Achievement of Home Automation Using Conventional Appliances

Today, the techniques for remotely monitoring and controlling conventional appliances through networks have proposed. Conventional appliances are the appliances without telecommunication capabilities. However, these existing techniques can not adequately monitor and control conventional appliances. We developed and tested the devices called a Home Appliance Translator (HAT) and a HAT-Control Point (HAT-CP) these allow more advanced remote monitoring and remote control of conventional appliances. The HATs and HAT-CP infer the conventional appliance states by using the electricity features that conventional appliances consumed and the received IR signals information in combination. So, these devices provide more reliable state presumption than existing methods. The HATs and HAT-CP communicate through power lines and construct Simple Control Protocol (SCP) network automatically. SCP has high-interoperability with Universal Plug & Play (UPnP). The HATs and HAT-CP allow users to construct a home network easily, cheaply, and without the need for information appliances, and users achieve the advanced home automation for conventional appliances.