existed electricity grids deliver produced power to the consumer passing through transmission and distribution grids. according to high losses of these grids in transmission level and inexistence of bilateral interaction for simultaneous information exchange, a concept of smart grids were made by capabilities such as consciously participation of consumers in the smart electricity grids, an amou...

The idea of changing our energy system from a hierarchical design into a set of nearly independent microgrids becomes feasible with the availability of small renewable energy generators. The smart microgrid concept comes with several challenges in research and engineering targeting load balancing, pricing, consumer integration and home automation. In this paper we first provide an overview on t...

Software agents, semi-intelligent autonomous tools, will play an increasing role in electronic commerce applications. In this paper we give an overview of the work conducted at MIT’s Media Laboratory on different types of agents for electronic commerce: from consumer to consumer “smart” classified ads systems, to merchant agents that provide integrative negotiation capabilities; from agents tha...

The rapid popularity of mobile devices especially smart phones has changed human life style greatly. In this paper, we examine the consumer behaviors on several e-commerce platforms based on a large-scale dataset of mobile internet access records for about 3.5 months from a major telecom operator in China, which covers 126,388 users from Shanghai. We provide a preliminary study on users’ daily ...

In recent years new research studies have appeared that tackle the issue of smartphone adoption and acceptance, little is known about the consumer coproduction behaviour of smart phones. Many consumers dedicate to provide feedback to companies, help other consumers in solving problems, advocate and recommend of the product to other consumers; consequently, they are regarded as value co-producer...

Micromechanical devices like accelerometers or rotation sensors form an increasing segment beneath the devices supplying the consumer market. A hybrid integration approach to build smart sensor clusters for the precise detection of movements in all spatial dimensions requires a large toolbox of interconnect technologies, each with its own constraints regarding the total process integration. Spe...

Œe widespread global deployment of smart meters o‚ers a unique opportunity for utilities to understand the energy use lifestyles and needs of their consumers. It also presents a new challenge: mining these massive datasets and translating €ne-grained consumption data into meaningful insights for purposes of eciency and interpretability. In this paper, we focus on the segmentation of consumer l...

Noncooperative Games for Autonomous Consumer Load Balancing Over Smart Grid. (August 2010) Tarun Agarwal, B.Tech., Indian Institute of Technology Madras Chair of Advisory Committee: Dr. Shuguang (Robert) Cui Traditionally, most consumers of electricity pay for their consumption according to a fixed-rate. The few existing implementations of real time pricing have been restricted to large industr...

IoT is considered a next generation digital revolution to connect things with an embedded system to the Internet. The IoT technology is reshaping how people access information; IoT products and services will be a significant part of consumer infrastructure of smart retailing, smart homes, and smart cities, which will change consumers’ lives and their behaviors (Dutton, 2014; Brody and Pureswara...