Green Intelligent Home Technology

The green, green grass of home?

Resident-Aware Green Home

The amount of energy the world uses doubles every 20 years. Green homes play an important role in reducing the residential energy demand. This paper presents a platform that is intended to learn the behavior of home residents and build a profile about their habits and actions. The proposed resident aware home controller intervenes in the operation of home appliances in order to save energy with...

The Intelligent Home Testbed

Intelligent environments are an interesting development and research application problem for multi-agent systems. The functional and spatial distribution of tasks naturally lends itself to a multi-agent model and the existence of shared resources creates interactions over which the agents must coordinate. In the UMASS Intelligent Home project we have designed and implemented a set of distribute...

Intelligent Home Appliances

In this paper the use of robots as intelligent appliances is discussed. A number of advertised systems are reviewed and their basic characteristics analyzed. Open issues in terms of navigation, user interfaces, robustness, price are discussed as a basis for issues for future research to enable commercial delivery of such systems.

Green plants as intelligent organisms.

Intelligent behaviour, even in humans, is an aspect of complex adaptive behaviour that provides a capacity for problem solving. This article assesses whether plants have a capacity to solve problems and, therefore, could be classified as intelligent organisms. The complex molecular network that is found in every plant cell and underpins plant behaviour is described. The problems that many plant...