An appliance management method is designed to make power distribution equipment, provided on a power supply channel, control and/or monitor an appliance to be electrically connected to the power distribution equipment. The appliance management method includes an authentication step and a management step. The authentication step includes allowing a high-order system to perform authentication on the power distribution equipment by making the power distribution equipment access the high-order system via a public network after the power distribution equipment has been energized. The management step includes making the power distribution equipment that has been authenticated in the authentication step control and/or monitor the appliance.

Disclosed herein is a washing machine and a control method thereof, and more particularly, to a technology capable of controlling washing modes in various manners by manipulating a control panel of the washing machine. The washing machine includes a display configured to display a washing mode, an inputter configured to receive a washing mode select command, a storage configured to store a selected washing mode, and a controller configured to allow a washing mode, which has the largest number of times selected during a predetermined number of times of washings, to be displayed on a first screen of the display, and in response to the number of the washing mode having the largest number of selection times being plural, configured to allow a washing mode, which is the last selected among the plurality of washing modes, to be displayed on the first screen of the display.

An appliance, as provided herein, can include a direct current load and a current sensing circuit that can be coupled to the direct current load. The current sensing circuit can be configured to collect electrical data corresponding to the direct current load. The appliance can include one or more processors that can be coupled to the current sensing circuit. The one or more processors can be configured to identify at least one attribute of the direct current load based, at least in part, on the electrical data and activate at least one operation of the direct current load or the appliance based, at least in part, on identification of the at least one attribute of the direct current load.

Provided are an electronic device for providing operation state information of a household electrical device without network function and a method of operating the electronic device. Provided is an electronic device receiving a first sound signal output from a household electrical device through a microphone, detecting the first sound signal as a wake-up signal, identifying first operation state information corresponding to the first sound signal from memory, and outputting a notification message representing the first operation state information.

A management system comprises an operation terminal configured to perform a remote operation of an equipment; and a control device configured to receive an access request from the operation terminal and transmit a request command to the equipment in response to the reception of the access request. The operation terminal comprises a user interface configured to notify a user of information specifying an expiration timing of a response waiting timer that defines a transmission interval or a reception interval of the request command.

Provided is an electronic device. The electronic device includes a motor, a memory configured to store at least one of first frequency information associated with a sound that is generated when the motor is driven or second frequency information associated with a surrounding environment of the electronic device, and a processor configured to control the motor to be driven by avoiding a driving speed corresponding to the frequency information stored in the memory.

The present technology relates to an information processing device, an information processing method, and a program that enable a more appropriate output target device to be specified. An information processing device including a control unit that specifies an output target electric device that outputs information to a user based on a sensor level corresponding to a detection resolution of a sensor included in the electric device is provided. Thus, a more appropriate output target device can be specified. The present technology can be applied to, for example, a device control system provided with a plurality of electric devices having sensors.

A method of operating multiple home appliances within a smart home set up, including monitoring physical interactions with at least one appliance and measuring an amount of time since the interaction. The smart home network can activate a vacation mode including altering one or more operating modes of the appliance or alert a user via a mobile device to initiate a vacation mode.

A method of operating multiple home appliances within a smart home set up, including monitoring physical interactions with at least one appliance and measuring an amount of time since the interaction. The smart home network can activate a vacation mode including altering one or more operating modes of the appliance or alert a user via a mobile device to initiate a vacation mode.

Provided is a household appliance including a user interface with a visible indicator that conveys primary operational information indicative of an operational aspect of the household appliance to a user during normal operation of the household appliance, and a controller. The controller receives a signal indicative of diagnostics data of the household appliance and causes the visible indicator to transmit a communication signal to an external device that interprets the communication signal and communicates the diagnostics data to the user. The visible indicator provides a two-way communication between the household appliance and the external device. A method for diagnosing a household appliance is also provided.