Analysis of home appliance usage preference for energy saving: Preliminary results

Daily energy saving activities in home are important for sustainability. They require a great deal of labor and the motivation for such activities is difficult to last long. In order to save energy effectively and easily, we aim to develop the system which can automatically control appliances according to user preference. In this paper, we analyze home appliance usage logs and attempt to extract user preference for appliances. Through preliminary analysis, we found possibilities of estimating user preference for appliances from home appliance usage logs.