7 Conclusion

7 Conclusion

Wireless communicating objects will become more and more numerous at home and, from now on, it is necessary to reduce, or even make transparent energy management.

In this contribution we have dealt with the reduction of power consumption, the increase of autonomy, optimal choice of the source and charger, autonomy and state of health prediction, definition of minimal information to be transmitted to an object energy management assistant.

New tracks are also to be explored like hybrid information/energy wiring and robot ability to automatically feed energy to smaller fixed objects (Figure 24.6) [3 MARQUET, 2001] [4 SEMPE, 2001].

Figure 24.6: Service robots to assist human beings