Papers by Keyword: Smart House

Abstract: This paper presents a method for smart house electricity load control. The method, combined with TOU price and Real-time pricing, arranges various appliances and meets daily household electricity demand at the same time, so that to reduce the daily electricity consumption and realize Demand Response. First, this paper attempts to summarize problem witch need to be solved for realizing load control in a smart house. Second, the smart house load control problem was described as high-dimensional complex functions unconstrained optimization model and solved with Particle Swarm Optimization. Finally, design experiments used the method for a smart house. Experimental results show that the method can arrange various appliances and reduce electricity consumption.

Abstract: A method to design a voice control system for smart house is proposed and implemented. Since smart house has the characteristics of low power consumption, low cost and easy operability, ZigBee technology is adopted as a wireless network standard and CC2530 is selected as a sensor node. In the designed system, electric appliances can be controlled by voice.

Abstract: Smart houses are currently gaining in the development of smart systems. One of the development areas are smart systems for handicapped people. This article is devoted to handicapped inhabitants of smart house with Alzheimer's disease associated with dementia. It compares the stability of a healthy person with handicapped inhabitant, under which determine the boundary conditions of stability. It describes the proposal of starting protection system before falling backward, and needed response time of active elements.

Abstract: Nowadays automation systems become more and more heterogeneous with various technologies and standards from different companies and vendors. Each technology has its own concept to model and present process data, leading to the need of a uniform view for the whole systems. OPC UA specification, the next generation of Classic OPC Standards, was introduced as a promising standard that is a good solution to address the issue. Some remarkable advantages of OPC UA have attracted attention: (i) information modeling, (ii) high-performing communication, and (iii) enhanced security mechanism. This paper aims at contributing in the first and big advantage of OPC UA, information modeling concept. Whereas Classic OPC has a poor and simple meta-data model providing tags, OPC UA uses standard information models to lift interoperability to the next level. It allows not only interoperable data exchange but also interoperable model. In our work, information modeling concept based on object-oriented techniques is exemplified by means of a case study for Smart House.

Abstract: We present in this paper several ideas about the usability of the robotic arms and mobile robots as an assistive technology in a smart house where people with disabilities daily live. First, psychological and social aspects of smart home technology are presented and after that the modularity and standardization processes are discussed. Next we propose a smart house plan, equipped with a mobile robot which has a manipulator arm. This robotic system is used to help vulnerable persons, the handicapped men vehicle seat being equipped with a robotic arm which can manipulate objects by a hyper-redundant gripper. For the control of the processes in the smart house, we propose a hierarchical control system and for the mobile robot we use the artificial potential field method. Also, this paper points out the edutainment concept (EDUcation and enterTAINMENT) by robotics. Finally, some applications are presented.