Home automation as a tool to Management household Electricity Consumption

Abstract

This article presents a feasibility study to use home automation as a tool to manage and reduce household electricity cost. It is a result obtained after checking different academic’s research articles about domotics and the perception that there is a gap when it is related with home automation systems that perform the management of energy resources. To many academic’s researches talk about the comfort provided by home automation, but a few about managing and optimizing the use of energy resources. At the end, some points and suggestions for future research are raised to complement this article.