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Showing 1 to 20 of 36 for “"Household appliances"”.
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Major Household Appliances: A Study in Adaptive Marketing Behavior
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Using Alternative Data Visualization Formats to Impact Residents Energy Estimation of Household Appliances
… and arguing energy consumption data of household appliance pairs. The data visualization chart types explored include the area, bar, and circular column charts. The visual aids displayed in the virtual environment explored include color coding, electricity flow, and the power meter. The …
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An Exploratory Study of Changes in the Market for Selected Major Household Appliances in Three European Economic Community Countries
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A semi-autonomous mobile robot/teleoperator with applications as an aid for severely handicapped people
… structured indoor environment as well as control household appliances. Underlying these functions is a user-generated computer model of the environment which maintains spatial and relational information about household items. The model represents a data base which is accessed by a variety of …
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Three-Phase Generation Using Reactive Networks
<p>Household appliances utilize single-phase motors to perform everyday jobs whether it is to run a fan in an air conditioner or the compressor in a refrigerator. With the movement of the world going “green” and trying to make everything more efficient, it is a logical step to start with the items …
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Microfinance and welfare of households in Ngcobo villages in the Eastern Cape Province
… of microfinance on welfare of rural households in Ngcobo in the Eastern Cape through an administered survey. The study targeted fifty households based on convenience sampling technique and used a number of welfare indicators but selected food consumption patterns; roof, floor and …
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Green Improvements: A Consumer's Guide to Environmentally and Economically Responsible Home Repairs and Improvements for the North Central Texas Region
… for the purchase of specific energy-efficient household appliances- water heaters, air conditioning and heating systems, windows, dishwashers, refrigerators, clothes washers, and dryers. This serves two major purposes: to decrease the environmental impact of those products and to save consumers …
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Design and Analysis of a Novel Multilevel Single Phase Interconnected H-bridge Inverter
… allow the use of residential solar power to run household appliances and electronics by converting DC to AC power just like the AC power from the grid. This study looks at the design and implementation of a novel multilevel inverter topology called a single phase interconnected H bridge inverter. …
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Low-Frequency Series Loaded Resonant Inverter Characterization
… Although higher efficiencies are achieved, some household appliances require AC power; thus, the need for highly efficient DC to AC converters is imperative in establishing DC microgrid systems. Resonant inverter topologies exhibit zero current switching (ZCS); hence, eliminate switching losses …
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Nanoseconds for the masses
… lives. Our phones, our wearables, and even our household appliances now include precision measurement capability that rivals what was once only available in laboratory grade test equipment. Converters with 6 digits of resolution and nanovolt noise floors cost less than a dollar and fit into our …
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Next generation business intelligence software, areas for growth & opportunities for innovation
… on the optimal times to schedule devices and run household appliances. As data volumes continue to grow, systems will need to automate the uncovering of patterns and trends in data if they are to scale. Business Intelligence (BI) software, which has traditionally been used to gain insight from …
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Energy Harvesting from Human Body, Motion and Surroundings
… by electromagnetic fields found in common household appliances. These novel solutions are shown to provide consistent electrical power from wasted energy. Harvester designs are extensively modeled and optimized device architectures are manufactured and tested to quantify the relevant …
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A hierarchical approach to the formal verification of embedded systems using MDGs
… and imaging systems, medical equipment and even household appliances. With the increasing emergence of mixed hardware/software systems, it is important to ensure the correctness of such a system formally, particularly for real-time and safety critical applications. In this thesis, a hierarchical …
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Analysis And Optimal Design Method of LCLC Resonant Tank for Bidirectional DC-DC Resonant Converter And LCLC Resonant Converter's Efficiency Performance in Wireless Low Power Transfer Applications
… for various portable electronics as well as household appliances. </p> <p> However, currently available WPT technology demonstrates several shortcomings and various challenges due to allowed receiver position variation with respect to transmitter position. For consumers, major shortcomings …
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Technology and applications of 2D materials in micro- and macroscale electronics
… smartphones and laptops to larger devices like household appliances and cars. However, the size range of electronic devices is still rather limited from the millimeter to meter scale. Being able to extend the reach of electronics from the size of a red blood cell to a skyscraper would enable new …
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Non intrusive load monitoring & identification for energy management system using computational intelligence approach
… and identification of domestic electrical appliances is proposed especially at the residential level since it is the major energy consumer. The intrusive load monitoring provides accurate results and would allow each individual appliance's energy consumption to be transmitted to a central …
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Baran: a service-oriented cloud-based user monitoring and data analysis framework
… laptops, smart watches, fitness bands, and smart household appliances. The thesis develops a conceptual model and extensible data structure, called the UDI (User Digital Imprint), which accommodates a variety of digital data from digital devices along with information derived from that data. A …
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Study of an innovative non intrusive load monitoring system for energy emancipation of domestic users: hardware and ICT optimized solutions
… (NIALM) is the process of disaggregating a household s total electricity consumption into its contributing appliances. Smart meters are currently being deployed on national scales, providing a platform to collect aggregate household electricity consumption data. Existing approaches to NIALM …
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