The Smart Appliance REFerence ontology (SAREF) is a shared model of consensus developed in close interaction with the industry to enable semantic interoperability for smart appliances. Smart appliances are intelligent and networked devices that accomplish some household functions, such as cleaning or cooking. This paper focuses on specific aspects of SAREF’s development cycle, such as the desig...

Many western countries are pursuing innovation-led ‘smart’ growth so to rebalance away from consumer debt driven growth and ‘financialization’. This paper argues that innovation-led growth is a major battle that requires public policy to fundamentally change from one that views the goal of government as simply fixing markets to one that views it in terms of actively creating and shaping markets...

The U.S takes a major role in the area of Smart Appliance Home Control Network technology for decades. The most popular solutions for this technology at this time include wired and wireless. Today, the benefit of remove control system in the house has been enjoyed. As the fast growth of wireless technology, a convergence of sensor devices and home appliances, wireless system is now a movement t...

at present, the solutions to prevent bedsore include using various techniques for movement and displacement of patients, which is not  possible for some patients or dangerous for some of them while it also poses problems for health care providers. on the other hand, development of information technology in the health care system including application of wireless sensor networks (wsns) has led t...

T HE articles contributed to this Special Section on Smart Sensors were inspired by the papers presented at the 2005 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS). The growing field of " smart sensors " caught our attention and prompted discussion on a Special IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS—I: REGULAR PAPERS issue dedicated to this important topic. Recent research has ...

With the rapid growth of information technologies, mobile devices have been utilized in a variety of services such as e‐commerce. When a remote server provides such e‐commerce services to a user, it must verify the legitimacy of the user over an insecure communication channel. Therefore, remote user authentication has been widely deployed to verify the legitimacy of re...

With the ICT technology making great progress in the smart home environment, the ubiquitous environment is rapidly emerging all over the world, but problems are also increasing proportionally to the rapid growth of the smart home market such as multiplatform heterogeneity and new security threats. In addition, the smart home sensors have so low computing resources that they cannot process compl...

Rising demand, climate change, growing fuel costs, outdated power system infrastructures, and new power generation technologies have made renewable distribution generators very attractive in recent years. Because of the increasing penetration level of renewable energy sources in addition to the growth of new electrical demand sectors, such as electrical vehicles, the power system may face serio...

Development of computing environments and mobile devices lead to rapid growth of smart device, mobile OS and application market. Especially, the mobile platform sector with major runners of Apple and Google, compose the core technology for mobile applications. iOS and Android represent mobile platforms each supporting individual execution environment, development tools and development methodolo...

The large-scale deployment of the Smart Grid paradigm will support the evolution of conventional electrical power systems toward active, flexible and self-healing web energy networks composed of distributed and cooperative energy resources. In a Smart Grid platform, the optimal coordination of distributed voltage controllers is one of the mainissues to address. In this field, the application of...