Patent ID: 11946960
Assignee: ELECTROLUX APPLIANCES AKTIEBOLAG
Field: Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H  Y | IPC G  H

Claim 17:
18. The smart plug according to claim 1, wherein:
said electronic controller is further configured to: determine loads activation profiles of said recognized loads during said operating cycle, compare said determined load activation profiles of said recognized loads with correspondent stored activation profiles of prefixed operating cycles, and determine the operating cycle based on the result of said comparison;
said network system comprises a remote computing system and a home network system; said electronic controller being configured to perform a communication with said remote computing system via said home network system in order to exchange data with the remote computing system; and
said electronic controller is further configured to:
receive from said remote computing system and store in said storage means, load activation profiles associated to the operating cycles which may be performed by the household appliance;
determine load activation profiles based on said electric signatures determined when the household performed the operating cycle; and
determine the operating cycle performed by the household appliance based on said load activation profiles determined when the household appliance performed the operating cycle, and said load activation profiles associated to the operating cycle stored in said storage means.