A New Method for Notifying the Status of Home Appliances by Monitoring their Control Panel

Home appliances have become an integral part of our lives. We can determine the status of a home appliance by monitoring a control panel. However, such control panels are not always easy to use for the elderly and people with disabilities. In our previous study, we have proposed a method for monitoring LED indicators of network devices. This paper applies our monitoring method using their control panels to monitor home appliances. We developed a monitor rack for mounting the monitoring devices. Using the developed monitoring devices, an image of the LED indicators of a washing machine control panel was captured through an experiment. The results described in this paper are part of an ongoing study.