Ubiquitous Monitoring of Electrical Household Appliances？ 英文参考文献.docVIP

Sensors 2012, 12, 15159-15191; doi:10.3390/s121115159 OPEN ACCESS sensors ISSN 1424-8220 /journal/sensors Article Ubiquitous Monitoring of Electrical Household Appliances Jaime Lloret 1,*, Elsa Macías 2, Alvaro Suárez 2 and Raquel Lacuesta 3 1 Instituto de Investigación para la Gestión Integrada de Zonas Costeras (IGIC), Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Camino Vera s/n, 46022, Valencia, Spain 2 Grupo de Arquitectura y Concurrencia (GAC), Departamento de Ingeniería Telemática-Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Campus Universitario de Tafira, Edificios de Telecomunicación, 35017, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Gran Canaria), Spain; E-Mails: emacias@dit.ulpgc.es (E.M.); asuarez@dit.ulpgc.es (A.S.) 3 Departamento de Informática e Ingeniería de Sistemas, Universidad de Zaragoza, Ciudad Escolar s/n 44003 Teruel, Spain; E-Mail: lacuesta@unizar.es * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; E-Mail: jlloret@dcom.upv.es; Tel.: +34-609-549-043; Fax: +34-962-849-313. Received: 4 September 2012; in revised form: 2 November 2012 / Accepted: 6 November 2012 / Published: 7 November 2012 Abstract: The number of appliances at home is increasing continuously, mainly because they make our lives easier. Currently, technology is integrated in all objects of our daily life. TCP/IP let us monitor our home in real time and check ubiquitously if something is happening at home. Bearing in mind this idea, we have developed a low-cost system, which can be used in any type of electrical household appliance that takes information from the appliance and posts the information to the Twitter Social network. Several sensors placed in the household appliances gather the sensed data and send them wired or wirelessly, depending on the case, using small and cheap devices to a gateway located in the home. This gateway takes decisions, based on the received data, and sends notifications to Twitter. We have developed a so