The increased consumption of energy worldwide has boosted the interest of people for energy-efficient solutions at every level of daily life, from goods production and transportation to the use of household and office ...

Since electricity consumption of households in developing countries is dramatically increasing every year, it is now more prudent than ever to utilize technology-based solutions that assist energy end-users to improve ...

Accrediting the fast economic growth and the enhancement of people's live standards, the overall household's energy consumption is becoming more and more substantial. Thus, the need of conserving energy is becoming a ...

The ARM-DSP based ANPR system described is designed for commercial applications where the need for low power, low prices and real time systems is vital. A single FPGA can also be added as a plug-in to the ARM-DSP based ...

The detection of anomalous energy usage could help significantly in signaling energy wastage and identifying faulty appliances, especially if the individual power traces are analyzed. To that end, this paper proposes a ...

Edge computing is attracting an increasing attention presently even though most of the building energy efficiency solutions are still using cloud computing for gathering, pre-processing and analyzing energy data. However, ...

This paper proposes a new appliance identification scheme by introducing a novel approach for extracting highly discriminative characteristic sets that can considerably distinguish between various appliance footprints. In ...

Consciousness about power consumption at the appliance level can assist user in promoting energy efficiency in households. In this paper, a superior non-intrusive appliance recognition method that can provide particular ...

Cerebral aneurysm is a life-threatening disease that may enlarge and bleed into surrounding area. Therefore, diagnosis of aneurysm is highly important as early as possible to help doctors to decide the right treatment. The ...

Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) systems have become one of the most important components in the current Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS). In this paper, a FPGA implementation of a complete ANPR system ...