• Journal of the Korean Society of Clothing and Textiles
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• v.47 no.1
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• pp.85-109
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• 2023

Laundry has traditionally been regarded as one of the most demanding household chores, but the introduction of smart washing machines is changing this perception. Although smart washing machines have been on the market for several years and consumers' perceptions of washing machines have changed, little is known about consumers' perceptions of smart washing machines. The purpose of this study is to determine what users expect from smart washing machines. We conducted two focus group interviews with sixteen participants who had used smart home appliances to acquire qualitative data. Stimuli created by the interviewees were applied in the focus group interviews to collect more insightful data. We analyzed the data using the three-step method and QSR NVivo. Analysis revealed ten categories of predictive expectations, including seven utilitarian attributes (i.e., smart functionality, smart user interface, reliability, controllability, interactivity, functional value, and economic value) and three hedonic attributes (i.e., fashionable value, psychological value, and social value). The results of this study have implications for the development of smart washing machines that would satisfy consumers by taking user expectations into account.

• IEMEK Journal of Embedded Systems and Applications
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• v.10 no.4
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• pp.213-219
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• 2015

Real-time energy monitoring systems is a demand-response system which is reported to be effective in saving energy up to 12%. Real-time energy monitoring system is commonly composed of smart-plugs which sense how much electrical power is consumed and IHD(In-Home Display device) which displays power consumption patterns. Even though the monitoring system is effective, users should themselves match which smart plus is connected to which appliance. In order to make the matching work to be automatic, the monitoring system need to have appliance identification algorithm, and some works have made under the name of NILM(Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring). This paper proposed an algorithm which utilizes multiple classifiers to improve accuracy of appliance identification. The algorithm proposes to understand each classifiers performance, that is, when a classifier make a result how much the result is reliable, and utilize it in choosing the final result among result candidates from many classifiers. By using the proposed algorithm this paper make 4.5% of improved accuracy with respect to using single best classifier, and 2.9% of improved accuracy with respect to other method using multiple classifiers, so called CDM(Commitee Decision Mechanism) method.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2002.11c
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• pp.2435-2438
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• 2002

본 논문은 다양한 표준의 제어 미들웨어가 설치된 환경에서 흠내의 정보기기간의 정보 전달 및 제어물 위해서 단일한 서비스를 개발, 실행하기 위한 구조를 설명한다. 기존의 가전제품에 다양한 통신 미디어(예: IEEE1394, IrDA, LAM, PLC, Bluetooth 등)이 추가되어 새로운 부가가치를 지원하는 정보가전제품들이 소개되고 있고 이에 적합한 통신 환경이 개발, 보급되고 있다. 또한, 정보기기간의 제어, 데이터 전송, 서비스 개발을 목적으로 다양한 제어 미들웨어(Jini, HAVi, LonWorks, UpnP 등) 이 제시되고 발전해가고 있다. 이러한 추세에 의하면 향후 수년안에 홈네트워크 서비스 플랫폼의 요구사항이 높아지며 특히, 다중 제어 미들웨어를 지원하는 서비스 플랫폼의 등장이 필요한 시점이다. 본 논문에서 설계, 구현한 홈네트워크 통합미들웨어는 서비스 프로바이더(서비스 제공자 및 운용자)에게 서비스개발, 보급 운용의 단일 환경을 제공한다. 이의 한 예제인 홈네트워크 미들웨어 연동 서비스는 서로 다른 제어 미들웨어를 따르는 정보기기간의 연동 서비스를 다양한 매체를 수용하는 홈서버에서 가능하도록 구축하였다.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.199-204
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• 2017

In this study, we present a home appliance load identification algorithm. The algorithm utilizes complex sensory data in order to improve the existing NIALM using total power usage information. We define the influence graph between the appliance status and the measured sensor data. The device identification prediction result is calculated as the weighted sum of the predicted value of the sensor data processing algorithm and the predicted value based on the total power usage. We evaluate proposed algorithm to compare appliance identification accuracy with the existing NIALM algorithm.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartD
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• v.12D no.2 s.98
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• pp.319-326
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• 2005

