HOPE: HOme Power Efficiency System for a Green Network

Abstract—A home network represents an increasingly large portion of a household’s electrical consumption due to the increasing number of digital home devices and the increasing complexity of the underlying communication infrastructure. Limiting a home network’s power consumption is a priority for large institutions as witnessed by evolving regulation, and a priority for individual consumers wishing to reduce their electric bills. In this demonstration, we proposed a solution that aims at reducing power consumption at both the device and network level. At the device level, our system can turn the devices off when they are not in operation and quickly turn them on when they are needed. At the network level, the solution is based on a new convergence layer denoted inter-MAC, which provides a common infrastructure to the different home network paths. In particular, the inter-MAC can be used to choose a greener path. Our solution on both levels is compatible and complementary to home network energy saving

ACEMIND: The smart integrated home network

Digital home business is a large potential market for which ACEMIND European collaborative project intends to provide a set of consistent solutions to enhance the local network management in home and small enterprises. These networks are typically constituted by some tens of devices connected to each other via a set of wired and wireless technologies. The deployment of such networks has been intensive in Europe in the last decade and will continue in the future. However common end-users still suffer from complicated installation, operation or maintenance. Recent progress has been made to integrate heterogeneous connectivity into a single network. A proof of concept has been shown thanks to European collaborative project OMEGA and the hybrid network demonstrator has led to an IEEE standard and available commercial products. The goal of ACEMIND project is to enrich this initial concept with new features and services such as energy efficiency, packets load balancing or anomaly detection. Another target is to integrate future products using new transmission technologies. Then, using a unique userfriendly GUI (Graphical User Interface), it will be possible to monitor and manage the home network with a large range of services such as energy optimization, UHD TV or wellness