The paper describes the design, the implementation of a neural controller used in an automatic daylight control system. The automatic lighting control system (ALCS) attempt to maintain constant the illuminance at the desired level on working plane even if the daylight contribution is variable. Therefore, the daylight will represent the perturbation signal for the ALCS. The mathematical model of...

This paper describes the design and implementation of a XCP (Xeline Control Protocol) network system. XCP is an information oriented protocol which delivers information with high reliability according to the predefined rule. The XCP network system is implemented with partly hardware and partly software based on the power line communication(PLC) environment. A network management tool which inter...

We discuss in this paper the problem of simultaneous tracking, which exploits the synergy between location and movement to provide the information necessary for intelligent home appliance control. Our goal is to carry out accurate movement estimation for multiple people in a home environment. We propose an approach that uses information gathered using only passive infrared sensors commonly foun...

Lighting, and its emergence as a digital and networked medium, represents an ideal platform for conducting research on both sensor and human-derived methods of control. Notably, solid-state lighting makes possible the control of the intensity, spatial, and color attributes of lighting in real-time. This technology provides an excellent opportunity to conduct new experiments designed to study ho...

Currently wireless based control systems lack appropriate development methodologies and tools, indeed the control model and its underlying wireless network are developed separately which often lead to unstable and suboptimal implementations. In this paper we introduce a hybrid-based design methodology that considers Wireless Sensors and Actuators Network (WSAN) performance parameters in order t...

INTRODUCTION Advances in Light Emitting Diode (LED) technology provide a wide range of new opportunities for interaction with light. In this workshop paper, I will focus on the role mobile phones (and devices) have played in this lighting revolution. Mobile phones have been: 1) used as means to remotely control lighting, 2) fitted with LEDs to allow people to directly control lighting, and 3) e...

Smart Home is one of emerging application domains of The Internet of Things. It minimizes user’s intervention in monitoring home settings and controlling home appliances. Mobile terminal has become an important part of Smart Home now. This paper presents an effective approach to solve the potential problems when using mobile terminal in Smart Home. In the smart home system, a kind of simple, ea...

This paper analyses the office demand connected to the use of different dynamic window and lighting control systems with the aim to optimize their usage aspects and characteristics from both visual and energy efficiency viewpoints. The approach is based on an improvement of the non-commercial hourly simulation program IENUS. Results are referred to a typical office located in Mediterranean clim...

This paper proposes an efficient implementation of scalable and flexible street lighting control in urban environments. The purpose is to decrease the overall energy consumption without affecting safety. In a hierarchical three-level control strategy based on qualitative processing, the lower level is represented by wireless sensor-actuator network clusters that control individual street lamps,...