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An Intercommunication Home Energy Management System with Appliance Recognition in Home Network

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In present days there are wide varieties of household electric appliances along with different power consumption habits of consumers, making identifying electric appliances without presetting difficulty. This paper introduces smart appliance management system to recognize electric appliances in home networks, which uses sensing devices that measure current to calculate the power consumption of the appliances. The system will set the characteristics and categories of each electric appliance, and then uses the classifications of the electronic energy features in order to recognize different appliances. The system searches the cluster data while eliminating noise for recognition functionality and error detection mechanism or the electric appliances using the current clustering algorithm. Afterwards the recognition are used to build a control list of appliances on the platform to provide appliance intercommunication. Simultaneously, the household appliance automatic control services are integrated by the system to control appliances based on userspower consumption plans to realize a bidirectional monitoring services. In actual experiments, the proposed system achieves a recognition rate or 95% as well as successfully controls general household electric appliances in home network.

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This work has been partially supported by the Instituto de Telecomunicações, Next Generation Networks and Applications Group (NetGNA), Portugal, and by National Funding from the FCT Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia through the PEst-OE/EEI/LA0008/2011 Project.

Chin-Feng Lai’s research work in this paper is supported by project NSC 100-2511-S-197-004 conducted by National Ilan University under the sponsorship of the National Science Council (NSC), ROC.

Yueh-Min Huang’s research work in this paper is supported by project NSC 99RC13 conducted by National Cheng Kung University under the sponsorship of the National Science Council (NSC), ROC.

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  1. Department of Engineering Science, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan, Tainan, Republic of China

    Ying-Xun Lai & Yueh-Min Huang

  2. Instituto de Telecomunicações, University of Beira Interior, Beira, Portugal

    Joel José Puga Coelho Rodrigues

  3. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, 285 Old Westport Road, North Dartmout, USA

    Hong-Gang Wang

  4. Institute of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Ilan University, No. 1, Sec1, Shen-lung Road, I-Lan, 260, Taiwan, Republic of China

    Chin-Feng Lai

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Lai, YX., Rodrigues, J.J.P.C., Huang, YM. et al. An Intercommunication Home Energy Management System with Appliance Recognition in Home Network. Mobile Netw Appl 17, 132–142 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11036-011-0345-z

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