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By applying power usage statistics from smart meters, users are able to save energy in their homes or control smart appliances via home automation systems. However, owing to security and privacy concerns, it is recommended that smart meters (SM) should not have direct communication with smart appliances. In this paper, we propose a design for a smart meter gateway (SMGW) associated with a two-phase...
Home sensor nodes are devices embedded in home appliances and are designed to sense environments, to process collected information, to perform a specific task, and to cooperate with other units. The advances of VLSI technologies and wireless sensor networks (WSN) turn the inspirational idea of intelligent home appliances into reality. In this paper, we focus on a category of home appliances, Smart...
The smart home concept brings innovation and convenience to our every day's life style at home. Without context awareness, smart home applications cannot offer services that can adapt to users?? dynamic situations; they also fail to give preferential treatment for users?? various preferences. Such design paradigm forces human to live in the world of machines rather than a human oriented world. The...
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