Rest Appliance: Retainer Stabilizing Appliance

Current Sensor Based Home Appliance and State of Appliance Recognition

This paper presents a current sensor-based home appliance and its state recognition method for intelligent outlets. Our system has three main functions: remote control, monitoring, and power supply schedule management. This research focuses particular on the monitoring function. To recognize the appliance and the state of the appliance, we extract ten features based on a measured current signal...

Appliance Recognition and Unattended Appliance Detection for Energy Conservation

Providing energy conservation services becomes a hot research topic because more and more people attach importance to environmental protection. This research proposes a framework that consists of four process models: appliance recognition, activity-appliances model, unattended appliances detection, and energy conservation service. Appliance recognition model can recognizes the operating states ...

The two by four appliance: a versatile appliance.

The 2 x 4 appliance comprises bonds on the maxillary incisors, bands on the first permanent maxillary molars and a continuous archwire. The appliance is used in the early mixed dentition for treatment of both anterior crossbites and alignment of ectopic incisors. Four cases using this appliance are presented. This appliance offers many advantages over alternative techniques as it provides compl...

Appliance Data Services: Making Steps Towards an Appliance Computing World

Although digital appliances are designed to be easy to use, their users often cannot even perform simple tasks because the devices lack infrastructural support. The Appliance Data Services project seeks to explore the attributes of an appliance computing world and develop the infrastructure required to support users with digital appliances.

A green oral appliance.