Paper Info
Title
Identifying outlets at which electrical appliances are used by electrical wire sensing to gain positional information about appliance use
Abstract
This paper presents a new method for estimating which outlet an electrical appliance is plugged into by using the electrical wiring installed in the building. By making use of the voltage drop caused by the wire, we can estimate the distance between the sensor and an electrical appliance plugged into an outlet on an electrical circuit. If we have a floor plan of an environment of interest showing a wiring diagram and where a sensor is attached, we can determine which outlet an electrical appliance is plugged into from the distance between the sensor and the appliance. The estimated outlet position of an appliance is very useful for understanding real-world events and developing real-world applications, e.g., providing user location and appliance location aware services, daily activity recognition, and estimating a user's indoor location through electrical appliance use under specific conditions.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1145/2632048.2636069
UbiComp
Keywords
DocType
Citations 
electrical appliance,electrical wire,outlet,systems and software
Conference
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
20
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Quan Kong1114.04
Takuya Maekawa232649.93