The main innovation in managing the energy of household appliances is the bridge between home communication and power distribution networks with the aim to control the power distribution through communication services. Network operators may use the interfaces of the residential gateway to implement services for mobile and fixed terminals featuring remote energy monitoring and control of the home environment. Power distribution network operators have particular interest to monitor the energy consumed by large blocks of users on macroscopic level. Accessing households through such a system is an efficient and cost effective way of accomplishing such task.
Residential users may control their environment through the service interface of the gateway that is able to get connected with any type of home terminal, like e.g. wireless PDA, embedded devices, et.. Moreover, the system is able to collect additional information from the environment through a sensor network and create user profiles in order to perform a partially automatic configuration of the energy management policies. Home terminals distribute commands to the appropriate appliance via the Energy Management Device (EMD), affecting its energy consumption attributes.
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