Abstract: A network household electric control system has a household electric appliance controlling ASP server installed as an external server (300) on the Internet. When household electric appliances (150) are to be controlled from an operation terminal (130) in the house of a customer through a home server (120), the GUI is transparently transmitted from an external server to the operation terminal and is displayed with the browser so that the household electric appliances are monitored and controlled through that GUI.

Abstract: A home-use electrical device information communication system comprises a home-use electrical device (150) that can be connected wirelessly or by wire to a home network (30) to send a notification into the home network (30) at the occurrence of a change in the status; a home server (120) that resides within the home-use electrical device and home network and receives information automatically notified from the home-use electrical device to transmit it to the exterior via the Internet; and an information server (300) that is connected to the Internet and receives the notification from the home server. The home server (120) holds a single application for receiving notifications from the home-use electrical device.

Abstract: A home appliance control device includes a terminal, a communication adapter, and a switch control unit. The switch control unit includes an allocating unit configured to recognize the number of the terminals, allocate specific identification numbers in accordance with a home appliance control protocol and store a correspondence relation between the identification numbers and terminal numbers, a storage unit configured to store a correspondence relation between the states of the terminals and property information in accordance with the home appliance control protocol, and carries out conversion between the identification numbers and the terminal numbers and conversion between the property information and state values of the terminal upon reception of a control command on the basis of the home appliance control protocol from the communication adapter.