[雙語翻譯]智能家居外文翻譯--智能家居活動--文獻綜述（英文）

1、Full Terms however, customers may not be aware of how much energya watt represents. Clarifying this concept for the customerrequires that the cost be provided in equivalent dollars, buteven with the $/KWh value posted on

2、 the electricity provider’swebsite, not all customers regularly track their actual consump-tion. One solution could be to send their hourly consumptiondirectly to their cell phones, but a better solution was pre-sented i

3、n [9]: a stationary monitoring device connected to anddisplaying information about all equipment along with thecurrent electricity price. The authors do not believe that eventhis suggestion will result in an energy-effic

4、ient smart homein light of the dual requirements for complicated technologyand user-interface transparency. For example, as considered in[5], energy efficiency is related to issues beyond consumptionthrough smart devices

5、, such as space heating, which is depen-dent on the area of the rooms and the home, and wastes energybecause of increased heat in areas close to the thermostat; itslocation on the lower floor of a house requires higher s

6、ettingsto heat the remainder of the house and lower ones to cool it.Most of the energy delivered is thus not needed by the resident.Another factor that could contribute to the beliefs expressed in[9] is lack of customer

7、awareness of what constitutes a smarthome and how to communicate with it, which entails priorstudy of smart home design and the optimal placement of alldevices. These steps can be included in a long-term plan, butaddress

8、ing the current situation includes determining how toconvert existing houses and how to define a smart appliance.Many studies have examined these issues. The study in [1]described a smart home intelligent oven that would

9、 be definedby most manufactures as cooking faster; however, a differentcharacterization was offered and a smart oven was defined as adevice that cooks healthier food based on a selected recipe pro-videdearlierbyafamilyme

10、mber.Itcanalsocommunicatewithother appliances, such as a cell phone, fire alarm, and smartfridge, from which it can determine the availability of ingre-dients. The definition of a smart home as set by Intertek waspresent

11、ed in [4] from work on the DTI Smart Home Project: a“dwelling incorporating a communications network that con-nects key electrical appliances and services, and allows themto be remotely controlled, monitored, or accessed

12、” (p.569).Customers’ knowledge of and experience with energy man-agement is a major factor in electricity conservation. Casestudies should be used as a means of determining the optimalsystem for energy and cost managemen

13、t because lack of tech-nical information about monitoring and control systems affectsprogress toward conservation. Customers must be involved inDSM programs.In [10], DSM was defined as the implementation of poli-cies and

14、 measures so that energy consumption is controlled,regulated, and reduced. Standards are to be clearly defined toenhance customers’ decisions toward the purchase of homeappliances.In 2001, household’s utility payments av

15、eraged $1400 [5,11]. As a result, energy conservation is targeted and shouldprovide an economic benefit. Customer investment in monitor-ing and controlling equipment cannot be an effective solutionwithout a financial ret

16、urn. To counteract the prohibitive costof smart home equipment, the regulatory market should limitthe current prices of smart home devices [5].A key smart home element is the EMS, the major activitiesofwhicharethefocusof

17、thisarticle,assummarizedinFigure1.EMSs have been associated with a variety of research areas thatare reviewed in this work and are listed in Figure 2. Because ofthe important role of the EMS in energy conservation, Secti