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This article approaches a practical experimental solution for the limited energy resources issue of the off-grid households. By using electrical sensors, a customized electronic board and embedded open-source devices, we could conceive a smart system that can monitor instantaneous power consumption, schedule large consumers to run at peak solar power production and also control the backup hydroelectric...
Globally, many developing countries face several challenges in their energy sectors which could still exaggerate the global burden of non-communicable diseases. In South Africa, clean energy is available for most people in urban areas. However, continued reliance on unclean energy sources continues to increase exposure to harmful pollutants in enclosed cooking and heating spaces. Burning of coal and...
The author aims to reduce the number of disasters drastically in order to come up with a safer and secure environment. This paper describes a system which detects the possible disasters that one can face in a household or work-space. It is an Arduino based Disaster Detection System that contains sensors for detecting the disasters. This system is new in the sense that it incorporates detection of...
User acceptance plays a pivotal role in success of all IS projects. Yet, most of the e-government endeavors worldwide have fallen short of their potential. Online transactions with public administrations are plagued with concerns of data protection and privacy resulting in reluctance to engage in egovernment. Although trust is confirmed to be an effective instrument for dealing with the anxiety of...
Food grain crops are the focal point of household food production in communal areas of Zimbabwe. These have remained the prime target of national agricultural policies. Prioritization of cereals has been done at the expense of horticultural products’ potential to stablise communal food systems. This chapter reflected on how local communities in Uzumba Maramba Pfungwe district of Zimbabwe transformed...
We estimate a collective time allocation model, where Dutch, Surinamese/Antillean and Turkish households behave as if both spouses maximize a household utility function. We assume that paid labor and housework are the endogenous choice variables and furthermore consider household production. Surinamese/Antillean and Turkish women differ from Dutch women because they value (joint) household production...
In his chapter, Fábio de Castro provides a detailed analysis of the diversity in the economic strategies deployed by riverine households in the Lower Amazon. The empirical data used in his analysis was collected by means of the Community Statistical Census (CEC), a participative methodology based on community meetings, having encompassed 172 communities and 8,570 households in the region under focus...
Efficient use of electricity in each of the sectors of the national economy is becoming increasingly important. Energy efficiency refers concerns both the wider energy and climate policy, as well as being important determinant of the cost of manufacturing companies (and therefore their profits) and of the socio-economic development. The consequence of the irrational use of energy is excessive consumption...
Energy consumption is a vital component in day-today life. Visualising energy consumption, recommending energy conserving strategies and, controlling the appliances are some of the widely considered means to motivate and/or to help end-users at household to conserve energy. However, the conventional energy visualisation applications have certain drawbacks, such as lack of energy consumption location,...
This paper investigates the possibility of utilizing household generated biomass as a source of renewable energy to meet partial energy demand in the urban household in Bangladesh. The work proposes utilization of biogas generated by anaerobic digestion from urban waste using a small scale biogas digester. Three different systems that use biogas for operation, namely — gas operated light bulbs, gas...
This paper introduces a Intelligent Household Control System based on GSM wireless platform and Internet network double nets. The system adopts Atmega128 of ATMEL as the master chip, respectively through the SPI interface and UART interface connected to the network module and GSM module. Making the two parts collaborative work not interfere with each other. By the system, the user can real-time monitor...
This study analyzed the domestic tourism demand for household in Chinese Taipei from 2000 to 2008 with the Almost Ideal Demand System (AIDS) model. The results show that the domestic tourism demand has slack and busy seasons. Both the SARS attack in 2003 and the financial crisis in 2008 significantly affected the domestic tourism demand. Such results could be referred to by the industry in developing...
Roof rainwater, with relatively good water quality, large runoff and convenient collection, has high value of utilization in island. The form of roof rainwater utilization in China is mainly collection and reuse, which is comparatively simple relative to various methods that some countries have, such as roof greening, underground infiltration, collection and reuse and etc. Based on analysis of water...
For the alpine region of household biogas fermentation period is too long, less gas situation, they proposed and designed for the rural household of two-phase anaerobic fermentation equipment. Through Reasonable technical programs, control the change of two-phase anaerobic fermentation in the acidogenic phase, to determine the course of two-phase anaerobic fermentation temperature, PH value, factors...
In the frame of Intelligent Home project a data base of food products was created. Supposing that all of incoming and outgoing products will be detected through a RFID recognition, the developed expert system supports the optimization of food consumption in the household. The expert system applies the forward chaining or the backward chaining inference method in depend on current problem. The paper...
In this paper, I developed a calibrated optimal dynamic asset allocation model with housing rental market, housing adjustment costs, mortgage collateral borrowing requirement, and try to study the relationship between homeownership and households' portfolio choice. The result showed that the homeownership is hump-shaped in ages, and the liquidity of housing has significant impact on optimal portfolio...
The new contribution of this paper is that we proposed a Spatial Strategic Plan Support System (SSP-SS). This SSP-SS can integrate the planning works conducted by different planning departments into a same platform and hereby support decision-making of local government on urban development from the viewpoint of sustainable development.
A household wind generation system connected with the grid are advanced in this paper, in which a diode rectifier, a boost DC/DC converter and a single-phase inverter paralleled with the grid are utilized, and a grid-connected operation mode without power injection is adopted. A double-loop control method with a current loop and a voltage loop is applied to the inverter so that the inverter feed no...
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