A Smart Approach on Collecting Working Condition Data from Home Appliances under the Field Test

Abstract

This paper presents management of the data that are taken from the home appliances which are in the field test process. Field test process means collecting the data from the device by sensors, the measurement from environment, then evaluation of this information. This information depends on climate, altitude, user profile etc. Major application area of this study is home appliances sets and their domestic field test process. Also, this smart approach can be applied to any system including any electrical equipment in smart grid. Only 2 different requirements should be covered. (i) Device Under Test (DUT) should work with the specialized test box to send working condition data and environmental measurements. (ii) GSM network should be alive in field test location. This study shows a new smart approach which relies on sending the field test data and environmental conditions over the GSM.

Existing System

Information Management System.

Proposed System

This paper shows a smart approach for field test process including easy to remote control and tracking for the devices, energy monitoring at high safety level. By this approach, it is possible to solve remotely the bugs which occurred depending on the environmental conditions and usage profiles. During field test process, if a critical condition occurs (for instance, the temperature of device surface is increasing) the device electricity can be cut off. This means, some alarm condition definitions related to safety issues can be set separately. Our paper is related to management of the data that are taken from the home appliances under the field test process. With this system, the working conditions of white goods such as water temperature, door open/close count, motor RPM, power parameters of the system etc., and environmental conditions including vibration level of tested device, ambient temperature, external surface temperature of the product, humidity etc. can be sent via GSM network to the cloud server instantly. The measured parameters can be monitored for analyzing at any time.

Architecture

System Block Diagram