Optimization of the Multimedia Consumers Operation Time

Abstract

This article analyses the consumption of household multimedia equipment. This comes to the aid of parents who want to limit the time their children spend in front of the TV, computer or using game consoles. The novelty of the presented solution consists in limiting the access to the energy sources by identified the multimedia equipment coupled to the power supply and not just to monitor the consumption. Also, this solution allows a timetable programmed by the user that is dependent on the connected time of the multimedia equipment, as it will be explained in the paper. In order to benefit from all its functions, the proposed device must be embedded in the wall socket. Thus it cannot be removed, and the monitored consumption is the correct one.