Wireless sensor networks for Home Appliance Energy Management based on ZigBee technology

Wireless Sensor Networks for Home Appliance Energy Management based on ZigBee technology is introduced in this paper. The aim of this research is to develop a real-time, low-cost, low power consumption and better reliable system for monitoring home appliance. Based on system analysis, hardware architecture design and underlying software development are presented. Experiment testing result demonstrates that this system is suitable for home appliance energy management and it makes electric scheduling and management more convenient and flexible. Moreover, it can be extended to a whole building or community.