CNET

Want to Save Money on Your Electric Bill? Unplug These Appliances When You Aren't Using Them

Certain appliances will pull power as long as they're plugged in, running up your electric bill in the process.

Google Home finally has powerful automations, but I’m still not using them

Google Home's new automation editor adds a lot of powerful triggers and conditions, but it's still far behind what I require ...
IEEE

Smart Home Automation with IoT-driven IR Blasters: Enhancing Control of Legacy Appliances with Predictive Usage Pattern using Machine Learning

Abstract: This research study demonstrates an advanced smart home automation system with IoT based IR blasters to control conventional appliances to improve their usage models. Data were collected ...

'Smart' appliances have more complaints of service, reliability, study says.

A JD Power study surveyed consumers who had purchased "smart" appliances in the last three years to gauge their service and reliability.
IEEE

Automated Text Extraction and Classification from Images using Multi-Layer Perceptron(MLP)

Abstract: This research paper presents a comprehensive approach for extracting and classifying text from images using computer vision and deep learning techniques. We demonstrate a step-by-step ...