Appliance performance monitoring and warranty alert system

摘要

The manufactures include a huge price of the warranties in the original cost of the appliance. However, most of th etimes, the consumers do not take a full advantage of it because either they do not comprehend the increased complexity of products technical specifications. or they do not have adequate time to track the appliance performance. Thus they do not claim warranty even if the warranty is live or about to expire, consequently they do not get the relief they deserve. To address the issue we propose a domestic appliance health monitoring system. The proposed system consists of sensors that continuously monitor the appliance performance, and send the performance data to a personal computer where the captured data is compared with the appliance technical specification stored/downloaded from the manufacturer's website. Alarms or alerts are generated to inform them about the deteriorated performance and to take advantage of the warranty.