Recently, the information appliance devices integrating information technology, appliance technology, and communication technology are appeared in home. And this environment requires that the monitoring technology should include the interaction and the real-time controlling among these devices using home network. In this paper, we implemented the active objects for information appliances by applying the Time-triggered Message-triggered Object(TMO) scheme supporting real-time service. Based on distributed real-time services supporting platform using the TMO Support Middleware(TMOSM), we also constructed the real-time information appliance controlling simulator supporting the remote controlling and monitoring service among active objects. The information appliance devices implemented by the TMO scheme can exchange the housing information by autonomous triggering. And we can conveniently reconfigure the executing environment for information appliances when new devices were inserted. For constructing the simulator on the distributed real-time service supporting platform, we described the functions of the active TMOs for information appliances that execute the temperature management, the illuminance management, and the time management controlling services, and designed the remote interaction among them. Finally, by implementing the simulating environment of information appliance devices on distributed platform, we showed whether the procedures of the real-time controlling and the monitoring service for the active objects of information appliances corresponding to physical devices are processed in given executing conditions correctly.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.21 no.4
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• pp.407-413
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• 2011

This paper presents an electrical power monitoring system for home energy management and an automatic appliance-identification algorithm based on the electricity-usage patterns collected during the monitoring tests. This paper also discusses the results of the field tests of which the proposed system was voluntarily deployed at 13 homes. The proposed monitoring system periodically measures the amount of power consumption of each appliance with a pre-specified time interval and effectively displays the essential information provided by the monitored data which is required users to know in order to save power consumption. Regarding the field tests of the monitoring system, the households responded that the system was useful in saving electricity and especially the electricity-usage patterns per appliances. They also considered that the predicted amount of the monthly power consumption was effective. The proposed appliance-identification algorithm uses 4 patterns: Zero-Crossing Rate(ZC), Variation of On State(VO), Slope of On State(SO) and Duty Cycle(DC), which are applied over the 2 hour interval with 25% of it on state, and it yielded 82.1% of success rate in identifying 5 kinds of appliances: refrigerator, TV, electric rice-cooker, kimchi-refrigerator and washing machine.

• Journal of Computing Science and Engineering
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• v.7 no.3
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• pp.204-210
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• 2013

We present the motivation, design and implementation of a smart home system in Korea. Our system is open, extensible, integrated, intelligent, and usage-centric. We detail the challenges and key design requirements for the smart home system based on our past experiences, and show how convergence system design is a capable methodology for enabling an integrated and multi-faceted home management system that encompasses energy management, home appliance control, environment management, u-health, and living support functionalities under a single unified design. Using energy management as a specific case study, we demonstrate how convergence system design can encapsulate technology heterogeneity and hardware-software disparity without compromising simple yet powerful user interfaces.

• Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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• v.11 no.5
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• pp.11-17
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• 2006

Recently, IT industry by digital technique is improved gradually. Therefore many electronic appliance became the digital, and this is magnified gradually. The development of embedded home automation system combined embedded and internet technique is taking many interest. Specially in the times of the ubiquitous, excellent economically home automation system is preferred even in general family. Therefore, in this paper, we escape from monotonic control of home automation and draw a plan intelligent home automation to be developed.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.24 no.4
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• pp.403-411
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• 2014

In this paper, an algorithm of extracting the features of home appliances and automatically building a database to identify home appliances is designed and presented. For the verification, a software library supporting this algorithm is implemented and added to an power management system server, which was already implemented to support real-time monitoring of home appliances' power consumption status and controlling their power. The implemented system consists of a system server and clients, each of which measures the power consumed by a home appliance plugged in it and transmits the information to the server in real-time over a wireless network. Through experiments, it is verified that it is possible to identify any home appliance connected to a specific client.

• Journal of Distribution Science
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.35-53
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• 2009

Sees the market where home appliance and network equipment, the communication service enterprises are new recently the home network market of the most which has an interest in the home network is being activated the newly-built high-class apartment in the center. The company building leads because not being option of the case last customer of newly-built market and must do a business . marketing. So newly-built market the demand grasp which is individual leads sale activation with difficult and that to creates a benefit there is a limit judges and axis market in the object hereafter demand at even the popular house the function to prepare in being magnified is simple and there is a possibility of saying that a more effort is demanded in supply style video phone market opening up where the price is cheap. Saw with like this reason from, analyzes the concept and a market trend of the video phone, grasps distribution channel forms and A/S handling systems and there is the goal finds the video phone sale revitalization plan which is suitable in all market.