Patent ID: 11971185
Assignee: ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI—RESEARCH COMMITTEE E.L.K.E.
Field: Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC F  G  H  Y | IPC F  G  H

Claim 4:
5. The method of claim 2, wherein an objective for high comfort of the residents is determined by that home appliances should complete their work as soon as possible and specifically, the residents' comfort is considered in the method by defining the delay time rate (DTR) for each i programmable appliance (PA) that is given by, DTR
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        ), and takes values between 0 and 1, where the value 0 means high residents' comfort with respect to the priority in satisfying their preferences, while the 1 means the lower acceptable comfort level and thus, the lower acceptable priority in satisfying the residents' preferences.