance. Many users need to motivate themselves to perform maintenance work and consider it...
The proliferation of low-power consumer electronic appliances (LPCEAs) is on the rise in smart homes in order to save energy. On the flip side, the current harmonics induced due to these LPCEAs pollute low-voltage distribution systems’ (LVDSs’) suppl...
Disabled and elderly populations may not fully appreciate the benefits of advanced technologies and every-day products due to accessibility issues. However, the diverse characteristics of disabled and elderly users make conducting user research a cha...
Rapid online trading expansion and the bloom of internet technologies has raised the importance of effective product video presentations for online retailers. This article developed a model for the impacts of video presentations on purchase intention...
More recently, researchers and the industrial community have started researching DC appliances and DC microgrids as a means of increasing the end-to-end efficiency of systems. Given the fluctuating nature of renewable resources, energy storage become...
Maintaining a fair use of energy consumption in smart homes with many household appliances requires sophisticated algorithms working together in real time. Similarly, choosing a proper schedule for appliances operation can be used to reduce inappropr...
Home appliances are considered to account for a large portion of smart homes’ energy consumption. This is due to the abundant use of IoT devices. Various home appliances, such as heaters, dishwashers, and vacuum cleaners, are used every day. It...
In this work, we propose a Realistic Scheduling Mechanism (RSM) to reduce user frustration and enhance appliance utility by classifying appliances with respective constraints and their time of use effectively. Algorithms are proposed regarding functi...
In the past few years, home appliances have been influenced by the latest technologies and changes in consumer trends. One of the most desired gadgets of this time is a universal remote control for gestures. Hand gestures are the best way to control...
With smart appliances, it has been possible to achieve low-cost electricity bills in smart-grid-tied homes including photovoltaic panels and an energy-storage system. Apparently, many factors are important in achieving this and the minimization probl...
The European goal of decarbonization drives design toward high-performance buildings that maximize the use of renewable sources. Therefore, the European RED II Directive and Italian law raise the minimum renewable share required for new buildings and...
Nonintrusive appliance load monitoring (NIALM) allows disaggregation of total electricity consumption into particular appliances in domestic or industrial environments. NIALM systems operation is based on processing of electrical signals acquired at...
The growing demand for electricity and the constant increase in electricity rates have intensified the interest of residential and non-residential energy consumers to reduce their energy consumption. The introduction of non-conventional renewable ene...
Recent energy efficiency and conservation programs have created an unprecedented demand for home energy management systems (HEMS) in the residential sector aimed at reducing electricity consumption and saving on electricity bills. This paper gives a...
Nowadays, the development of the Internet of Things (IoT) concept has increased the interest in some technologies, one of which is the detection of anomalies in home appliances before they occur. In this work, in order to contribute to the works that...
When we develop voice-activated human-appliance interface systems in smart homes, named entity recognition (NER) is an essential tool for extracting execution targets from natural language commands. Previous studies on NER systems generally include s...
Users are increasing their demands on the home appliances they utilize by requiring them to be powered anywhere and anytime. In order to satisfy this need, wireless power transfer helps transfer energy between objects without conductors. For domestic...
Team Missouri’s 2009 Solar Decathlon entry featured a revolutionary home automation system, Chameleon, promoting both convenience and energy savings. This was accomplished using the typical controls of a convenience based automation system, while mai...
This paper presents a novel machine learning framework useful for optimizing energy consumption in households. Home appliances have a great potential to optimize electricity consumption by mitigating peaks in the grid load or peaks in renewable energ...
Increasingly, renewable energy resources, energy storage systems (ESSs), and demand response programs (DRPs) are being discussed due to environmental concerns and smart grid developments. An innovative home appliance scheduling scheme is presented in...
The relationship between domestic demand and exports has remained the focus of the academic world for a long time. A large body of research has confirmed the promotion effect of international trade on domestic demand. This study uses a difference-in-...
In this paper, we report a study having as a main goal the obtaining of a method that can provide an accurate forecast of the residential electricity consumption, refining it up to the appliance level, using sensor recorded data, for residential smar...
Despite the increasing utilization of renewable energy resources, such as solar and wind energy, most residential buildings still rely on conventional energy supply by public utility services. Such utility services often use time-of-use energy pricin...
This article discusses the interactions among project management, social capital, and organizational efficiency in the cross-departmental synergetic design of home appliance enterprises, with the goal of providing a reference for related enterprises&...
Increasing consumer awareness on significant environmental challenges, in addition to forthcoming regulations, is driving domestic appliance manufacturers to adopt an Ecodesign approach to more effectively and significantly reduce the environmental i...
Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring (NILM) refers to the analysis of the aggregated current and voltage measurements of Home Electrical Appliances (HEAs) recorded by the house electrical panel. Such methods aim to identify each HEA for a better control of...
In this era of intense global competition, supply chains are facing challenges in coping with emerging market issues. Within diverse industries worldwide, supply chains are experiencing accelerated reconfiguration, with one of the most notable transf...
The smart home culture is rapidly increasing across the globe and driving smart home users toward utilizing smart appliances. Smart television (TV) is one such appliance that is embedded with smart technology. The users of smart TV have their interes...
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