Home-in-Palm — A mobile service for remote control of household energy consumption

Nowadays energy consumption is on the rise which is not sustainable in the long run. Household energy consumption accounts for about 25% of the countries' total energy consumption and it continues to grow. One of the ways to decrease energy consumption is by increasing consumer awareness. People are often careless when it comes to lowering energy consumption, even though it could reflect well on their household budget. The development of various kinds of technologies enabled improved control over energy consumption remotely (i.e., via mobile devices and computers). In this paper, we present Home-in-Palm a mobile service for remote control of household energy consumption which enables remote control of household appliances, automatic appliance status changes based on user's location or particular moment in time, and automatic reduction of household energy consumption. These features bring lower cost and reduced energy consumption.