Antonio Moreno-Munoz & Neomar Giacomini 
Energy Smart Appliances 
Applications, Methodologies, and Challenges

Energy Smart Appliances

Enables designers and manufacturers to manage real-world energy performance and expectations by covering a range of potential scenarios and challenges

Energy Smart Appliances provides utilities and appliance manufacturers, and designers with new approaches to better understand real-world performance, assess actual energy benefits, and tailor each technology to the needs of their customers.

With contributions from a fully international group of experts, including heads of prestigious research organizations and leading universities, and innovation managers of the main appliance manufacturers, Energy Smart Appliances includes discussion on:

* Enabling technologies for energy smart appliances, covering Io T devices and technology and active energy efficiency measures in residential environments

* Smart home and appliances, answering questions like ‘Where are we heading in terms of the overall smart homes’ future?’ and ‘What’s the energy impact from smart home devices?’

* Demand-side management and demand response, covering overall system/ appliances readiness and ideal energy management scenario to drive demand response

* Energy smart appliances’ best practices and success stories, including refrigerators, washers, dryers, and more

With practical coverage of a wide range of potential scenarios and existing and future challenges, Energy Smart Appliances is an essential learning resource for electrical engineering professionals, equipment manufacturers, and designers, along with postgraduate electrical engineering students and researchers in related fields and programs of study.

About the author

Antonio Moreno-Munoz is a Professor at the Department of Electronics and Computer Engineering, Universidad de Córdoba, Spain, where he is the Chair of the Industrial Electronics and Instrumentation R&D Group. He received his Ph.D. and M.Sc. degrees from UNED, Spain in 1998 and 1992, respectively.

Neomar Giacomini is a Senior Manager for Electronics Hardware development at Whirlpool Corporation. He is an accomplished inventor, developer, and technology aficionado who has worked in Electronics for more than 20 years developing hardware, firmware, and sensors.