A location-aware lifestyle improvement system to save energy in smart home

Recently, Internet of Things (IoT) has attracted much attention and smart-grid has become a very important research topic in IoT due to the development of sensors, actuators and wireless network technology. In addition, society focuses on electrical power shortage problem for the earth´s environment issue and the aftermath of the great earthquake in Japan. To save energy, there is a concept of smart-home in IoT. Smart-home is a very useful application in IoT to control electronic devices and electric appliances uniformly in residence. Even there are some approaches to save energy in smart homes, there is a lack of effective solutions for saving energy by changing users´ habit. Therefore we propose a system for improving the lifestyle habit to save the energy in this paper. This system lets users who live in the smart-home be aware of their life style, wasted electricity, and then improves their lifestyle. The system first detects various information, e.g., position of the user, and energy-usage of home electrical appliances. And then, the system recognizes situation of wasting energy and provide services to improve the lifestyle of users.