• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2001.10a
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• pp.59-64
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• 2001

On July 5, 1997, environmental Protection Administration of Taiwan publicized the recycling regulation of waste home appliances that include four items, namely, television, refrigerator, washing machine, and air conditioner. It is believed that this regulation pioneers the law enforcement of waste home appliances in the world. To comply with tile policy, several contemporary waste disposal plants specialized in waste home appliances were established according to a follow-up technical specification oil the waste treatment facilities and methodology. Therefore, the traditional dismantling facilities were substituted and waste collection routes were altered as well accordingly. This study investigates the collection and recycling costs of waste home appliances in accordance with these newly established routes and facilities, respectively. Cost survey was conducted among collectors and recycling plants of waste home appliances; consequently, tire collection and recycling costs were analyzed, correspondingly. Results show that the recycling costs of waste home appliances were much higher than that of other waste items. Since the market share of recycled materials is lacking, these waste recycling plants of home appliances can only survive under the subsidy of EPA in Taiwan. Due to some arduous problems, the subsidiary system has already caused serious financial unbalance for a foundation under EPA of Taiwan, which associated with waste recycling in Taiwan.

• Proceedings of the Korea Multimedia Society Conference
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• 2004.05a
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• pp.499-502
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• 2004

Recently, as many next-generation appliances are become digital and intelligent, companies have come out home appliances to communicate with each other through home network. Therefore, it requires various kind of communication technology to control home appliances. In this paper, XML messages which can control home appliances such as boilers, TV etc. are proposed and defined. The XML messages sending from a home server to home appliances should be fully defined all needed information to activate and deactivate home appliances.

• International Journal of Safety
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.15-20
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• 2008

The primary goal of this study is to analyze fire hazards of electric home appliances such as electric iron and electric heater using fault tree analysis(FTA). A fault tree(FT) is constructed and used to analyze fire hazards in electric home appliances. The fault tree is built from events that may occur in electric home appliances. The failure rate of basic events are derived from the value of experimental results and reference. And an algorithm analyzing fire in electric home appliances is suggested. We show how fault tree analysis, carried out by means of failure rate, is able to diagnose fire hazards of electric home appliances in a precise manner. We present numerical results such as fire probability of electric home appliances, importance measure, fire cause, etc. It can be helpful in preventing the fire hazards in electric home appliances.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2000.07c
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• pp.2204-2206
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• 2000

In this paper, the magnetic fields measured experimentally from the electric home appliances were evaluated and the data were discussed on the bases of the international institutes recommendations. It is difficult to insulate magnetic flux completely from electric home appliances and impossible to simulate theoretically because of the different directions and magnitudes of magnetic fields according to the internal current of electric home appliances. The experimental measurements of magnetic flux density were carried out according to the increment of distance in the vicinity of electric home appliances. The magnetic flux density produced by the electric home appliances was drastically dropped with the increment of distance. The measured and analysed results of electric home appliances of 15 including computer monitor, TV, etc. were presented.

• Journal of Families and Better Life
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• v.27 no.3
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• pp.213-224
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• 2009

This research aims to analyze and compare the objective and subjective evaluation criteria for home appliances. In addition, this research examined the correlation between those evaluation criteria. Furthermore, consumers are divided by the level of the differences between those criteria; consumer groups whose subjective evaluation level for the quality of home appliances is greater than objective evaluation level, consumer groups whose subjective evaluation level is almost the same, and consumer groups whose subjective evaluation level for the quality of home appliances is lower than objective evaluation level, and this study investigated the differences those three groups by the socio-demographic characteristics and consumers' behavior in the stage of purchase. Results of this research could be summarized as follows. First of all, there were statistically significant between the level of the objective and subjective evaluation in the quality of home appliances. Second, when consumers purchased the expensive home appliance, imported-brand home appliance, home appliances in department store, the level of subjective evaluation level for the quality of home appliances is higher than objective evaluation level. Third, the level of satisfaction for the price, quality, AS, overall satisfaction, and the level of willingness to repurchase were higher in consumer groups whose subjective evaluation level was higher than objective evaluation level.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.18 no.4
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• pp.389-395
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• 2020

This study is about finding effects of home appliances to home furnishing. Recently, home appliances go beyond smart by technology development to show design integrated with furniture. Accordingly, this study is First, from the perspective of home furnishing, I examined the meaning of living space for millennial. Second, I investigated home appliances that recently released for millennial, and analyzed appliances trends, focused on product concepts and styling keyword. Third, conducted in-depth interview focusing on four parts : meaning of space, experience of home- furnishing, appliance and interior, feeling of current appliances. Research has shown that design considered space relevance can make home appliances the main of interior. Future studies will need to validate quantified statistical data. Through this study, I hope that will help to set the role and design direction of home appliances in the future.

• Journal of environmental and Sanitary engineering
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.1-10
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• 1999

This study was carried out to improve management of wasted home appliances and computers. The generation of wasted home appliances and computers in korea was estimated. Disassembling wasted home appliances and computers according to disassembly procedure, investigate fittings weight and disassembly time. To evaluate hazardous contaminants from televisions and computers, measure heavy metals by leaching test.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2001.10a
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• pp.98.2-98
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• 2001

It is necessary to have enough transmission capacity for advanced internet techniques and various digital home appliances networking. Home appliances interface IEEE1394 technique has much wealthy transmission skill. IEEE1394 is using home appliances through various information form image and voice change data real time print out. In this paper, AVC CTS technology and IEEE1394 technology are introduced. Digital Video Camera includes compression format using DV. System composition control is consisted of protocols like IEC-61883 and AV/C command set standard.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.449-456
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• 2019

SMART home is one of the most popular applications of Internet-of-Things (IoT) technologies, which is expanding in terms of range of applications. SMART home technology provides convenience at home by connecting household appliances to a single network, control, and management. However, many general home appliances do not support the network functions yet; hence, enjoying such convenient technology could be difficult, and it could be expensive in the beginning to build the framework. In addition, even though products with SMART home technologies are purchased, the control systems could differ from device to device. Thus, in this paper, we propose a SMART home framework, called an S-mote that can operate all the IoT functions in a single application by adding an infrared or radio frequency module to general home appliances. The proposed framework is analyzed using four types of performance tests by five evaluators. The results of the experiment show that the SMART home environment was implemented successfully and that it functions appropriately, without any operational issues, with various home appliances, including the latest IoT devices, and even those equipped with an infrared or radio frequency module.

• The Journal of Society for e-Business Studies
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• v.12 no.4
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• pp.71-84
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• 2007

The architecture for RFID-based home network and an intelligent agent for efficiently managing home network are proposed in this paper. The agent consists of six modules-Agent Manager, Data Collector, Execution Controller, Data Storage, Data Queue and User Interface. Agent Manager manages the tasks of modules, and Data Collector collects the data from home appliances through the RFID readersm Execution Controller determines the operations home appliances according to the conditions of the home environment and transfers the operations to the appliances through the RFID readers. Moreover, Data Storage keeps the data which is necessary for the operations of the agent, and Data Queue temporarily stores the data which is collected from home appliances. Lastly, User Interface provides the graphical user interface in which an individual can directly control and monitor the home network. The proposed intelligent agent autonomously learns the circumstances of a home network by analyzing the data about the state of home appliances, and controls home appliances according to the preference of the user. Therefore, the user can live in the best-suited home environment without direct appliance control if he/she performs home networking through the agent.