Mobile commerce (m-commerce) is an increasingly important component of the consumer and business marketplace which, according to ABI Research, is expected to grow to $119 billion in 2015. With the large number of users and the prevalence of smart phones, m-commerce presents an opportunity for businesses to expand their market (and the potential threat to lose market share if they do not partici...

The smart grid initiative has encouraged utility companies worldwide to rollout new and smarter versions of energy meters. Before an extensive rollout, which is both labor-intensive and incurs high capital costs, consumers need to be incentivized to reap the long-term benefits of smart grid. Off-the-shelf energy monitors can provide consumers with an insight of such potential benefits. Since en...

Electricity grids are evolving to “smart grids”. Smart grids employ communication of supply and demand between participants of the grid to achieve better efficiency, availability, resilience, etc. than traditional grids. Consumer households are connected to the smart grid using smart metering and demand response. Smart metering communicates the household’s electricity consumption at high resolu...

The next-generation energy network, the so-called smart grid (SG), promises a tremendous increase in efficiency, safety and flexibility of managing the electricity grid as compared to the legacy energy network. This is needed today more than ever as the global energy consumption is growing at an unprecedented rate, and renewable energy sources have to be seamlessly integrated into the grid to a...

Smart meters have become a matter of concern for many populations, although the technology is as always politically neutral. The focus on electricity rather than all metered services, water, gas and electricity is one aspect of this public concern. The heavy emphasis on Smart Grids, overall energy supply stability [1] and the extension of control into the home by power generators, allied to poo...

Traditional television (TV) has evolved into smart TV in terms of both hardware and software. However, compared with smart phones and tablet PCs, which are huge successes in the market, smart TV has grown more slowly than the market expected and has not really changed the TV market. In this study, we investigate reasons for the failure of smart TV from consumer perspectives. We use conjoint ana...

This paper focuses on computational models development and its applications on demand response, within smart grid scope. A prosumer model is presented and the corresponding economic dispatch problem solution is analyzed. The prosumer solar radiation production and energy consumption are forecasted by artificial neural networks. The existing demand response models are studied and a computational...

Smart home technologies offer exciting opportunities to promote more efficient uses of energy. For instance, programmable thermostats, centralized lighting controls, and rooftop solar panels all have potential for energy conservation and efficiency. However, these technologies alone will not guarantee energy savings. Whereas previous research on smart homes has focused on the technologies thems...