Methods and systems for appliance community service management

A method of networking a plurality of appliances comprising:

• providing an appliance on a network, wherein the appliance is configured to perform a cycle of operation, wherein the appliance includes a microcontroller, a memory, at least one sensor, a user interface and a communicator;
• controlling operation of the appliance with the microcontroller;
• storing on the memory coupled with the microcontroller, computer executable instructions for operating the appliance;
• sensing the operation of the appliance and a level of a consumable product used by the appliance during the operation cycle with at least one sensor, wherein at least one sensor data indicative of the operation of the appliance is stored in the memory;
• displaying on the user interface coupled to the microcontroller, a user interface element to provide information regarding the operation of the appliance;
• communicating through the communicator coupled to the microcontroller, the communicator being adapted to provide network connectivity, wherein the appliance is adapted to communicate with the network, wherein the appliance is adapted to communicate with another appliance on the network, wherein the communicator is configured to transmit at least one sensor data indicative of operation of the appliance and the level of the consumable product used by the appliance during the operation cycle to one or more of the network and the another appliance;
• providing a host system connected to the network and adapted to receive, via the network, the at least one sensor data indicative of usage of the appliance and the level of the consumable product used by the appliance during the operation cycle and to transmit, via the network, computer readable instructions from a device coupled to the host system and adapted to display, via the network, data indicative of usage of the appliance to a user on the user interface;
• tracking a pattern of the usage of the appliance and the level of the consumable product used by the appliance during the operation cycle;
• and
• providing a recommendation based on the pattern of the usage of the appliance and the level of the consumable product used by the appliance during the operation cycle to improve the operation cycle of the appliance.