  Intelligent management of machines, particularly in a residence area, has
been of interest for many years. However, such system design has always been
limited to simple control of machines from a local area or remotely from the
Internet. In this report, for the first time, an intelligent system is
proposed, where not only provides intelligent control ability of machines to
user, but also utilizes big data and optimization techniques to provide
promotional offers to the user to optimize energy consumption of machines.
Since a high traffic communication is involved among the machines and the
optimization-big data core of system, the communication core of the proposed
system is designed based on cloud, where many challenging issues such as
spectrum assignment and resource management are involved. To deal with that,
the communication network in the home area network (HAN) is designed based on
the cognitive radio system, where a new spectrum assignment method based on the
ant colony optimization (ACO) algorithm is proposed to perform spectrum
assignment to the machines in the HAN. Performance evaluation of the proposed
spectrum assignment method shows its performance in fair spectrum assignment
among machines.
